Nostalgia

[wook77]

Like everyone else, I had a rather, err, interesting geocities webpage series. Mainly, it was a bunch of sites about my various dogs but it also had a few of my first online get togethers on there. Before I entered fandom and went to cons, I was part of a group called the TriviaRegs and, before that, The Brats. We dominated the trivia chatrooms of Yahoo. We were elitist jerks and we loved it. We had our own set of rules on how to interact with others and woe to the person that violated those rules (NO NUMBER QS). In 2000, we had our first get together in Chicago and I just spent an hour or so revisiting memories from that get together. Oh man, the memories.

From there, it was Pleasure Island and Vegas and San Fran and Chicago once more. I organized the Vegas one and omg, so much fun to do. I still have my t-shirts with and without signatures. There was wank and the occasional kerfluffle but, all in all, a brilliant bunch of folks. You could almost say that this was my first online fandom, even if it was random trivia. I still talk to some of these people years later. I just found one of the last photos of a friend of mine and her husband. He had a massive coronary like a week after the photo was taken.

I'm feeling super nostalgic and I'm sort of sad that geocities is going away, even if I rarely visit.

I grabbed photos off my webpages as that's all I really had to lose. I'm sad to see some of the X-Men fic disappear because that's only on geocities.

I'm all super nostalgic right now, which is all right since it was my birthday and I always turn introspective and contemplative around then. I've been mainlining Knights of the Old Republic and I'm falling in love with Canderous and Carth all over. I love the slash, don't get me wrong but in this fandom, het is the OTP. I have such a tough time choosing between Carth and Canderous. Canderous is all ubermale and Carth is the touchyfeely angstflyboy. They're both lovely but I cannot see anything with them together.

And ugh, finished Korriban but, dude, what a waste of time because there was no Dustil and I can't have no Dustil because Dustil makes Carth happy :( (yeah, like all of 3 of you will get what I'm angsting about here). So, off to Tatooine and then to redo Korriban.

Why, yes, this is how I've been spending my vacation. :D I have one more day and then right back into 60-70 hours a week of work again.

Comments

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE NO DUSTIL!!! WE NEEDS HIM. Poor wooby Carth. I love wooby Carth, btw. I just finished with Dustil and am off to the Hermit in the Hills. The only slash in KOTOR is Juhani/girl!Revan. And it's unrequited. Though, I do like the possibilities there.

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing, as I told a friend, I used my geocities as a place to toss photos up to for posting here on LJ back in the days before the scrapbook and Flickr et. al. You know, when you had to have a server to put them on. Hehe. 'Course, that was also back in the days of invite codes. ;)

So, yeah, most of that post was completely over my head, but I know what Tatooine is, so I have a basic idea. ;)

[dark0feenix.livejournal.com]

Yays for enjoying the vacation and happy belated birthday wishes!!! :)

[wendy.livejournal.com]

If you're nostalgic, then this is the right place for me to send you hugs! So....*hugs*