Feeling Nostalgic...

...if there really were any good ol' days?

I just can't believe that it's been over ten years since I've sat down and did any online roleplaying in chatrooms. I'm wondering if we should try to organize something...we have lots of wonderful writers and creative minds here, it'd be great to interact in real time.

Am I the only one here who remembers imaqtz, and the ridiculously angsty rp we'd do as Joe and Katse?

Maybe I'm just getting old. Maybe I need more medication. Or less. I'm not terribly sure anymore.

Katse

There's a group of us who meet every week for a chat - and it usually includes some RP in it - mostly to do with the Gatchamaniacs IF.

But you're right - this board has some of the best Gatch/BotP etc., writers out there.

Ten years ago - I'd had an internet capable computer for 12 months and had started writing on Embroidery for www.bellaonline.com!

Wow - that's a long time ago.

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"When I'm old, I don't want them to say of me, "She's so charming." I want them to say, "Be careful, I think she's armed." -G. Stoddart

Exactly ten years ago was the period during which my life was turning an extreme upside down, with great highs, and bitter lows, all at the same time. The only place I used a computer was at work ... needless to say, I didn't even imagine that there could have been this kind of fun in existence!

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

Imi, there's a name from the past we haven't seen for a long time. Last she was on I think her daughter joined up on here too. Not sure what happened, or why they disappeared.


10 years ago, I was still trying to surf the net on web tv. Or bugging my fiance then to let me use his computer, it wasn't too long after I had seen a Gatch site, just never stuck around much to see what happened to it.

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Racer by day, Feather Thrower all the time!

Ten years ago, I had just gone back to school with a toddler, a preschool, and one in elementary school who was misdiagnosed with ADD/ADHD, among others. For online, when I had time I was mostly researching geneology stuff with my cousin and might have just discovered the HP fandom online.

Now, I'm out of school with a degree that's not much use in this economy, but I wouldn't change it. My toddler and preschooler are both in middle school and very active in both the school and community. My elementary schooler was rediagnosed with Asperger's which umbrellas most of his other misdiagnosis as well; he has passed the CHSPEE and is now taking classes at the community college and helping his grandmother. I don't speak to my cousin, and more active here than in the HP fandom where I mostly lurk now. I did know Gatchaman existed, learned about that around 1995, but wasn't into researching it at the time.

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Ten years ago I'd just found Wendy's White Shadow site via Wizard magazine. That magazine was going crazy over the upcomig BotP comic. I'd known BotP had come from Gatchaman, but I knew nothing about Gatchaman. I read Out of the Shadows and fell in love but was soooooo glad they hadn't done what happened to Joe to Jason. I already had boxes of hand written BotP fanfics and it took a few more years for me to actually join a Gatch related group.

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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers so far...

Ten years ago ... gosh ... I had just begun working in a law office as a secretary after graduating with a Master's in Audiology. It was, and wasn't, a waste of time and money. Although I'm not doing what I studied to do, I wouldn't change my three years in Rhode Island for anything -- I loved my time there and if I ever get a chance to live there again, I would in a heartbeat.

I also still thought I was the only one in the universe who even remembered BotP. All of my fanfics I wrote only in my mind; didn't bother to type any of them out because I didn't think anyone but me cared. Funny thing is, I didn't even know that I was coming up with fanfics. Never even knew such a thing existed until about six months ago ...

Wasn't really on the internet all that much, then. But, boy, have I made up for it since! *snicker*

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"It is a rare man that is taken for what he truly is...We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream...." Peter S. Beagle

I wandered onto ff dot net just looking around, and found the Gatchaman and BotP entries.

Next thing I knew, I was re-imagining Katse, and things rolled from there. (I have an unused fic that predates the development of my AU, and both 'Rescue Mission' and 'POV' also predate it.)

But I think the first fic I put up was 'Her Doctor' under Doctor Who.

Then 'Zark'. I was working on memory when I wrote it.

So I'm not as involved in fandom as some.

But a friend and I came up with some nutty AUs of our own just for fun. She created a total Mary Sue for herself. Heh.

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Well, it's amazing to see where we all have been, and wonder where we'll be in another decade!

If anyone wants to meet for online chat, that'd be neat...I don't want to crash anyone's chat, so I'll just wait to see what happens.

Katse

All are welcome to chat as long as they don't mind us sometimes yakking about the IF - hey, if it motivates someone to join in with the IF, that would be just fine too!

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