Thread: Mel's Oversharing Time (AMA)

Hey Blue moon! I'm bored, at work and have always wanted to do an AMA ask me anything. Some of you may know me, most won't but that's ok! I like to talk and am not super shy about info about myself. Not nearly as reclusive as I was when I was a teenager and earlier 20's. So here I am, asking you to ask me things! I only request that 1. Please ask only one to two questions per person. 2. Please read other questions before asking your own, just in case it had been asked prior. 3. Don't be shy! I'll compile the questions and answer them later this evening, posting the full response list as an edit to this initial post! Ask away! See more Heytherelittlebear asks What makes you smile? A few things have the ability to make me smile almost against my will. The smelltaste of hot chocolatemarshmallowsbubblegum and a hot bowl of chili on a cold day. Nonfood things that make me smile are rodents and cows The cutest things ever. There's also a few people in my life who always have me smiling ear to ear whenever I'm around them My father, grandfather and my best friend. I also have to say Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends 80's cartoon will always make me smile. I adore that stupid show so much. Sithlordofsnark asks How long have you been rping? Oh man. Has to be 15 years or so now. Baby steps into role playing was DD with a couple of friends last year of junior high and up through high school. Mid way through highschool was when I started roleplaying online where I could. I remember doing so quite a bit on Adventure Quest and Gaia forums as well as a few other sites similar to Blue Moon Albeit without adult content. Once I turned 17 I began to turn to 'the dark side' of role playing and have had loads of fun with it. There are times I feel I'm not quite as good at it as I'd like. Feels like my skills as a writer have waned or just stagnated. Could just be me being hard on myself. Sailing Sun asks If you could go back in and warm myself ofhelp prepare forchange something so it wouldn't happen in the future, what would it be and why? There's a few things, though incidentally the ones I'd warn myself about wouldn't be the ones many would think. For example I grew up in a verbally and physically abusive household. My stepfather was a grade A prick. There wouldn't really be a way to get myself out of that situation until the events that did unfold finally happened. Incidentally, I ended up in an even more profusely verbally abusive situation than before which didn't really solve any of my issues. I'd honestly take being beaten over verbal abuse any day. Bruises and such heal. Mental ones? Not so much. Anyway, I think there would be two things I'd do though changing just the first might solve the other on its own. I'd first tell myself to do better in school. Granted my issues in school were due to a shoddy home life and that shoddiness spilled over into my academics. So I'd do what I could during my time trip to help get my younger self in track so I'd have a less mundane and frustrating future. The second thing would be to convince myself not to date the woman I did. I don't know if I could since not even my dad or best friends could stop me from blindly following my heart. I'd rather have remained a relationship virgin for the coming years than go through what I had. A relationship so bad I've not been in one since, unable to bring myself to try. But if I got my academics straight, I could have possibly gone to college somewhere else, which would have kept me away so I couldn't fall into that bear trap. XD