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She came, she meme'd, she departed, but it would be very hard to forget Twistey.

Pippa was very tricky to understand, and had a habit of taking attempted analogies extremely literally. She was also a deep-digging Tolkien fan whose Rohirric agents I am waiting for an opportunity to pilfer.

AnnaBee was only here for a brief while; she was a young, religious Tolkien fan who was sort of a protege of mine for a bit. Ultimately she ran afoul of some of the High Drama taking place on the Board; it's a shame, as I think she could have done great things here.

Ekyl could be melodramatic, but he was also probably the PPCer most invested in the Histories (after, y'know… me). He was the push that finally got me to write some version of Origins.

It's hard to believe Lily has left, with how deeply she invested herself in the PPC while she was here. I have so many memories of Lily, but the biggest one has to be that she drew fanart of my wedding (it's about halfway down).

I don't remember talking to Sara; what I remember is working with her to make the PPC Radio Plays, which are just about still available.

Fawkes is one of those old PPCers who's been on my mind a lot - because I keep writing about her characters! Agent Chelsea, original partner to Agent Kaitlyn, is hers, and OFUDisc's Phoebe is based on her student submission.

Fondy! It wasn't that long ago that Fondy reappeared briefly, and it was great to see her. Back in the day she was a constant presence on LJ.

Undeadgoat wrote a parody Suefic of me and her. That's all you need to know about what sort of person she was.

Hawkelf is an elf who lives in the ceiling. What more need be said?

You can't mention Ekwy without Milano; they went together like Swedish fish and… I don't know, something else Swedish. Another random Gathering attendee.

Ek'y! Writer of musicals and adorable kids, Ekwy was one of those mad people who travelled to the UK for the sole purpose of having a Gathering with me. She was great.

"It's all Newmoon's fault!" ~ me and Kaitlyn, about anything and everything, from 2004 down to today. Why is it all Newmoon's fault? I haven't the foggiest, but it totally is.

PDT was one of those people I got to know very well on Livejournal, but she was also a lively part of the inaugral PPC Gathering in Oxford.

Rath, AKA Saphy if you knew her through the Barrow-Downs, was the Nightmare Before Christmas-loving founder of the SilmFilm project. She was also very kind in ferrying me around Utah.

Creator of the PPC's favourite tabloid, and the person who pushed hard for Crashing Down to be completed, Starwind was a wonderful friend at a very trying time in my life.

Cofounder of DOGA and creator of Selene and the DOGAPlex, Raven was my girlfriend who joined the PPC with me and hung around until we went our separate ways.

My oldest friend, though I don't see much of her nowadays; I knew her both before and throughout university. Her Diary of an Undercover Sue was a spinoff of my own stories, which was and remains a huge honour.

Founder of the Department of Out-of-Character Hobbits, one half of Mari and Mip, Luthien is still the person I think of as an archetypical newbie - even if she's been gone for well over a decade.

Vemi was my second coauthor, and the driving force behind the Reorganisation until she left. Without her, 'Huinesoron the Historian' would likely never have come to be. She also started the thread which led to my invitation to the Board.

Our very own Morale Officer, and one of the most vibrant personalities of the early Board, bjam (it took me a year and a half to establish that that's 'bee-jam') was a great friend. You can tell - I went to visit her.

BiD wrote the very first thing you're required to read when joining the PPC - the poem at the top of the Constitution. Another great friend, even if she was a filthy Maglor-loving Feanorian Kinslayer.

WfR was the fifth member of the Five (with myself and Kaitlyn as the surviving pair). She was never as active in the PPC as the rest of us, but on LJ and MSN Messenger, she was brilliant.

Artemis' Aerilyn & Zera were the very first conscious effort to take missions back to the basics. Stack onto that the creation of the DIA, and the very phrase 'Flaming Denethor!', and Artemis is one to remember.

In two weeks, the PPC Board will be shutting down. Delta, Tomash and Thoth have built us a new home, and the community will continue there, but this old place - the one I've been coming back to day in, day out for over sixteen years - will be gone.

I have so many memories of the Board; there are so many people I met here, made friends with here, and ultimately said goodbye to here. And their names, and the memories that go with them, deserve to be spoken one last time.