My goodness it's been 18 years I've been a member on this site!

To think I grew to love this place when I almost destroyed it by accident... well become a mere nuisance by accident... ^^;

STORY TIME!!

So 18 years ago at the age of 17, I was under another account name at the time... Posting my first submission on the site but something went wrong and the submission duplicated itself a lot... turns out, I left something on my keyboard by accident over the [ENTER] key which made more than three pages of duplicate submissions...
(At the time, I wasn't aware of what caused the issue as I thought something was wrong with my computer at the time. I was able to find out what the problem was because the same issue happened a couple of days afterwards when I noticed I left a stack of printer paper on my keyboard by accident... again. But thankfully it wasn't as bad as the first time. )
Cue many others getting angry at me and mistaken me for a spammer or a troll. It didn't help that at that time, submission deletion was disabled at that time for maintenance...
Thank goodness I got that mess cleared up and the account was banned and I started fresh under this name here. And from there it was smooth sailing...
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Well mostly... that year after I turned 18 I had made another issue but this time it was all my fault...

STORY TIME 2!!

There's an artist that some may know by the name of Tomcat. He was my first art mentor. We got along pretty well due to our common interest in gorillas. He was also Alpha's first fan and he wanted to include Alpha in his comic series that he had out at the time. At first I was excited but I was conflicted at the time because I was still figuring out my sexuality at the time and was afraid of being found out by family and the like about it. So I negotiated with Tomcat to make Alpha's inclusion a "What if" type of thing that decayed into Alpha's removal from the comic and created a sore spot for both of us for a bit... yeah. Pardon my French, Past!Konana is a dumbass! :P
But I eventually talked to him, admitted my wrongdoing and made amends with Tomcat. We're still cool now. I just wish he would get a BlueSky account or another IM account so I can chat with him again! Lol

So 2007 was a pretty rough year for me as I was getting used to being online and talking to other people. Not to mention the mishaps along the way but, you live and you learn.
Plus I've grown to be a lot different than how I was 18 years ago! Lol

I hope I can make my next 18 even better...
If I'll still be here at that time or this site will still be here at that time... who knows?

All I can do is just focus on what I can do now~