So. Looking back, I realized that it has been almost a full three years since I joined theO. I know a lot of people have been on here longer than that, but a lot has happened in those three years. So I was just going back and thinking about how much I've changed. Change is weird. Be prepared for a long random rant post.

The thing is, I actually wasn't an otaku when I joined theO. I got a DSi when I was fourteen, and then I joined flipnote hatena and learned to make flipnotes. I started out pretty sucky. My earliest flips were kind of laughable. I got pretty good, though. I was never as good as the best of them, but then, I didn't have a whole lot of time because I was in school and had other stuff to focus on. Anyway, I made some friends on there, and one of my online friends switched from Hatena to theO, so I made an account here so I could still talk to them. Then flipnote Hatena for DSi shut down because DSi was going obsolete and all...which I think is actually pretty sucky. I think they should have left it up so that even if we couldn't post, we could still see old flips and keep in touch with old friends...I mean, they just took the whole thing down. But whatever. Anyway, I wasn't an otaku at first, but Hatena had actually introduced me to Vocaloid, and to anime as an art form. (At first I only looked at it for the cool art, not for the story and the culture). So after a few months of being on here, I decided to go to a bookstore and get some manga. And now, here I am, years later. It's just weird to think back, you know? Things were so different back then. I've been in a weird mood recently, which explains this post, so yeah.