User:.Shelly./essays/No Regrets: My Ordeals With PCA


 * Alright, alright. Don't get your knickers in a wad. I'm not here to talk smack about anyone. I am here merely on a nostalgia trip, and to explain myself.


 * Yes, I feel the need to explain myself, just explain why I did everything I did. Because, from what I've seen, a few people had the wrong idea about me before I left the project.


 * Project Drama, as some call it. It's a suitable name, really. But before I get into that, I feel it's suitable to simply go back to the very start, when I first joined this wiki to begin with.

Before the Project

 * My time on the wiki before PCA was short. I joined, in fact, for one reason only.
 * To change the eye colour on Dovewing's page from gold to blue.


 * Silly, I know, but a mission is a mission. In any case, I made an account for this express purpose, because I noted that contributors without accounts got their edits reverted much more often that registered users did. Although it still took me almost a year to get that particular edit to stick... but that's a story for another time.


 * I stuck around a bit, editing here and there, trying to find my footing. Even though I was 19 at the time, just graduated from high school and preparing for college, I was unsure of myself on a new website. I noted all the drawings of cats in every article and the personal ones that people made for themselves. I made myself one... and man, was it horrid.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110628230916/warriors/images/archive/2/2f/20110726152513!Shellyheart.png Just look at that fail! Triangle stripes! Flat shading! Ew!


 * Regardless of how horrible this... thing... was, someone noticed it. And suddenly I found a post on my talk page, telling me I should join project charart.


 * And so, bored, with nothing to do for the summer and enjoying the prospect of being part of a creative group, I obliged.