So same here. And absolutely my gateway drug into fanfic--I used to write for the Neopian Times (though I rarely finished anything, exactly) and I always hung with the NT crowd over at a forum called the NTWF... wonder if it still exists. Great place to grow up in, back in the day--I really credit it for expanding my worldview beyond what my parents were telling me I should be. Really helped me grow as a person--and if that sounds sappy, I'm sorry, but it's true.
I left when the site started coming down really hard on the writers, regulating everything with an austere and probably arbitrary set of rules that was never (to my knowledge) revealed to the Neopian public. I wonder how that ended. There were a lot of really creative minds stifled by that, I know--and yeah, dramatic. But Neopets was more or less my life in the way that my internet existence is now.
I have so many characters, so many ideas. I miss them. I wonder if I can bring them into a different universe, maybe their own--or if Neopia's is worth revisting.
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I left when the site started coming down really hard on the writers, regulating everything with an austere and probably arbitrary set of rules that was never (to my knowledge) revealed to the Neopian public. I wonder how that ended. There were a lot of really creative minds stifled by that, I know--and yeah, dramatic. But Neopets was more or less my life in the way that my internet existence is now.
I have so many characters, so many ideas. I miss them. I wonder if I can bring them into a different universe, maybe their own--or if Neopia's is worth revisting.