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Here I go, once again, dredging up my dark and embarrassing past. It was around the year 1999-2000. Not long after I got over my Pokemon craze, it was quickly replaced by an undying obsession with Sailormoon in general, and with Sailorsaturn in particular. Indeed, my first website was a shrine devoted to Sailorsaturn; it was first entitled The Tomoe Mansion and later renamed Silent Destiny. It was a crappy little site, initially built using Tripod’s sitebuilder. I don’t remember the process of actually learning HTML for myself, but I do remember that once I did, I moved to Angelfire, which, at the time, was still offering ad-free hosting.

Even more embarrassing, however, was the fact that I had taken up RPing. I discovered online RPs via Yahoo! Groups, and eventually found one to call my own. Naturally, I played Hotaru, but, perhaps due to my lack of creativity, I also played a whole slew of original Hotaru look-a-likes (long lost twin sisters and the like). I don’t remember what our group called ourselves, but it was probably the first true internet “clique” that I became a member of. We were all internet newbies, with our ugly websites and our Yahoo! Messenger accounts. We actually grew quite close, and I remember many a late-night conversation with Sara, who played Usagi, or Val, who played Haruka.