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by Ylanne on Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:17 pm
I joined this site in September 2008, originally under the username "Treali Storm." (I changed usernames around a year later, maybe a bit less, to "Ylanne," and it's been that way ever since.) Between 2009 and 2012, I served various roles on staff -- I was among the very first crop of Mentors, and then became one of the first Mentor Team Leads (and served among the longest stints as a mentor/scholar during my tenure). Later I was a Global Moderator and a Scholar.
My thing for a long time was crime writing (very similarly to ViceVersus -- who was originally SatoDragonFist{TAS} and then just Sato before becoming ViceVersus -- though her shtick was more noir and mine was maybe a bit different in exact flavor). I've always considered myself much more of a forums person than a chat person, but I ended up deeply embedded in the Multiverse (mostly through chat) for several years as well.
My first major roleplay on this site was Disappearing Children, which died after many months of sustained activity. My best, longest running roleplay that I created was When the Lion Wakes, which sadly ultimately also lapsed into dead-status after a couple years of activity. Some of the posts folks wrote up in WTLW were incredible.
In the Multiverse, I took on the reigns of what was then the Terran Liberation Front (that was Prose's thing before she disappeared) and then built up the Terran National Government, so that was also a thing. There have been some really fun times with the NRP scene.
Over the years, I've met a number of folks whose writing I've truly and deeply admired for the beautiful prose it's always been -- everyone from Ronin (also known as Nemo) to EreAi (also known as Ellipse) and ViceVersus and Parabola (also known as Script) and Alasund De'Astio. More importantly, though, I've met a number of people who are not only fabulous writers but are fantastic human beings who I've continued to be friends with in the years I've known them -- I ended up *in* Izoi and Barney's wedding (barney_fife used to be admiralmcgregor), and have met up with several other Gateway folks in meatspace since (Ellipse and Ronin among them) and keep in touch with many, including DemiKara (also known as Karato). That is definitely one of the best things about this place -- it's certainly taken on a number of undesirable attributes in recent years, but I remember Gateway fondly as a place where I have always had a solid community. (Community = complete with drama and tension and fights as much as friendships and epic roleplay and conversations on real world, cutting issues.)
(*I know I missed a lot of people here, because over the years, I've had the opportunity to interact with so many lovely people in so many different ways. This place has been incredibly important to me over the last several years, especially because of those connections.)
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy
“The only way to survive is to take care of each other.”
― Grace Lee Boggs
“every day is another chance to practice living out the values that matter most to us. to be our best selves. to be the legacy we want to leave.”
― Mia Mingus
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