Hey everyone, as you can imagine, I'm new here.
Some things about me:
I'm 26 years old, married, living in the PNW, but I grew up in Atlanta, Ga. I have a Bachelor's degree in English, with an emphasis in journalism. In my spare time (basically, when I'm not working), I'm trying to learn Japanese, write two books, game, freelance in design, read, and hangout with friends. One of my books is my first try at fiction (beyond Fanfiction) in about 15 years. My other book is nonfiction. I primarily write - and have throughout college - creative nonfiction and poetry. It's probably best to state that my "genre" is New Journalism.
Other random things: My favorite color is blue, I'm left-handed, I'm a Ravenclaw (Slytherclaw, even - I run a community site for Ravenclaws).
I play Nintendo and Xbox the most. My favorite games are a long, long list, but I can definitively say: Animal Crossing, Fantasy Life, Paper Mario, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Batman: Arkham (I still need to finish "Arkham Knight" shhhhh), Minecraft, The Sims, Kingdom Hearts.
Animal Crossing things:
I started playing AC when I was 12 years old, when the GameCube game released around 2001 or 2002. Back then I had a town called atlanta, with the name jennifer. I did not know how to capitalize with the in-game keyboard until later. My best friends were Spike and Mitzi. They were the first two I met in town. Being a little punk/goth kid growing up, I related to Spike. And then Mitzi was just the sweetest little bean.
Several years later, I am still playing the series, though being an adult means it's much harder to keep up with the wonders of a game like AC when I want to, but I've been making myself take some chill time to just let my brain relax and explore my town for 30 minutes to an hour once or twice a week again. It's been wonderful. My town in AC:NL is Yeux (les yeux means eyes in French, and at the time I was taking French, and so I played off of the same themes I had used for a previous town that were based off of the movie Coraline). Since moving onto to newer versions of the series, and because they retired Spike (but yey for the RV update), my best friends are now Poppy, Mitzi, Sterling and Avery. There are several characters who are lovely and adorable like Bluebear, etc., but those four really stole my heart. I had a running gag on my AC Tumblr that I was going to marry Sterling one day.
That's all I can think of right now. But hi!
Some things about me:
I'm 26 years old, married, living in the PNW, but I grew up in Atlanta, Ga. I have a Bachelor's degree in English, with an emphasis in journalism. In my spare time (basically, when I'm not working), I'm trying to learn Japanese, write two books, game, freelance in design, read, and hangout with friends. One of my books is my first try at fiction (beyond Fanfiction) in about 15 years. My other book is nonfiction. I primarily write - and have throughout college - creative nonfiction and poetry. It's probably best to state that my "genre" is New Journalism.
Other random things: My favorite color is blue, I'm left-handed, I'm a Ravenclaw (Slytherclaw, even - I run a community site for Ravenclaws).
I play Nintendo and Xbox the most. My favorite games are a long, long list, but I can definitively say: Animal Crossing, Fantasy Life, Paper Mario, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Batman: Arkham (I still need to finish "Arkham Knight" shhhhh), Minecraft, The Sims, Kingdom Hearts.
Animal Crossing things:
I started playing AC when I was 12 years old, when the GameCube game released around 2001 or 2002. Back then I had a town called atlanta, with the name jennifer. I did not know how to capitalize with the in-game keyboard until later. My best friends were Spike and Mitzi. They were the first two I met in town. Being a little punk/goth kid growing up, I related to Spike. And then Mitzi was just the sweetest little bean.
Several years later, I am still playing the series, though being an adult means it's much harder to keep up with the wonders of a game like AC when I want to, but I've been making myself take some chill time to just let my brain relax and explore my town for 30 minutes to an hour once or twice a week again. It's been wonderful. My town in AC:NL is Yeux (les yeux means eyes in French, and at the time I was taking French, and so I played off of the same themes I had used for a previous town that were based off of the movie Coraline). Since moving onto to newer versions of the series, and because they retired Spike (but yey for the RV update), my best friends are now Poppy, Mitzi, Sterling and Avery. There are several characters who are lovely and adorable like Bluebear, etc., but those four really stole my heart. I had a running gag on my AC Tumblr that I was going to marry Sterling one day.
That's all I can think of right now. But hi!
I've also heard great things about the host, VBulletin, so it's nice to see it in action on a forum I'm using. May pool some many for my own site and move to it one day. 
