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. HORSE OF PHONY PAST - FREE RAFFLE .
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Brush n' Grow Earth and Phonywear ♀ Horse of Phony Past
A suspiciously familiar-looking Earth Phony...
You can claim up to 1 ticket per day! Yes, that means you can claim multiple tickets if you remember to drop by each day.
All you need to do is to tell us about a moment in your Gaia experience that stood out to you in whatever way for each ticket!
Ticket Price - FREE
. Ticket-Claiming Instructions .
♥ We will be vending tickets until 11.59pm PST, 17th January 2021
♥ Everybody can claim up to 1 ticket per day for this raffle.
♥ You cannot choose the ticket numbers as we are recording them down in the order they are posted.
♥ Please note the drawing will not take place at end time and will be rolled later.
♥ Winner will be announced and @ed in-thread. Once we have been given a suitable name, the Phony will be certed and delivered!
To claim your one (1) ticket per day, simply post in the raffle thread with the form below:
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My Gaia Memory: [ tell us about a stand-out moment in your Gaia experience! ]
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[b]My Gaia Memory:[/b] [ tell us about a stand-out moment in your Gaia experience! ]
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My Gaia Memory: Not to start on a downer, but the first time I got hacked was a miserable beginning but eventually led me to my current naming convention
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My Gaia Memory: I first joined Gaia for the B/C forums. My first pet was in an Amazon Cougar style guild.
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My Gaia Memory: Gaia was my first forum based site and I was so confused about what you were supposed to do on it. If I hadn't of found the B/C forums I likely would have given up on Gaia as there wasn't much else to do on the site at the time.
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My Gaia Memory: UM, my college roommate introducing me to the concept of adoptables
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My Gaia Memory: My very first b/c Holiday gram was from hy-tech. I wasn't familiar with the b/c forum or the concept of adoptables yet, and suddenly I found myself questioning what was happening and why was the art so dang beautiful. <3
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My Gaia Memory: I first joined gaia back in 2005 and hung around the art shops doing avy art with friends before moving solely to RP guilds before finally finding the B/C about 2010 or so~
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My Gaia Memory: Sooooo many, but my favorite is doing my first gram event on Cein Isles. I think I participated in and ran that shop for almost ten years.
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My Gaia Memory: [ sending in-character grams to all my friends during holidays! ]
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My Gaia Memory: My first time roleplaying I had accidentally stumbled into a group of people roleplaying in the fishing mini game. My first time the writing i did was so awful, I still cringe about it.
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My Gaia Memory: Oh man, the time I realized I should put a space after my periods when typing more than one sentence...... I think Corn pointed it out to me?? I am Not Sure but I wouldn't be surprised. My condolences to those who attempted to read my paragraph-long posts on Gaia before I realized this.
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My Gaia Memory: When I first joined Gaia I was absolutely OBSESSED with B/Cs and would print out pictures of my pets. My first really big B/C experience was Scalla Sanctuary!
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My Gaia Memory: That time I rp'd with the same person 1v1 in a private rp for literally like 2 years
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My Gaia Memory: When I first signed up I was Racergirl for like. Two whole days before I realized you can change your user lmao
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My Gaia Memory: that one moment in matope when Maxx was asking for names for his new doe in thread and I offered the BEST name really excited about it and then SURPRISE I got to keep her!
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My Gaia Memory: The grams, man! <3333 Getting grams is something new adoptable sites just don't do. Tried explaining it to the new group and they looked at me like I had three heads. XD!!
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My Gaia Memory: I remember finding Hytech for the first time. And the absolute fun that occurred when the entire Japanese pack named their babbus with K as the first letter of all names.
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My Gaia Memory: My first experience with the b/c! I stumbled into an adoptables forum and pirates befriended me and gifted me my first adopt from a breeding. :D
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My Gaia Memory: [ back in the very beginning i used to spend hours and hours on zOMG <__> ]
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My Gaia Memory: I spent so many hours in Gaia Towns... I chatted with people! And envied the people with the shiny skin and the Kiki slippers avatar items, ahaha.
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My Gaia Memory: Do you remember when gold used to be worth something? Ha, me neither.
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My Gaia Memory: Meeting Ruri way back when at Pokemon Legacy! She's been one of my few long time gaia buds ever since. <3
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My Gaia Memory: The soul destroying anxiety from waiting for speed flatsales.
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My Gaia Memory: I remember my ultimate goal was to get a skunk style pet from every b/c I was in. Managed it in most.
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My Gaia Memory: Making Christmas gram lists... I was very, very bad at them, so I think I properly sent out grams to everyone I wanted to, like, once.
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My Gaia Memory: rping the carousels together as babies and Reaper coming straight out the blister pack acting like a brat.
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My Gaia Memory: [ meticulously coding rp journals HAHA ]
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My Gaia Memory: Laughing about coming from Neopets to Gaia Online with karma_k and then us talking about how people on Gaia thought that "cyberpets" came from Gaia Online originally.
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My Gaia Memory: Trying to run my own B/C shops...... ahahahaha...aah...lets never speak of those again....
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My Gaia Memory: Being drug into Phony with bby Hyd as a gift from Syr and Ruri <33
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My Gaia Memory: Making my first journal for a character. I commissioned art for him and everything! Such inspiration back in the day.
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My Gaia Memory: Remembering when it was prestigious to wear the ducky hat. lmaaaoooooo...!
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My Gaia Memory: [ participating in my first big shop metaplots <3 i had so much fun developing my characters and interacting with new people! ]
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My Gaia Memory: this (https://i.imgur.com/jpwJfWM.jpg). my magnum opus.
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My Gaia Memory: Selling my entire inventory just to make 3mil gold to buy a steel plated ninja head band....
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My Gaia Memory: Appreciating how way less stressful flaffles were!
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My Gaia Memory: [ Blingee culture, which is absolutely a Gaia memory ]
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My Gaia Memory: I remember when getting monthly letters was almost a status symbol. Always looking at which were worth the most.
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My Gaia Memory: When the forum events were picking teams and fighting/healing each other.
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My Gaia Memory: Having the cute og anime gaia arts
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My Gaia Memory: [ making themed matching avatars with my friends ; A ; ]
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My Gaia Memory: Peanut drawn as a peanut in the snow. I wish I could locate that image again but i have a feeling it's in my old harddrive.... this is why Peanut cannot stand the freezing cold temperatures.
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My Gaia Memory: The evolving items and what a gamble they turn out to be
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My Gaia Memory: Tektek
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My Gaia Memory: STAFF LIVE STREAM, THEY COLOURED THEIR OWN RUBBER DUCKIES AND HAD A RACE WITH ALL OF THEM
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My Gaia Memory: Trying to collect all the Demonic or Angelic items in the collection.
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My Gaia Memory: [ seeing NPC halloween costumes every year! ]
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My Gaia Memory: [ I was first introduced to gaiaonline by two close friends from my past. We used the site for our crazy rps. Anything from Sailor Moon rps to Survival Horror game rps. That was maaany years ago. lol]
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My Gaia Memory: Achievements, and watching people ruin the 'clam bakes' and 'sausage party' threads
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My Gaia Memory: I remember growing my first Phony from a babbu. It was such an accomplishment and I felt so proud of myself.
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My Gaia Memory: Spending hours finding a nice premade gaia profile layout~
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My Gaia Memory: Counting the days until your growing pet would get to the next stage. XD
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My Gaia Memory: The first time I got into the breedable pets section! My first pet was a fox that hatched from an egg!
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My Gaia Memory: [ playing around with in-character mules! ]
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My Gaia Memory: chuck norris' red scarf item was pretty hype and sought after for years -- dont ask me how to spell that item... chuku norisu? chyakunors? dkjshfdksjf idr lmao
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My Gaia Memory: Getting into my first BC, Isle of Tiansha~ ah memories there
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My Gaia Memory: Winning my first writing contest for a pet in the Breedables section!
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My Gaia Memory: Winning my first opening event raffle! What a good feeling, getting one of the first pets at a place
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My Gaia Memory: Getting the coding in and done for a signature image map before Gaia said we couldn't do that anymore. XD
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My Gaia Memory: Getting dragged from the rp forums into the breedables forums by a friend who outright bought a custom pet of my most played character 'Tristam'
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My Gaia Memory: [ religiously buying every 'fan of...' sweater from the gold shops :D ]
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My Gaia Memory: Finally getting at Lab 305 pet.
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My Gaia Memory: When I first joined a B/C shop, in 2007, and instantly made a new friend c:
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My Gaia Memory: I was gifted a Lanzer doll? not that it's something fancy to have. i was a lanzer fan back in the days lmao.
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My Gaia Memory: My first every Phony, Golden Showers. He was a contest win and I entered a joke entry for the lolz and ig the judges liked it because I won. <3
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My Gaia Memory: the first time I was 'rich' and able to afford a cosplay at a shop I really liked~ xD
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My Gaia Memory: Winning my first ever semi-custom (I had no idea what that even meant back then!)
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My Gaia Memory: [ coloring on other people's bases!! ]
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My Gaia Memory: Making sure each pet was resized and matching for all certs before the big cert dump.
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My Gaia Memory: Somehow finding my way from neopets to gaia cause it was a more 'mature' site
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My Gaia Memory: was given avatar art drawn on a paperplate and on a sticky paper/sticky note
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My Gaia Memory: My first fully evolved B/C pet. She was a first in the cougar guild.
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My Gaia Memory: Stumbling upon Its Snowing Cats and Dogs, one of the first few b/cs i joined that holds a special place in my heart.
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My Gaia Memory: Making a game out of trying to find all the shops Birvan did lineart for before they left Gaia.
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My Gaia Memory: getting character art of my ocs!
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My Gaia Memory: Way before I came to the bc, every Gaia run event there would be a group of artists that made an art freebie thread. The thrill of trying to keep up with several conversations in a thread that jumped 10+ pages a minute plus doodle people with cool avatars. Fun and crazy times.
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My Gaia Memory: [ the saturn color scheme <3 ]
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My Gaia Memory: Being a 'bouncer' at a few pet shops, which was just vetting people's accounts
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My Gaia Memory: I was obsessed with the melty and bugberry colour schemes
(notetoself this is the jan 5 post incase brain meltsdown)
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My Gaia Memory: Scara gifting me Bluebell doggo when I was still new, my first phony pet <3
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My Gaia Memory: winning Spring Fling, my first phony!
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My Gaia Memory: When the cartoon MLP FIM was just about the air and we had little to no information and Jun was already drawing them. XD!!
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My Gaia Memory: [ making a tiny refuge thread in the chaos of sitewide events for myself and my b/c friends ]
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My Gaia Memory: The sheer amount of 'bar' theme rp threads in the rp forum
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@Ruriska 's Lullaby. I was so happy.
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My Gaia Memory: coming into the b/c shops like a noobie newbie and winning a pirate pony! ahhhhhhhh something along the lines of bombs away! game thread title!
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My Gaia Memory: Winning Hyd's jelly from a game where I jumped into a tub of cider - so I named the jelly cider XD
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My Gaia Memory: Trying to think of new ideas and themes for B/C events.
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My Gaia Memory: opening my first art shop and actually getting customers~ lol I think I've improved since then. xD
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My Gaia Memory: [ pages and pages of dice game ]
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My Gaia Memory: Running an avy art shop with three of my friends
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My Gaia Memory: Trying to juggle between real life and Gaia life. XD
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My Gaia Memory: Logging in and finding you had PMs! lol It was kind of exciting. It didn't happen that often for me. xD Usually it meant something good.
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My Gaia Memory: Gaia events themselves. My favorites were the ones where the NPCs would quote users with silly things to say.
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My Gaia Memory: [ long, long ago, browsing the world map one square at a time,,, ]
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My Gaia Memory: coloring pets with a mouse ong never again
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My Gaia Memory: How fast pages would fly by
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My Gaia Memory: [ when paw bases came out!! ]
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My Gaia Memory: cyo plush season and coloring them as gifts for ppl!
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My Gaia Memory: Chatterbox giveaways! by rolling ten 100sided dice to get 25 or under in order to win 1 trillion gaia gold! ROFL LMAO
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My Gaia Memory: the gaia garage... are cars even still a thing??
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My Gaia Memory: Oh, man. Gaia Cars. They pushed the Scion sooooo hard and that car was fugly.
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My Gaia Memory: Watching big raffles get rolled. I just keep refreshing pages. It's exciting! xD
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My Gaia Memory: [ screenshots of random.org lists with mosaic over the names at the bottom - ]
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My Gaia Memory: Sushi 404 ERROR: PAGE NOT FOUND
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My Gaia Memory: Having randos hit on you in gaia towns. Also just the way they animated the avatars feet to move roflmao
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My Gaia Memory: the chaos of a dice game xD so much fun!
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My Gaia Memory: Marveling at the people who could buy tens of thousands of tickets for single b/c events.
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My Gaia Memory: seeing people copying each other's avatars and then i be reading "so-and-so stole my avatar" call out threads fighting over who made the avatar(s) first
LMAO
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My Gaia Memory: Contests to make avies for people to win items, gold or art
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My Gaia Memory: Collecting all the fox/kitsune items I liked. xD (it's my fave animal/creature)
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My Gaia Memory: Hitting refresh a million times waiting for a speed sale. XD!!
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My Gaia Memory: [ keysmashing at the end of URLs to hide them in private colorist folders ]
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My Gaia Memory: my avatar was "bitten" during a halloween event so when i logged back in again a couple months later when event had already passed, i had a vampire skin and was a vampire human avatar LOL. and i decided to stay like that until years later when gaia released potions OwO
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My Gaia Memory: Some gaia event where I got a sparkle skin with big red eyes and at the time everyone wanted it. Only the winning team got it so it sold for millions (which was a lot back then lmao). I still have that skin and put it on every so often.
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My Gaia Memory: when gaia aquariums were a thing! trying to raise fish. I eventually gave up on that. xD
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My Gaia Memory: Reading all the comics when they came out. Had some amazing Drama.
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My Gaia Memory: Remembering how cute, funny, and actually well done the Easter event with Diedrich was.
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My Gaia Memory: did anyone mention BOOOOTYY GRABBB yet ('8 ? it's not funny but it's funny now. it was easy gold boost playing glowing tanks with all the blue mermaids and orcas and sharks (no i dont remember those item names i trashed everything in my aquarium tab.)
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My Gaia Memory: [ the avatar item that was just a photo of a cat in place of your avatar's head ]
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My Gaia Memory: The gaia town event. I had so much avy art for Team Durem
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My Gaia Memory: Editing on the same bases over and over and over. XD!! I still have the taur lines memorized.
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My Gaia Memory: franken pets~ xD so much fun!
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My Gaia Memory: Discovering the B/C subforums and leaving behind Barton Town RPs forever.
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My Gaia Memory: [ pink links! ]
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My Gaia Memory: the BAN-HAMMER days, mods banning any one without reasons and when there are reasons they are sloppy as hek and made no sense -eyerolls-
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My Gaia Memory: Fishing! I used to actually sit in rooms of randos and just chat and fish.
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My Gaia Memory: Playing Black Jack just to watch the NPCs get nervous.
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My Gaia Memory: the introduction of gaia towns. watching your avatar 'walk' was hilarious xD
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My Gaia Memory: [ i know they're often regarded as poisonous, but conceptually at least i really looked forward to each monthly RIG ]
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My Gaia Memory: Trying my hand (and also just browsing) the official avatar contests. I loved seeing all the creative anime and video game cosplays.
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My Gaia Memory: The Ron Bruise comics.
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My Gaia Memory: The first time I actually bought gaia cash. XD I remember you could buy cards at target and other stores.
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My Gaia Memory: omg gaia cash cards!!!!
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My Gaia Memory: everyone used to use tektek to make gaia avatars. Now there's a new gaia avy maker that I like to play with instead.
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My Gaia Memory: [ moira hehehe ]
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My Gaia Memory: ART FREEBIES DURING GAIA OLYMPICS :)
*sorry real life ate me these days*
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My Gaia Memory: meeting my wife!!
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My Gaia Memory: The random signature where I had... the mushroom egg.
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My Gaia Memory: Getting free avy art because people liked the avies I made
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My Gaia Memory: Being in a meta-plot for an RP-heavy B/C shop
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My Gaia Memory: finding a pink link! ouo
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My Gaia Memory: zOMG. and my avatar glitching into the ceiling after i load game up.
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My Gaia Memory: spending way way too much on RIGs and collectibles
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My Gaia Memory: [ is derpens too specific? ; o ; ]