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Nostalgia as a blunt object
Oh. My. God.
Okay, so, I'm in this guild on Gaia. In our chat thread, two of our members brought up the old game Creatures.
The memories came FLOODING. Creatures was one of the two fandoms I was ever actually active in. (The other was South Park. I was also active in alt.fan.dragons for a long time, but I don't count that as fandom. XD) I played that game all the time, I read the newsgroup all the time, I had about a million Creatures sites I went to for new cobs... There's still a few websites up, though most of the biggest and best are gone, and of the ones that remain only a precious few have even updated in the last year or two. God. I remember when this community was bursting at the seams with life and energy, and now it feels like a ghost town. Even the newsgroup, the last time I checked, felt sluggish and aimless.
More than any past fandom of mine, Creatures depresses me, because I remember when it was such a wonderful, vibrant, generally good-natured community, and now it's a mere shadow of its former glory. Sigh. :(
...
But anyway! I have digressed.
Having my nostalgia attack inevitably led to remembering my major contribution to the community: fan fiction.
I had an ongoing fic series, with several sidestories that figured into the internal canon. The series, called Grenorn, was really popular and I have no idea why! O_O This was all happening when I was, like, twelve! Thirteen! I'm nineteen now, and when I look back at stuff I wrote just three years ago I cringe in pain. My Creatures-era writing was a million times worse. X_.
And it's still archived in places, oh good god.... *writhes* I hunted it out of nostalgia, and I'm rereading the first installment now. Oh, god. Young Alyssa, meet storytelling. Please. It will be your friend. I had an idea of what a plot was, but a very dim concept of realistic characterization and a bit of a problem with showing vs. telling.
Oy. And I'll probably reread as much of the series as was archived and was not eaten on my computer by the ravages of past crashes. Because as bad as it is, it represents a real golden age in my Internet history... and I had a cast of characters that are still dear to my heart. It'll be a love-hate sort of thing. XD
(I have decided that I need a pretty, wispy Amano icon other than my Justice one, for wistful and pensive entries like this one. XD)
Okay, so, I'm in this guild on Gaia. In our chat thread, two of our members brought up the old game Creatures.
The memories came FLOODING. Creatures was one of the two fandoms I was ever actually active in. (The other was South Park. I was also active in alt.fan.dragons for a long time, but I don't count that as fandom. XD) I played that game all the time, I read the newsgroup all the time, I had about a million Creatures sites I went to for new cobs... There's still a few websites up, though most of the biggest and best are gone, and of the ones that remain only a precious few have even updated in the last year or two. God. I remember when this community was bursting at the seams with life and energy, and now it feels like a ghost town. Even the newsgroup, the last time I checked, felt sluggish and aimless.
More than any past fandom of mine, Creatures depresses me, because I remember when it was such a wonderful, vibrant, generally good-natured community, and now it's a mere shadow of its former glory. Sigh. :(
...
But anyway! I have digressed.
Having my nostalgia attack inevitably led to remembering my major contribution to the community: fan fiction.
I had an ongoing fic series, with several sidestories that figured into the internal canon. The series, called Grenorn, was really popular and I have no idea why! O_O This was all happening when I was, like, twelve! Thirteen! I'm nineteen now, and when I look back at stuff I wrote just three years ago I cringe in pain. My Creatures-era writing was a million times worse. X_.
And it's still archived in places, oh good god.... *writhes* I hunted it out of nostalgia, and I'm rereading the first installment now. Oh, god. Young Alyssa, meet storytelling. Please. It will be your friend. I had an idea of what a plot was, but a very dim concept of realistic characterization and a bit of a problem with showing vs. telling.
Oy. And I'll probably reread as much of the series as was archived and was not eaten on my computer by the ravages of past crashes. Because as bad as it is, it represents a real golden age in my Internet history... and I had a cast of characters that are still dear to my heart. It'll be a love-hate sort of thing. XD
(I have decided that I need a pretty, wispy Amano icon other than my Justice one, for wistful and pensive entries like this one. XD)
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I gut people for mentioning HoloDeck. I can't figure out why that was insanely popular, either.
Also, you can still download and play Docking Station. It'd be cool to have someone to play with, cough cough hack hint hint.
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Ah, HoloDeck... I do remember that. XD
Man... I reread about as much of Grenorn as still existed on my hard drive last night, and wow. The early stories were crap, the middle stories were getting better, and then I just kept dragging the damn thing out and relying on characters and events from roleplay with Pinstar and it just got BAD. I was thinking about trying to rewrite, but I'll never be able to. *claws own eyes out* I made author's notes in the narrative too. I think I broke every writing rule that exists. I should present myself for a group flogging on ficbitch_anon.
Docking Station! I really should try that, but I just never could bring myself to care about anything related to C3 as I thought it was just hopelessly ugly.
...Currently debating whether I should re-install C1 or C2...