Boop!

[Endra]

Hi!

I've been lurking 'round these parts for the better part of the last day, mostly looking at the old Lea archives. Some of you may remember me from over a decade ago as 'Ghalati' or 'Aziri'. Well... I'm baaaack - and I'm sillier and bouncier than ever! It has been a looong time since I've regularly used a forum, but I'ma try to check here somewhat regularly now that I know forums are still a thing!

P.S. Thank you Shatara for giving me the little push I needed to come back :3

[Dare]

Hehe, I remember those names.
Welcome back!
:)

[Shatara]

Boop! :3

[Guntur]

And our old beloved member has returned, Two actually. Welcome back Shatara and Endra. :cheese:

Enjoy your stay in the new beloved Lea halalela forum. :D

[King Simba]

Ghalati! Or as you're now known as Endra... welcome back! :D

Welcome back to you as well, Shat. :vitsm:

[Leorgathar]

I don't think we ever met, since I joined in 2008. Nice to meet you, and welcome back! :)

[nathalie]

Well there is a familiar face ;) welcome back!

[Endra]

Yay so many familiar (and a few unfamiliar ^^) faces! Hi KS, Guntur, nathalie, Shatara, Dare, and Leorgathar!

So a lot has happened since I was active here! In no particular order: I became a furry, stopped being a furry, played MMOs for a few years (ugh), earned a bachelor's degree, fell in love, got married last November (though him and I have been together for 6 years now!), transitioned (I'm a girl ^^), became a brony... and lots of other stuff!

Endra has kinda become my catch-all name for my lioness and pegasus characters. My pony was like... based entirely on my lion :D


https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/11/11/762276/thumb.png (https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/11/11/762276/full.png)https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/12/17/786637/thumb.jpg (https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/12/17/786637/full.jpg)

[Guntur]

Congratulations on the marriage. :cheese: Good that you have a bachelor degree dear, that is excellent for a young people like us.

after this 10 years, I still holding my high school degree and my national service certificate. :lol: :(

Oh, MMO, yeah I've been there for quite a while, I think few of us were there for quite a while. -_-:yuck:

[nathalie]

Wauw, you've been busy hehe.
I remember some things from the past, glad to read things have worked out and you found your true self.

[Kirauni]

Hey there Endra and welcome back :)
I think we haven't met before, so yeah.. nice to meet you!
Yes, I can relate to some things you just said. Life is really full of changes :lol:

Congratulations on your marriage and all the best. However, I didn't quite get the "transitioned" part... what exactly does that mean? Would you please explain it to me? That would be great because I'm eager to learn new words ;)

Oh and are these - by any chance - your two former accounts? If yes, I could merge them with your new one. :)
http://www.leahalalela.net/member.php?223-Ghalati
http://www.leahalalela.net/member.php?357-Aziri

[Endra]

Hey there Endra and welcome back :)
I think we haven't met before, so yeah.. nice to meet you!
Yes, I can relate to some things you just said. Life is really full of changes :lol:

Congratulations on your marriage and all the best. However, I didn't quite get the "transitioned" part... what exactly does that mean? Would you please explain it to me? That would be great because I'm eager to learn new words ;)

Oh and are these - by any chance - your two former accounts? If yes, I could merge them with your new one. :)
http://www.leahalalela.net/member.php?223-Ghalati
http://www.leahalalela.net/member.php?357-Aziri

Yes, please do merge the accounts! Ghalati and Aziri technically were the same account originally. :o

And sure, I can explain a bit! Quite simply: I'm transgender - I'm a woman, but was assigned male at birth. I almost didn't want to mention it, because I didn't want to make a big deal about it (pretty much the opposite of what I did when I was a teenager). But I figured since I did mention it a lot when I was younger, it'd be good to let you all know that everything has worked itself out.

Oh, and it probably helps that I haven't seen my toxic parents in 6-7 years now. :P

[Leorgathar]

I supposed that's what you meant by "transitioned", I have a transgender male friend in another forum ^^ I think that's a brave move, so congrats on you finding who you really are :)

[King Simba]

Wow, I think that makes you one of the few people I know that is transgender. I think that's really cool actually, so congrats on doing what you think (or know) is right. And welcome to the world of females. :D

[Endra]

Well, I mean... I was self-aware enough even as a teen to know that something was up. I guess I'm brave for being my authentic self, but at the same time I don't feel brave for just being me, ya know? :p


Wow, I think that makes you one of the few people I know that is transgender. I think that's really cool actually, so congrats on doing what you think (or know) is right. And welcome to the world of females. :D

Thank yooou! To be honest, I'm just happy to be back here and have absolutely no real life drama occurring. It feels like the last time I was active here was around when Fuzzy lived with me and my parents for a short time (that was 10 years ago O.O). It just feels soooo amazing to be back here chatting with good friends, almost like I never left! I almost went back to my old routine of trying to load up MSN Messenger, completely forgetting that they did that merge with Skype a few years back.

[Aurelian]

I am litterally in shock right now. Ghalati (as I knew him) was one of my closest freinds back in the day, and I always thought it was so cool that I knew a transgender person who was so open. Then, he just vanished. I missed him so terribly.

Endra, I am actually crying tears of joy as seeing you again! Welcome back.

You to, Shatty.

[nathalie]

I remember you used to talk about it, I also still remember what you looked like back then, bit curious to see how you look now ;)

Great that everything fell into place :)

[Endra]

Oooh I'll gladly share pics! I'll prolly post these and a few more in the "Post Your Pic" thread later too.

http://i.imgur.com/TKiG3Kgs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/TKiG3Kg.jpg)http://i.imgur.com/tZj69hZs.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/tZj69hZ.jpg)

EDIT: Also a silly pic from Bronycon of me, my hubby, and megatron (I'll let you guess who is who :P). I love showing this pic with no context, but I'll provide some this time! :P It was taken at the fursuit photoshoot and we were helping one several of our friends.
http://i.imgur.com/wQX8muh.png (http://i.imgur.com/8WXbf2l.png) We were standing off to the side because this was going on right next to us: http://www.trbimg.com/img-55ca047c/turbine/bcpnews-bronycon-in-photos-20150811-111/200/200x200 (http://www.trbimg.com/img-55ca0486/turbine/bcpnews-bronycon-in-photos-20150811-111/1200/1200x675)

[HasiraKali]

I remember you! I wasn't all that chatty back then, still not really, but yay you're back!

[nathalie]

Looking good there! It's great you can talk about it so comfortable also.

[Guntur]

You're looking good Endra, Love it. :cheese: :D

[Darkslash]

I remember you. Also awesome you got to go to BronyCon (was there as well - no con could have prepared me for it).

[Kirauni]

Yes, please do merge the accounts! Ghalati and Aziri technically were the same account originally. :o



All right, I've merged all three of them.

And thank you for your explanation! I hought that's what you meant, but I wanted to make sure. I've never met someone before who actually is transgender. That's amazing and I'm really glad you're able to talk about it freely now. Thank you for clearing things up! :smile3:

[Endra]

Wooo! Now I can feel old every time I look at my join date :3

Also, thanks everyone! I can talk about gender stuff fairly easily because I've de-emphasized that aspect of my life. I'm just a girl ^^. Looking back on some of my old posts, it kinda embarrasses me to see how open and tactless 15 year old me was :p

[Vidan]

Now I can feel old every time I look at my join date :3

You can also feel young because you're not only one of our older members but also our newest member :lol:

[Endra]

You can also feel young because you're not only one of our older members but also our newest member :lol:

Mhm! I am as paradoxical as always. :3

How are ya doing Vidan? It has been a lil bit since last we spoke! You were like one of the few people from here that I actually met up with IRL :hugs:

[Guntur]

:lol: Yeah, we're all been there, I remember I used to beat my self up how immature I was back on 2005, but things changed, everyone changes.

Sorry I didn't post this but I'm glad you have found your Identity Endra, I know it's hard for someone to find their own identity but I'm glad you pass it through dear. :cheese: :D

[Vidan]

Doing pretty good, thanks for asking. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a huge amount of time since I saw you last but I guess it's actually been what, 4 or 5 years?

[Sharifu]

I remember you, of course. So glad to see you back. :hugs:

You too, Shatty. :D

[Endra]

Doing pretty good, thanks for asking. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a huge amount of time since I saw you last but I guess it's actually been what, 4 or 5 years?

Actually it has been 6! Met up with ya when I was still living on campus/living with my parents, which was before I moved to North Carolina in 2009. We need to meet up again next time we are on the same coast!

And yay Sharifu! I've missed ya a lot. There is so much I want to talk about - almost too much for a forum post. How are you? How is STM? :3 Is there any chat/IM service that you guys use for convenient booping?

:rafikistick:

[nathalie]

Facebook I guess, lol.

Sadly the yahoo voice chats died out.

[Utora]

OMG! *tackleshugs*

It's been FOREVER! It's so great to see you again Endra! (I'll have to reassign that name in my head when I think of you :lol:)
It's great to see you are doing well! You were missed. :cheese:

[Endra]

OMG! *tackleshugs*

It's been FOREVER! It's so great to see you again Endra! (I'll have to reassign that name in my head when I think of you :lol:)
It's great to see you are doing well! You were missed. :cheese:

*tries to catch but is knocked over*

UTORA! I missed you so much! You were seriously one of my closest friends back when I dropped off the face of the internets... we -HAVE- to catch up! Added you on Steam and Skype ^^

On the subject of IM-y programs, for anyone who wants to add me, here is my steam info: http://steamcommunity.com/id/endra
My skype information should be underneath my avatar (I have no idea how to link to a skype profile or I would!).

[Sharifu]

And yay Sharifu! I've missed ya a lot. There is so much I want to talk about - almost too much for a forum post. How are you? How is STM? :3 Is there any chat/IM service that you guys use for convenient booping?

:rafikistick:


I'm doing good... Currently going back to college in California. STM is good, he's now going to college here too. We got married in 2010, don't know if you knew that or not. :p Actually we are currently living in San Francisco, STM and I are renting the master bedroom in the same house Vidan is living in. So we're room mates with Vidan. So hey, if you ever want to meet up with Vidan if you come out to California, we can visit with you too. :cheese:

As for chat services, I have Skype. Or there is Facebook too, if you want to chat through there. :p

[Azerane]

Hey, of course I remember you, so great to have you back :D

[Kailash]

Congratulations,Welcome Back......