[Chloe]

I try to be active but right now, I tend to have bouts where I'll pop on then poof. :} Tis the Chloe way.. pretty sure most of my neopets are ready to mutiny against me.. besides maybe Voltron.. he gets a cool car.. on the moon.. while wearing robot clothes.. don't ask what Chloe has been drinking when she dressed him that day..

I am a bit more active on Gaia cause working on putting a rpg together, just been busy with a few rl things so been delayed in getting much more done the last two days.

Solia was all right, but it was a site that felt cliquey.. I got lucky when I first joined... years ago, I was adopted into a 'Solia family' so I wasn't really on my own getting to know things. But sadly those users eventually left and now if your not one of the richer users there with lots of sparkly items, then most stay away from you, lol. And yea, they didn't care if an item went missing. The pose I had missing costed me nearly 100 dollars.. :(

Not too sure if many sites are going to try, unless a site probably gets the backing from a kickstarter, I highly doubt many will have the spare cash to support what a site needs. I actually was a mod on an avatar site that was being worked on and the owner ended up abandoning it in the end.. so yea, it's not something you just go into without at least a basic idea of things.

And if I remember right, Gaia started to release recoloured items of hard to get items.. new colour devil tails, ninja headbands, etc. Those were always so hard to get, so were Cocos and Kikis.. Now there's pink, blue, yellow cocos and not sure what colors of kikis.. just too many items are unlisted, lol.. there's one I'm trying to find and it's proving to be a right pain in the arse since the only seller doesn't log on that often.

and I found avatar sites while in High School myself through my parents actually begged me to go out and have a life. The thing was, none of my friends drove and none lived near me besides two, so making plans without a willing parent to drive us to the movies.. the mall.. etc was hard to do. On top, most of us didn't have the cash to do those things.. most of us lived in tiny towns or out in the boondocks where there was maybe one or two places to work and most of them didn't want to deal with antsy teenagers. Let's also say, my parents came much more strict in my High School years, I had little say in clothing - if the item didn't please my aunt, I wasn't getting it unless I had my own money. Anything like tank tops, those cute little crop tops, etc, I only bought if I had the money.. was the same with anything Anime related.. my Aunt was fine with buying me like Babysitter's Club, Fear Street or VC Andrews but if I wanted a manga or an anime tape, which she felt was more for kids and not someone my age through most of my friends were hard nut anime fans. I think my grandmother bought me one copy of Yu Yu Hakuso and only cause it was a limited edition copy and the store only had one copy.
Where my parents were a little more lenient on the Anime side of things. I got to watch Akira, was probably around 11 or 12 at the time, X/1999 the movie and then my parents just let me stay up late on Saturdays for InuYasha, Cowboy Bebop, etc.
My dad even went into the local video store and bought me a copy of Bastard.. lol.. I was like 16 or 17 at the time and believe the guidelines said 18+ but the cashier sold him the tape and he handed it right to me but cause I was a regular and they knew that was my parent, what could they do to be honest?
And my parents actually bought me alcohol before I was legal age.. I always had a bottle of Smirnoff in the fridge and was welcome to a beer Friday or Saturday as long as I stayed on our property. So really, I had no need to go out and bribe older teenagers to get me and my friends booze, I had full access to it at my house and my parents blessing. Plus to be honest, once most of us graduated High School, we lost touch with each other which is what happens, I think the friends I really keep in touch with is my college and uni friends but again, we have separate lives and due to covid, how we hang out has changed and all. Maybe one day, we'll agree to go back to our Friday/Saturday and Sunday gaming days at each other houses but right now, two of us want to get into work and the third, I have no idea if he's in the UK or back in the US, lol.