A mixture of work and family meant I basically took an extended Holiday break from almost all social media. Which was actually good for me, I feel like I'm coming back to it refreshed. I got the games I wanted for Christmas, and a new laptop! It's not a gaming laptop (got a PC for that) I mainly wanted it to get into typing up fic again (I tend to handwrite a lot lol I am drowning in notebooks) but it still runs my older games like a dream, plus Stellaris and MTG Arena ^^

And now it is officially 2019 and by some miracle the Earth did now spontaneously end at the turn of the year. Or get stuck at 23:59. My favourite thing to say in the weeks leading up to it was that 2018 had been stuck in some form of time anomaly and had been AT LEAST 3 years long.

But we survived! That is the important bit. Also I have an idea for the next OC of the Day but it's like, 1am and I'm about to fall asleep so... yeah. Hope everyone had a good last couple of weeks!!

Whooo okay, I had a busy weekend and couldn't really think of how to start up this ongoing series, but when I was talking about it to my boyfriend he said, "Wouldn't it make sense for the first character you talk about to be THE first?" So, that's what this is. Kind of.




(How the hell do images even work on Dreamwidth send help)

I'm not sure if I can say for certain Renée was my first ever OC. I first got into fandom when I was 8, when I wasn't actually IN fandom, but I was doing fanart and fanfic at that time without even knowing those words, and of course my single-digit fanart days are a faraway blur to me.
But Renée has always been a constant. If she isn't my oldest, then she has most definitely won the title of longest surviving OC. If memory serves correct she was originally called Renée Nightingale, and then down the line it changed over and over again until I finally landed on Sevard, but her design has stayed pretty much the same throughout that, always with that signature long scarlett hair.

She's also never really jumped fandoms. I was introduced to Zoids by my dad, and Zoids: Chaotic Century was on an obscure cartoon channel we had at like 6:30am every morning, running through all of Chaotic Century and Guardian Force twice over until it, quite sadly, disappeared. It was in this haze of being 9 or 10 years old, and getting up even before my parents, getting my cereal, and nestling on the sofa with my blanket to watch some Zoids, that I started writing regularly. Once they caught onto my love for the anime, most of my Christmases and Birthdays would involve at least one Zoids model kits. Making those kits, and acting out stories with them with my father, creating our own wacky 'episodes' of the anime, is a very strong and happy childhood memory for me. Renée ended up getting created as my own character for those 'episodes', and not long after that I started writing my own fanfic about her. Given how much Zoids meant to me and how long this love for it lasted, Renée not only became my first proper fanfic character, but had the time to become a solid part of that world. She BELONGS with Zoids, that's her home, and it feels wrong to remove her from it.

I have a lot to thank Renée for, she's taught me a lot. Not just about writing fanfic, but about growing as a person. She's changed a lot in terms of character over the years, in a way her ups and downs have mirrored my own. I've managed to get a good hold on her character very recently, though. I introduced my boyfriend to Zoids while we were talking about childhood a few years back, and now he loves it almost as much as I do. It truly revitalised my love for this character, and I found myself missing her, so I came back. Updated her look, her name, her story. But I still haven't shared it yet. For one the Zoids scene is pretty quiet these days, even with the new anime knocking about (which I still haven't looked at) but more than that... it's extremely personal to me. Despite how many characters and stories I have in my head, I wouln't consider a lot of it personal. Close to my heart, yes, but Renée and the story that's happened around her is a VERY personal thing. In a way, she's the culmination of my 14 years of writing, and she very much feels like a part of me.

So, thank you, Renée Sevard. For making me love writing. For helping me become the person I am today.

(Bonus; I recently made her in my modded Fallout 4 and she came out looking perfect.)

So after it being missing for at least a couple of month my little bother emerges from his bedroom with a 3Ds charger in hand and says to me, "I think this is yours???"

I've only been looking for it for over a month;; My Fire Emblem Fates games and Pokemon Moon have been leering at me to finish them.

Might dig out Animal Crossing too, I need something to mellow me out.

Since I'm finally starting to get a feel for this site, I think it's about time I do a proper introduction of myself and what I'm all about.

So, hello! I am Ally, but I also go by Geek. I am someangrygeek from Tumblr, but no one will recognise that name because I literally just use my Tumblr to lurk for good meme content. As you can probably guess, I've set up here on Dreamwidth following the amazing disaster of the Great Tumblr Purge, y'know, as a precaution.

Since Dreamwidth seems more about engaging with people than just lurking like I normally do, I'm gonna see if I can't be a bit more sociable, rather than the anxiety-riddled meme gremlin I've been for basically the whole seven years I've been active on the Internet. That being said, onto the kinda stuff I'll be likely to post;

- Possibly just random little rambles of things I might think are interesting or funny? I do this one to my friends on Discord a lot. I'm not sure if they also find it funny or if they're worried about me.

- Fanfic. Okay, I enjoy writing fanfic but it is ENTIRELY for self-gratification and my own personal amusement. I haven't really ever shared my fanfic online, in fact half the stuff I write I write by hand, because I enjoy the feel of writing with a pen. Were I to start posting any of my fic here, be warned, I have about 234972 OCs that I've created, cultivated, redesigned and reimagined over the 10+ years I've been writing for fun, and most of the fic I do write usually has a shippy flavour of OC/OC or OC/Canon Character I Feel Like Exploring. Like I said, self-indulgent stuff.

- If all goes well on the fanfic front I... miiiiight dip my toes into writing NSFW stuff? I do write it, but again I have NEVER shared it, and that would take a huge boost in confidence for me to take the step and do it. It looks like Dreamwidth has options to age restrict specific posts (correct me if I'm wrong) so I can keep my account relatively open and then on the fateful day of me no longer being embarrassed at my own writing, I'll give it a shot. But those are distant days ahead.

That's pretty much it, I think. As you might've noticed, I have interest in a LOT of fandoms, but the way that works is I intensely focus on one, maybe two fandoms at a time for a few months, and just cycle through all of them. You can probably tell what my focus is by what I'm posting. Right now, I am three weeks into a newfound obsession with Magic: The Gathering. Still not great at the card game but playing on MTG Arena is fun, and I adore reading the stories behind it, I find the settings interesting and the characters are great.

Okay! I think that's it for now. It's getting late here in the UK, but I'm feeling good about this new chapter in my internet escapades. Let's have some fun.