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Oh my goodness, I do not think Vindrea did the emoticons, but I could be wrong! I do know she had a few items that she made herself and instead of Firn recreating them to fit the style of the site at the time, she left them exactly how Vindrea made them and will never remake them to fit with the current site either as they are not her art work, which I really respect Firn on that, not messing with someone else's art work. She made the Pet Magpie, Magpie Top, Magpie wings and headwings. She also made the Midnight Rose set and I think, but am not for sure, the Midnight Fairy items as well. I actually had to search through my invo to find them as I could not remember their names. Lol. Vindrea and another old friend of mine on here absolutely love Magpies because they are beautiful, smart and fascinating creatures, I actually learned a lot about them due to those two. Lol They are unique and gorgeous items.
Well when we had to save up for months it wasn't because things are expensive like they are now, but they were to us at the time. Think of how money is now verse in like 1900. MT were the only TT items, actually I don't think the TT was even a real shop yet. Lol. But you had the option to buy them by donating to the site (Fair Coins were not a thing yet) or with 10k food points. It was expensive for us at the time be cause the main source of food was from polls and talking. There were very few Knuffel available, and not how you know them today, along with no games, contests, etc. So you got a set added to your account for every $2.50 you donated. When things started to change to how they are now it was very exciting! The first shops and items coming out, the first sets added to the TT That weren't a monthly item, Fairy Coins, Queen items, it was all super exciting and great to see it growing and becoming more how Firn wanted it. Oh! Donation Perks, so like I said FC wasn't a thing for a good bit, but once they were you would get 1fc for every $2.50, just like the MT before them, but you didn't get any donation perks, or even knew about them, unless you donated $50. They were a secret and we were forbidden from talking about the amount you had to donate to receive them. Like i said, at first we didn't know they existed, you just all of a sudden started getting something added to your account and a personal letter from the queen when you donated the right amount for the month. After they were know we still did not know what the item was until someone donated the amount to find out and were still not allowed to talk about the donation amount to receive it. So, needless today, I was surprised when I came back and saw that there are actually different levels of perks now, along with you know what they are and how much to donate for them. The first Queen items are very rare and very treasured. There's a lot of old items that it's basically impossible to get now, I myself missed out on some, spent years saving and hunting and was still never able to get my hands on them. They were given away for small things Firn loved, such as for her favorite band there is a shirt, wearable thought bubble, and ablack cat on your head. The cat you only got if you knew about and participated in a private drawing comp she issued in her thread at the time which was to draw the black cat from the band. I'm not sure how you got the shirt and emot, I have the emot, but have never been able to get the cat or shirt. There's also the pet Jellyfish and two matching backgrounds because her hangout used to be "The jellyfish Domination!" Lol and if you were part of the crew you got those items. Oh there's also a rare background from her band as well. She also has her own Kimono and Fan named after her that are gorgeous, very very hard to get. She also made a birthday hat for one of close friends, at the time, and our favorite MOD. They had a falling out and she has since just changed the name of the item so his name is no longer in it. She also made a bDay hat for the lead singer of her Fav band at the time, the same one with the cat and other items, so it's fun being around so long that you know where all these crazy random items came from. Lol. Not knowing the story most people don't care for the items or even know about them.
Well, I didn't start spending that much until FC came out and then I would hoard and/or sell them. Before FC I would donate $50/mo to get the Queen item. She started doing the polls to change items, after she had changed some and users, myself included, got very upset. Then, she was allowing everyone to vote on it, but it still really upset us with some items as the very old ones only a few of us on the site had and we did not want them changed, but those who did not own the item and were newer to the site did. We suggested that when it came to the old and very rare items only those who owned them should be allowed to vote rather than just everyone when they did not and would not ever own them. She denied this. So despite none of us who owned the items wanting them changed they were still changed. She lost a huge portion of the old members and most active people on the site after that. Donations plummeted as we were the ones mainly keeping the site alive.
Then of course there's the huge inflation that has happened so most items are ridiculously priced, gold is worth little to nothing, fairy coins are rare and over priced. We worked hard to prevent that from happening as old members, Firn as well, we would not allow Fairy Coin values to be more than 20k max, preferably lower. If fairy coins started to raise too high we'd donate more than normal when possible to get more out to the users and drive the prices down.
I used to be on Gaia a lot as well, I had been there since 2005 so shortly after they opened as well. Lol. I was also part of a couple other avatar sites, but they have since shut down. Two of them were created by people that left here! One of which being the guy with the birthday had. His name was Maus and he was awesome, but yet, after they had their falling out he decided to make his own site where he could make the changes like he thought Firn needed to. It was a great site and I loved it very much, but sadly it did not gain in popularity as people thought they would have to choose between him ro Firn and chose to stay here. That was not the case at all though. You could be a part of both sites no problem. Firn forbid speaking of him for awhile here, which I understand, as I said they were good friends so I am sure she felt hurt and betrayed and just didn't want to discuss it. As for him on his site, he never said an ill word about Firn other than that she was stubborn and he was just trying to help. So, even though they did not speak anymore, they were respectful about it instead of becoming petty. Maus's site closed due to school, work, and life becoming too much.
Oh my gosh, I never went to college myself, but that sounds crazy! I don't mind writing huge papers, even those that require research, I actually enjoy researching and learning new things, but that just seems crazy to have to do so much for such a large part of your grade all at once! They really should have spaced those in my opinion, it'd give their students more time to understand and be happy with their work rather than rush through it and hopefully grasp half of what they read and had to write about. That's just frustrating and rude. Lol
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drama sounds rough though. i've been put off of sites entirely due to drama before. i like how firn can be chatted to like any other member, she is aloof but not that aloof, but omg drama with her would be scary. i'm glad she now has polls and opinion threads whenever she's thinking of redrawing an item so that people can give their input about whether they like it better after it's redrawn or not. why didn't she do that when she first started redrawing? (i assumed she always had these opinion checks, but then i haven't been here for long, relatively speaking. so i wouldn't know).
i knew she made the emoticons here, (right? i'm fairly sure) but i didn't know she made items too!
what did you find to spend it on? would you buy a lot of multiples? or just hoard fc?
