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I'm feeling a bit odd tonight.

For some reason, I felt like wandering through old pages of the Two Guys' MB, and started remembering all the people who used to be so active on that board, and in the IRC channel I also frequented. People I haven't talked to since DAL.net died and forced the move of #tenchiff to a server that I couldn't reach on my java applet. People who haven't posted on that board in ages, either.

So, I started doing some web searches, to see if those who had webpages were still alive and kicking. I got decidedly mixed results.

Battousai_Kawaii's old Shayla-Shayla fanclub, HOTS, had two segments of the site still up: the members page and the officers pages. But the main page wasn't listed on the search results, nor were any of the other sub-sections of the site.

Prince_of_Light's still around, but his El Hazard fanfic site, while still easily found, seems to be moribund. Damned shame. He had a good layout, and the series itself deserves a good fic sanctuary.

K'Thardin, of course, is still alive. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, I'm hesitant to try talking to him again. It would be awkward at best. It's a waste of what was a good solid freindship. ;_; He was high on the list of my best friends back in the day. (Yeah, yeah, so it's been months, rather than a span of time which would justify the phrase 'back in the day'. Shut up.) I want to tease him about Lita, damn it, and talk about the adventures he's going to have at this year's AX, and try coaxing him into replacing K'Thulu. ;_;

Parrot King.... I have NO fricking clue where to find PK. The hentai is _smoke_. Vapor. Hiding better than an Orkan who's frightened. (My apologies to those of you who just had a Mork 'N Mindy reference fly right over your heads. ^_^ ::mutters:: Serves you right for being so damned young...) Somebody needs to hunt that man down and bribe him with cheese danishes until he finishes Bishounen Muyo, damn it. I don't _care_ if an alleged chapter two was posted on muyu.org. A) It was good, but not quite the same as an actual PK-written chapter would have been, no offense to the co-author. B) No more appear to be forthcoming! Bleah! Bleah, I say! We haven't even met half the cast yet! Also, I want to read well-crafted descriptions of all those males whom female-Tenchi will have fawning over her! Verbal fanservice, oh yeah.... ::grin, drool::

Seion's Knightly Order of Mihoshi Enthusiasts, which used to be at kome.dragonsanime.com, came up 'Site Not Found'. A websearch for the group's name turned up.... the _old_ site. o_O As in the site that existed before Seion took it over. Run by sombody named Coyote Blue, and not updated since 2000. I _know_ Seion's site has been updated since then. Hell, I didn't even know KOME existed back in 2000, and I've visited Seion's home for it in the intervening years.

Seion used to post pretty darned regularly on both AFC and Two Guys. When Two Guys started going into review stagnation, he stopped posting there, but could be seen on AFC once in a while. Then he started tapering off; then only posted when comments about Mihoshi sparked his interest or wrath. ::crooked grin:: Now not even a blatant reference to KOME, as in when Clayton or some other troll makes rude remarks about her or Kiyone and someone warns them to behave lest Seion and the Knights will attack, can delurk him. Has Idol Defense Force Hummingbird's most rabid fanboy gotten run over by a stray cabbit, perhaps?

I should really write to Knar_the_Mad, too, and catch him up on things. We've been friends a lot longer than just about any of my other online friends, and he does deserve at least a token effort at keeping things going. It'd be easier if the putz simply logged on once in a while. :b Last time he called me, which I think was over a month ago, I nagged him about it. He gave his usual excuse that the Net just doesn't interest him anymore. I can understand that to an extent, but as I told him, not a lot of incentive for me to send those "let's keep in touch" emails when I have no clue when he'll actually read them....

Realizing that he's the only one left of the first batch of friends I made online, years ago, feels really wierd. JT... well... JT turned out to be scum. Jedi_Tenaka and the rest faded away in a manner not uncommon among chance-met roleplaying friends online. Tara... Tara was my best friend for a damned long time, and I still miss her. But... well.... ::sigh:: She went through periods where she shunned the web, and since we never made it to the point of exchanging numbers and other real world contact info, that effectively cut us off from each other during those periods. Then she started getting far more heavily into the Gor role-playing group than I really enjoyed, and things faded away from there.

I hate when that happens to friendships.

Betty and Reinhard were, and I'm sure still are, great people, but since I no longer have the energy or the inclination to get as deeply into SCA as I once wanted to, our one real bonding point no longer exists. I suppose I could try e-mailing them, but they'd want me to start coming to baronial events again, and I don't particularly want to. It was fun, but it requires more research into a historical persona than I really want to do, in order to be a full participant. I think what I really need is an easy version of a roleplaying or Ren Fair group. ::grin:: Something where I can spend time with other people who enjoy that sort of thing without all the deep involvement.

Yes, I realize how lazy that makes me sound. :b

I should also work on that still not done C&C for Plug.... but damn it, right now I'm in lazy-ass, wallow-in-nostalgia mode. Not productive, intelligent, pre-reading mode. I'm sorry Plug. I have read it, though. You make my feeble attempts at fic writing look like such utter drek in comparision, and I loathe you for it. ^_^ It's enough to make me go find an Angsting Chair and burrow into the cushions in mock despair. ::pretends to pound her head into the keyboard like Don Music:: I'll never finish my fanfic! Never! ::thud, thud::

Thinking about _that_ has me thinking about Sylphiel, since she figures so largely in the less-finished of the two baby fics I've tried. And of course thinking of Sylphiel reminds me of the defunct Give Sylphiel A Chance Foundation. -_- Don't even get me started on that. It had so much promise. So did the member fic Cap_Twister was going to do. Now... well... if it were a parrot, it would be pining for the fjords, I tell you. ::sighs wistfully::

Taloon, if you're reading this, don't take that mini-whine personally. It wasn't your fault GSACF died. You couldn't afford to keep the site running. *I* can't even afford my own personal website, period. If we'd been able to attract a decent membership base like I wanted to, and rather feebly tried to, maybe we could have kept ourselves going. ::sigh:: But I fumbled all my attempts at growing the membership lists.

Heh. Not sure why I even started on this little quest. Boredom? Insomnia? Sudden attack of nostalgia? Maybe I just miss having people to babble at when it's 1 am and I fell like talking. ::shrug::

Bedtime for the bouncy lil dragon.