Hi there! I'm very new and I wanted to start things off by posting a story about how my SO and I met, and eventually ended the distance in our LDR.
How we met:
That's right nerds, we met through World of Warcraft. How is that possible, you may ask? It's such a weird story that we enjoy going over and over it together and giggling. Stars definitely had to align properly for it to happen.
I was previously in a long distance relationship, and was at the time recently split up from a relationship which was proximal. Truthfully, I had given up on men and love. Not out of desperation or anger, but just a silent resolve to focus on other areas of my life and to disclude intimacy and romance. Things never quite work out for me in that department and I grew tired of consistently finding myself on the receiving end of mistreatment.
And now for a little bit of a nerd interlude, I'll set up the scene. My ex was the GM of my World of Warcraft guild. A guild on Sargeras called Virulent which is now merged with the guild Origins. After we broke things off, I tried to hang around in that guild for awhile, I had been in it for upwards of 2 years. Things grew uncomfortable and it became pretty obvious that I needed to move on, that my presence was strange for anyone who was aware of the situation with my ex and I. So I became a “free agent” if you will. My gear was crappy, I had been out of the game for months dealing with personal issues, I really couldn't go anywhere in particular without calling in some favors and I definitely don't take hand-outs.
So, I was invited to a guild on the Sargeras server named Raiding is Hard Perhaps you've heard of us? I was invited by an automated guild invite mod called RapeDotty.
A random invite on my level 71 warrior, I quietly leveled in the guild befriending very few people, and rarely participating in guild chat. I didn't join on my main character, my shaman, because of some weird chick who hated me because I hung out a couple times with her boyfriend before they got together...sigh. Later, when she had a nervous breakdown and went crazy, she left and I joined.
Let me give you a bit of history about the guild Raiding is Hard. They are 80% RapeDotty invites and 20% friends of friends. Their primary goal is...well..to not have a primary goal? They consider themselves trolls, for the most part...people who strive to annoy sensitive people and entertain people with a similar sense of humor. We're not rude, we're silly...and very over the top. If we can find a button to push to offend you, we will. We are the island of misfit raiders
That is the guild as a whole, as a member I rarely participate in the trolling festivities, though I do roll need on [Frozen Orb]s!
Anywho, this guild is lead by none other than server-famous Paladindave. Paladindave is a nice, fun, intelligent guy who gets his rocks off spending large quantities of time convincing people he's a narcissistic b*stard who thinks the world revolves around him.
Scratch that, he IS a narcissistic b*stard who thinks the world revolves around him, and he readily admits to that.
He has this weird allure that attracts a lot of desperate women...and gay/curious/bi-sexual men.
I am unsure as to what that allure actually IS, but it exists.
I made it my mission to annoy Paladindave. Easy enough! Just...don't flirt with him. He hated that. He liked the female attention!
Paladindave is a tank. The day the new ICC heroics came out, I ran them with some guildmates and a tank in the guild named Goldfist tanked for us.
So, to annoy Paladindave, I developed a fake infatuation with Goldfist. I'd proclaim his amazing tanking prowess to anyone who would listen.
I had no idea who this Goldfist person was, he rarely logged on, so I figured...what the hell.
A day or so later I was bragging about Goldfist to Paladindave in a public vent channel with a few people in it...as it turns out...Goldfist is actually an alt (alternate) character of Kathlynn, one of our resto druids.
Um, how embarrassing, I've been talking some random guy up...and that random guy had been listening all along!
I felt so silly and stupid that I just had to apologize.
I had been a TOTAL internet creeper, so I sent him a message apologizing for being weird, that I didn't know it was him, I thought it was some random person who really never played.
But, he was actually really cool with it. He'd enjoyed the attention, thought I was funny, that I sounded cute, etc.
We started talking just before Christmas and got to know one another a bit. At Christmas time he went out of town to visit family.
We used twitter to casually tweet back and forth, but I realized while he was gone that I really missed him being around to chat with.
I guess he missed me too, because when he got back, we started talking up a STORM I tell you! Got to know one another really well.
Something just *clicked* for us. It was like we had always known one another. We labeled ourselves the kids who, you know, sat in the back of the class and made fun of all the other kids (even though we were both A students in school). Our sense of humor is so dead-on similar that it is almost scary. And that is saying a lot, we're very unique people.
On January 11th, 2010, we were helping a guildmate (oddly enough, Paladindave) through the undead side of Stratholme when Brandon asked me to be his girlfriend, to be exclusive and to make an honest attempt at dating in the real world.
I immediately agreed, having had feelings for him already.
Things sort of...went on from there.
We met for the first time face-to-face on March 2nd, 2010 and spent 10 lovely days together.
Even though we are keeping this relationship a secret from our guildmates, I can't help but say:
<3 u Goldfist
How we met:
That's right nerds, we met through World of Warcraft. How is that possible, you may ask? It's such a weird story that we enjoy going over and over it together and giggling. Stars definitely had to align properly for it to happen.
I was previously in a long distance relationship, and was at the time recently split up from a relationship which was proximal. Truthfully, I had given up on men and love. Not out of desperation or anger, but just a silent resolve to focus on other areas of my life and to disclude intimacy and romance. Things never quite work out for me in that department and I grew tired of consistently finding myself on the receiving end of mistreatment.
And now for a little bit of a nerd interlude, I'll set up the scene. My ex was the GM of my World of Warcraft guild. A guild on Sargeras called Virulent which is now merged with the guild Origins. After we broke things off, I tried to hang around in that guild for awhile, I had been in it for upwards of 2 years. Things grew uncomfortable and it became pretty obvious that I needed to move on, that my presence was strange for anyone who was aware of the situation with my ex and I. So I became a “free agent” if you will. My gear was crappy, I had been out of the game for months dealing with personal issues, I really couldn't go anywhere in particular without calling in some favors and I definitely don't take hand-outs.
So, I was invited to a guild on the Sargeras server named Raiding is Hard Perhaps you've heard of us? I was invited by an automated guild invite mod called RapeDotty.
A random invite on my level 71 warrior, I quietly leveled in the guild befriending very few people, and rarely participating in guild chat. I didn't join on my main character, my shaman, because of some weird chick who hated me because I hung out a couple times with her boyfriend before they got together...sigh. Later, when she had a nervous breakdown and went crazy, she left and I joined.
Let me give you a bit of history about the guild Raiding is Hard. They are 80% RapeDotty invites and 20% friends of friends. Their primary goal is...well..to not have a primary goal? They consider themselves trolls, for the most part...people who strive to annoy sensitive people and entertain people with a similar sense of humor. We're not rude, we're silly...and very over the top. If we can find a button to push to offend you, we will. We are the island of misfit raiders
That is the guild as a whole, as a member I rarely participate in the trolling festivities, though I do roll need on [Frozen Orb]s!
Anywho, this guild is lead by none other than server-famous Paladindave. Paladindave is a nice, fun, intelligent guy who gets his rocks off spending large quantities of time convincing people he's a narcissistic b*stard who thinks the world revolves around him.
Scratch that, he IS a narcissistic b*stard who thinks the world revolves around him, and he readily admits to that.
He has this weird allure that attracts a lot of desperate women...and gay/curious/bi-sexual men.
I am unsure as to what that allure actually IS, but it exists.
I made it my mission to annoy Paladindave. Easy enough! Just...don't flirt with him. He hated that. He liked the female attention!
Paladindave is a tank. The day the new ICC heroics came out, I ran them with some guildmates and a tank in the guild named Goldfist tanked for us.
So, to annoy Paladindave, I developed a fake infatuation with Goldfist. I'd proclaim his amazing tanking prowess to anyone who would listen.
I had no idea who this Goldfist person was, he rarely logged on, so I figured...what the hell.
A day or so later I was bragging about Goldfist to Paladindave in a public vent channel with a few people in it...as it turns out...Goldfist is actually an alt (alternate) character of Kathlynn, one of our resto druids.
Um, how embarrassing, I've been talking some random guy up...and that random guy had been listening all along!
I felt so silly and stupid that I just had to apologize.
I had been a TOTAL internet creeper, so I sent him a message apologizing for being weird, that I didn't know it was him, I thought it was some random person who really never played.
But, he was actually really cool with it. He'd enjoyed the attention, thought I was funny, that I sounded cute, etc.
We started talking just before Christmas and got to know one another a bit. At Christmas time he went out of town to visit family.
We used twitter to casually tweet back and forth, but I realized while he was gone that I really missed him being around to chat with.
I guess he missed me too, because when he got back, we started talking up a STORM I tell you! Got to know one another really well.
Something just *clicked* for us. It was like we had always known one another. We labeled ourselves the kids who, you know, sat in the back of the class and made fun of all the other kids (even though we were both A students in school). Our sense of humor is so dead-on similar that it is almost scary. And that is saying a lot, we're very unique people.
On January 11th, 2010, we were helping a guildmate (oddly enough, Paladindave) through the undead side of Stratholme when Brandon asked me to be his girlfriend, to be exclusive and to make an honest attempt at dating in the real world.
I immediately agreed, having had feelings for him already.
Things sort of...went on from there.
We met for the first time face-to-face on March 2nd, 2010 and spent 10 lovely days together.
Even though we are keeping this relationship a secret from our guildmates, I can't help but say:
<3 u Goldfist
Yay MMOs! Haha. Except I was more of a social type, he was more PVP. Never did much PVP at all. Except my dad used to steal my computer and PVP with my toon. >.> Luckily that's not how we met, haha, but you can understand my reaction when people were like, "Hey, we grouped last night, want to go run yada yada PVP mission?" And I'm like, "Um, er. =P" </random>
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