Dear Future PPC Community Members,

Hi! Am I still around? If so, HI, FUTURE ME! I hope you're as awesome as you should be and haven't turned (even more) crotchety! And if you're not the one reading this, I hope whoever is passes on my greeting. Wow, that would be kind of cool, wouldn't it? A personalised greeting from your past self?

... is the thought process that led to this message. Because recently I've been looking over the Board's archives, and I thought it would be nice to leave something for our future.

So, hi! It's 2013. The PPC has been in existence for about eleven years, and the Board has been here for most of that. As I write, we're on our second (third?) PPC chat - this one is usually referred to as 'the IRC'. We have our own Wiki, with about two and a half thousand articles. And our plans for world domination have reached Phase Nine-Point-Five.

... no, all right, I'm kidding about that last one. We're only on Phase Six.

We have the usual population profile - lots of newbies, a whole bunch of Middlebies, and a small collection of Very Oldbies (like, say, me). A lot of our newbies these days come from a website called TVTropes, which has changed the demographics somewhat from the days when we were all refugees from Fanfiction.net. But hey, I assume your current source of influx is, like, a dating website or something. Times change, the Board remains.

Or does it?!?!?andotherpunctuation Certainly at the moment there seems to be no chance of the PPC giving up on the concept of a Board, but maybe things are different in the future. Hey, if you have time travel, could you... no, scratch that. I don't think I want to know what things are like. It might be depressingly bad - or depressingly good.

So where was I? We have a solid bunch of writers, working on missions, AUs, interludes - I've just finally written Origins. We have an active community in the IRC (or so I'm told - I don't visit). One thing we haven't had in a while is a UK Gathering, but we're hoping to pin one down sometime next year.

Anyway, I don't want to bore you, so I'll hang up now (that's a reference to telephones - the non-mobile kind - look, ask your parents, okay? Or, if you're a LONG way in the future, your grandparents). But I have a strong feeling (hint, hint!) that others in the community would like to leave you a message, too! So go for it, guys - I hope you can be funnier than me. ;)

Thank you for reading, Future!PPCers. I hope your world is as awesome as ours.

hS