Subject: Man, I feel old...
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Posted on: 2008-11-26 21:54:00 UTC
I wrote Suedom. Well, cowrote it. And wrote the Board Constitution linked up there. And cowrote Troll Division.
{pulls out Oldby cred} And I posted on the very first page of the Board when it was created. I was one of the most regular Regulars for years.
...Now I feel old as dirt, lol.
Even though I don't recognize anyone, does my little heart-bubble happy to see people still here.
Yes, it's THAT Saphie.
LJ was down and I totally just happened to peek in here on a whim and was surprise to see y'all were still going. (Not like in a bad way. It's just been so long...)
Any Oldbies still around? I'm still best buds with Andy, and I've run into others here and there, like Hawkelf and Blayze, who I RP with, but I was just curious to see what everyone else is up to.
I'm mostly deeply involved with comic RP fandom, DC and Marvel and have a sci fi pan-fandom game I'm running, if anyone's interested.
So, anyone here actually remember me? And what are y'all up to in fandom nowadays? I feel sad that I lost so many email addresses of people when I let my old hotmail die. There's no way to get back in contact with some of 'em now.
Cool, PPC legends popping out of the aether. Tasari, aka A. Gallwoglass, DMS: PotC/misc English lit., and Tatharien, DMS: LotR. At your service, miss.
I should study up on my oldbies.
Saphie of Suedom! Wow, can I shake your hand? Please? *extends hand*
{...while holding a joy buzzer} Mwahaha!
Okay, kidding. XD
It's nice to see fans! If you go up to Andy's message up thar, you'll get a nice little view of the state of Suedom.
Sorry to drop in so late, but you mentioned a sci-fi pan-fandom game, and I was curious. Could you give me a link or a name to Google?
http://community.livejournal.com/trans_9/profile
And it's AWESOME. (Thought frozen right now due to the holiday)
Dude. You're in charge of that rp? I ran across it earlier and thought it was a cool idea.
Ran an old incarnation of it a while ago (and came up with the main concept), but that blew up partly due to me and a mod not getting on and it was too hard to run alone. Recruited two new different mods, fixed up the structure to make it easier to run, rebooted, and here we are.
It's going much better this time.
*waves* I think I was around 'round about a bit before you left? Maybe? Anyway, good to see you again! Hope you can maybe drop by every now and again.
Of course I remember you. :D Hiiiiiiiii!
I'm around, kindasorta. I'm not too involved in any fandom nowadays, since my life's been sort of consumed by moving across country twice, getting married (to hS, of all people. Speaking of PPC couples . . . :P), and preparing to move out of the country, should the UK government ever choose to grant me a spouse visa. But! I still do check in on the board every now and again. It's good to see you!
That's AWESOME!
May I have your Autograph?
And a few chocolates for Andy and your Suedom characters, if you're willing to share it with them.
Very, very new Boarder here. A lot of oldbies and newbies appearing - or reappearing - since I joined, apparently. I read Suedom a few times, and it's good to hear it isn't actually a dead fic.
Oh, and do you want some random shiny and/or pointy objects? I've got a lightspork, glass equipment from Morrowind, random lightsaber crystals, a few extra copies of Glorious and the Omniscient Staff from the Disgaea-verse, a few Prinny costumes, and a whole bunch of Wall-E plushies. Granted, the plushies and the Prinny suits aren't actually shiny or pointy, but they are still very awesome.
Oh, and Neshomeh, is there any more of that food and drink left?
That's a flamethrower/axe combo, if you're wondering. See the nozzle? No, slow down, don't point it at me, please. Glad to have an old face back, the doors are always open. I was around somewhere between '05-'07 way back when (probably '05 or '06, I KNOW it wasn't in '07...ah well), but that's as close to being an oldbie as I can claim to be. Dunno any others aside from the already-established vets, so sorry I can't help with that. Hope you have fun! Have you read the wiki? A lot of stuff's happened in the PPC.
I've actually been here... Over two years now (0.o) but I don't think we've met before. I did read Suedom when I first joined!
My Agents are Kumori Tenki and Georgia Branch, DoF, and deal with anime missions. I'm a co-course coordinator at the Official Fanfiction University of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and enjoy writing goodfic more than I do sporking badfic.
So yeah, that's me! Welcome back to the PPC.
I believe I came well after your time, but it's nice to meet you. Want some chocolate? It's Swiss dark. *offers*
I'm still here, and happy Thanksgiving, by the way!
I was a newbie when you were here, but I guess I'm an old one now. Since you left, I compiled a List of Everything PPC and Complete List of PPC Fiction, which should show you just how far we've come since, what was it, 2004? '05? And more newbies are coming in every day. I didn't think we'd last this long, but I'm definitely not complaining. Welcome back!
--Araeph, Department of Technical Errors
Wow, that's incredible. I mean, I knew people were gradually leaving over time and moving on to other fandoms, but it's awesome more people came in. Kinda didn't think they would after the rush from the movies was over.
Nice to meet you! Everyone else has already said everything interesting, so I'll just shake your hand and hope you don't have aggressive minis. :)
My pets are people in spandex rather than balrogs. {is big into superhero fandoms}
We still live, breathe, kick and occasionally flamethrower things :)
Welcome back!
I'm not back-back. Mostly just stopping in to say hi.
I've picked up a few PPCers for some of my games, so part of it is seeing who's here and then I may plug them later, to see if I can pick up some new players for them. Since I've kinda moved on, I've been hoping to see if any peeps want to hang where I hang now, basically, 'cause I miss 'em.
College has been kicking back, so I've been a bit less active than I would like, but I'm definitely still here.
Hey! How's going? School's been kicking my ass lately too, but it's easier since it's all online.
Whoa. THE Saphie. *waves*
I'm a lowly newbie compared to you, having only been around since April, but I sure as heck know of you, particularly after having read Suedom a dozen times or more.
Fandomswise my Agents are still at that most fundamental of PPC works, LOTR Sues, but they can cover Harry Potter, Redwall, most of David Eddings' works, the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel, and at a push Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.
And as to what we're up to... *grins* I could sit here all night rambling on about everything that's happened recently, but I think this page
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/2008MarySue_Invasion
should tell you most of the details of my current favourite project. I've also got a mission, an MST and an OFU underway, so, yeah...
*toddles off to be an industrious li'l newbie, though keeps looking back over her shoulder in awe*
Someday we'll finish Suedom. Andy and I are guilty as hell that we haven't yet. Most of our energy's devoted to school, and Andy's pretty much converted the idea into an original one she wants to put out as a comic, where I sort of converted Kira's character into a comic book character with her own comic book world.
But it's nice to see people still read it. We REALLY need to finish the dang thing for you guys.
LOL, and that Mary Sue Invasion thing is great. We never used to do big PPC-wide event crossovers before.
Oooh yes, please, please finish Suedom! That story is too awesome to be left uncompleted. *makes big puppy-dog eyes*
(Yes, I remember Suedom... as I recall, I'm in it somewhere) I'd just assumed it was abandoned along with so many other large-scale PPC things, so I'm quite pleased to hear you're still at least thinking about thinking about it. I have noticed a few Suedom-derived things on your LJs, and I figured that was as much as we'd ever get... which would be a real shame, because I know there's lots of people who really want to know how it ends.
hS, who as previously mentioned talks too much, but in his defense he was always a big fan of Suedom and only didn't mention it in his own post because he thought it might be impolitic to do so, and this description is going to end up longer than the post itself if it doesn't end soon.
If hS was but a newbie when you left, I would have still been a Suethor at the time, so we've never met.
Pan-fandom? Doctor Who, the Ransom Trilogy, Star Trek, Star Wars, Known Space, Firebird (Tyers), H2G2, everything?
Yeah. The game is panfandom. Any fandom, any character can be apped. It's a sci fi/horror setting. We allow some OCs, too, but we're picky about them. (They can't be Sues or Stus, obviously).
Like hS said, I remember you, but that was when I was but a wee newbie and didn't talk much.
I DO know Hawkelf and Blayze, and I also RP with them (though sadly not so much in the last couple of years, college being what it is), so we have that in common. Are you aware of the insanity that is our version of the Lounge? *g*
hS pretty well covered fandoms, I think. I find myself with mostly Harry Potter crossovers of various types on my list, but Pern turns up rather frequently, too, now that the author allows fanfic.
Anyhow, welcome back! Pull up a chair; stay awhile. Try the latest Bleep concoctions, maybe some edible punctuation--"for it is dull," as Jadis says, "to drink without eating." ^_^
~Neshomeh
Oh wow, and McCaffrey's allowing fic?
Nominally the PPC Lounge, only we mostly played on AIM, and it was the site of many a crazy happening involving agents, OCs, and the odd canon characters who stumbled through plotholes. Also a great deal of fun. ^_^
And, yes. Much of it is awful, of course, but there are bright spots, too.
~Neshomeh
Heya, welcome back.
Don't know you properly, but certainly know of you.
I figure I ought give the wiki link (let's leave it at saying it was a crack idea and I thought it'd end up not being used within a couple months and it's still been growing for almost a year now.)
Still needs a lot of filling in, since its subject matter seems to have broadened, but we're working on it, just need to get a lot of stuff from older spin offs added, and so forth.
*so knows what part of her Thanksgiving and then winter break will be dedicated to*
... but mostly I just remember being intimidated by you. But aye, there's a few of us Oldbies still around (although the total number of active Old-Oldbies, ie those who were around when Jay was still here [I wasn't] is, mm... something like two, if that?), and a whole host of newbies of various ages. So welcome back.
The PPC still has its roots in LotR, of course, and significant grounding in Harry Potter, but most missions nowadays are in various anime continuua and a couple of newer things (Doctor Who and Torchwood are occasionally up, and of late the Chronicles of Narnia get a showing). We also have more Departments, loads more Agents, several recent crises (oh, heck, you don't even know what happened to Makes-Things, do you?), and a lot of other stuff floating around. How much of it is of interest to you depends on whether this is just a flying visit, really.
Anyway, hi, I'm hS, I remember you, and I talk too much.
hS
And I'm active!
-ish.
Sorta.
Kinda.
You know . . .
Lol, I remember you though.
What happened to Makes-Things?
I'm kinda just stopping in, but interested to see what happened while I was gone.
... I was scared of quite a few people who were fairly prominent on the Board or in the PPC community in general.
As to Makes-Things... oh dear. The best way to do this is probably the quick way:
He's dead.
As are a whole lot of other people. None of them are very important, though.
Oh, and on the retroactive history front, I would be failing in my duties as a relentless self-promoter if I didn't at least nod in the direction of Tangled Webs, the PPC History site. It's, um... tangled.
hS
Ya, I am still around. It:s still a good haven against insanity.
Oh wait, we are the insane ones....
Leto
Look! It's in the shape of a Ypur!
And yes, we are still going. It's quite fun, so I don't think anyone would willingly leave for ages. I don't think we've met, but welcome back anyway! Do you have the all-important Links Julyflame is going to give out?
Hi!
And what links?
For Julyflame attacks like ninja, and even more deadly (She uses sporks). Essentially the links go to things that explain things about the PPC that might not have been around since you were last here.
On another topic, did you have any agents? Or were you just a Boarder?
I wrote Suedom. Well, cowrote it. And wrote the Board Constitution linked up there. And cowrote Troll Division.
{pulls out Oldby cred} And I posted on the very first page of the Board when it was created. I was one of the most regular Regulars for years.
...Now I feel old as dirt, lol.
Even though I don't recognize anyone, does my little heart-bubble happy to see people still here.
I'd say that was pretty deadly.
...
Plus sometimes you're just darn scary. *hides*
Don't mean to be a bit of a thread hijacker here, but serious, Cassie, Artic, that sort of thing is getting mega tiresome.
'Eee July is meen and ebil and scaree and she attacks!!1!'
Serious.
Stop it.
It colors people's opinions of me before they even know who I am. Let others decide what sort of person I am from what they see before you say that stuff, I'm just getting sick of it.
Apology chocolate? *holds out large plate*
Sorry, July. I think I've been part of this, too. *presents a peace offering of Convenient Cake*
I was joking, but I'll stop. It's one of the old Aussie traditions, teasing those around you. Most of the time they tease back, but I'll stop now.
It was meant to be just a joke, but I promise I'll stop. I didn't realise it upset you that much.
Though it'd probably help if you laid off people a bit in IM chats, even if they are being idiots. Not that I'm trying to cause an argument here- the last thing we want is an argument on the Board- but I'm just saying your behaviour in chatland doesn't help.
... that we once had a prominent Board member leave in a huff from which she never came back after someone else assumed her behaviour should be consistant across the internet and called her on it when it wasn't. Which, I know, is not what's happening here, but it's in a similar category.
hS
Behaviour in chatland =/= behaviour on the Board.
And it's not because I can't take the joke so much as when other people don't realise the joke and actually think I AM scary, evil, or otherwise mean that's not so funny. That's more 'eek'.
I just never noticed anyone actually didn't realise the joke. :S We tend to forget that not everyone on the board knows everyone else so well. Sorry.
I'm sure no one takes them seriously. But if it really upsets you that much... *bows* They and the rest of us shall stop it.
...Can we at least still make jokes about the rayguns?
When I saw it, and I don't know you at all, I assumed it was just a joke. People used to joke that Andy and I were a couple. We weren't, but it was a funny joke.
It's a grand PPC tradition.
(Joke! Joke! It's a joke!)
Of course, in the nature of Truth In Fiction, there now are several genuine couples on the Board...
hS
Man I wish. Andy's like SMOKING hot now. XD
Well okay, my clothes were less fabulous.
...has demonstrated a pronounced upswing in recent years. So yes, you've earned an upgrade from hot to smokin' hot.