Celestial Moth
Guardian of the Tree of Time
I just realized that thunderous kinda looks like lord Shiva, and i think that's pretty cool.
Aww that sounds sad in a loyaly nostalgic way.I'm feeling sad. And nostalgic.
I just spent the past hour browsing a forum which died a long, long time ago which I was a part of. It's actually the sister forum of another forum which was deleted due to inactivity but we were still a very tight little community. There were many reasons to join apart from the central theme of the forums (a book series) but the main appeal now that I look back was the community itself. I remember when the company which owned the books and the forums announced it would be closing a rush of old members came flooding back, writing laments to the forums and what it meant to them and how it helped them in their hour of need - and there were some really serious cases in the past, but the people helped one another through the dark and difficult times to carry on to the next.
Hell, I miss it. I miss the old days of posting in forums where there were about 50 regular members and you knew all of them, and the threads were filled with waffle joy and randomness and bright and surprising discussions. Serebii is all well and good but it's very large and can be a bit impersonal sometimes because of that. I dunno, I just want the old days back. I miss my freedom, I miss my childhood. I miss talking to people who would actually post something pleasant instead of writing something condescending and stinging for the pure reason of making themselves feel good because they think they're cool by being bitter and sarcastic. Users would post in near perfect English and grammar would be something to be respected, not thrown aside and cast away into the depths of internet hell as I have witnessed so many times. I mean, once I started browsing other forums I realised just how much I took proper grammar on the internet for granted. Hell, there are some people online who act as if English is something which doesn't even exist as an art form and as a writer it pains me to see that on a daily basis. I remember that Prose was melodic and free flowing, and it was taken seriously as something which would eventually be integral to all of our lives each in our own individualistic way.
Noobs weren't ridiculed, they were embraced, as long as they had the sense to act with a little decorum in the place. There was no snobishness, only a feeling that posts were easy to read yet linguistically advanced and threads were accessible to all so one could surf every single sub-forum on the site without having to feel shunned or out of place.
But the last hours were grim, to say the least. There was a big argument concerning what should happen to the forum - some people argued that it should be left to those who would want to keep on posting but others argued that it should be closed down indefinately and not to let it drag on so the pain could be nipped in the bud. Unfortunately the former option was decided (well, not "decided", it just sort of happened) and it's... gone now.
I miss my friends. In short, it was like a second home to me, with kind people and rules to prevent the place from becoming a dusty old wreck.
But it did. Visiting it now... is like going back to a house you used to live in years ago in a town that's now abandoned. Looking at the dusty old relics and rooms, all the memories come flooding back but that's all there is left. Memories.
Ah, never mind. At the end of the day who cares anyway...
Stress sucks. Hope it isn't too bad.I am kinda stressed lately.