Subject: *wanders in* Well, it has been 84 years...
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Posted on: 2021-05-07 08:28:21 UTC

..Well, okay. Not 84. But by Bast, it has been almost twenty since I joined the first time.

Er. Hi? Love what you've done with the place! I did debate over posting like an official hello, and this is not a "Well I'm back!" by any means, but it is more like a "Well, I'm alive, still, wow, I just of disappeared, didn't I?" I might just... drop by from time to time and lurk.

For those that don't know, I am Ekwy, I came on the Board back in the long-long ago times of 2002, wrote a couple PPC Missions in the HP MS Division, went on two very early London Gatherings (hi hS!), wrote (and never finished) the Offical Fanfiction University of Cats, and then I got distracted by something shiny for nearly two decades. My departure was not with a bang but with a whimper. (I think I got really into RPing at Hogwarts Hocus, not sure how many people here remember THAT place.) I was sort of tangentially aware of the PPC still being around and found the thought pretty comforting, but I hadn't been writing much fanfiction at all and was more of the mindset that I'd focus on... I dunno, "real" writing. And then 2020 happened, which we must not dwell on, and my writing just... stopped. And I was miserable. And it really was remembering fanfction that brought me out of it. It made me remember that oh yeah, I like this, this is fun, and it doesn't have to be perfect or sellable or anything like that, it can just be what it is and that is wonderful!

And then I found Neshomeh on Ao3 by clicking on the Phantom of the Opera tag (god, I love Ao3, it is the most bananas place on the Internet and no one can tell me it isn't) and noticed that "wait, Protectors of the Plot Continuum is a TAG that people USE?" and THAT tumbled me down the Wiki rabbit hole, and you guys have ARCHIVED me and my stupid little stories, and it's all still THERE, and I was tearing up reading it! You GUYS. I am SO impressed by this tremendous effort, and I really just wanted to stop by and let you know how much I appreciate you. The PPC was so important to me. I met my best friend in the PPC. It was the driving force behind me developing my English, because I wanted to write better missions. I still have people in my life that I wouldn't have without the PPC. It has literally shaped me.

And I wanted you to know that. <3

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