Ah, those crazy days

[lazypadawan]

I watched AOTC on Spike this evening and it brings back the gooey summer days of 2002. Boy, it sure was nice having all of that time on the Metro to crank out A/P fic or finding "inspiration" by visiting places like Ellicott City, MD. Looking back on the type of stuff I wrote then as I post it all on FanFiction.net, it wasn't as hopelessly mushy as I feared ;). I always wrote that stuff bearing in mind that somehow, someway it was bound to come to a tragic end and even so, not every moment of their time together was full of angst and dark foreboding. There had to have been moments of great happiness and joy, and a lot of of my 2002-2003 A/P fic reflected the giddier moments seen in AOTC.

After the recent Metro train wreck, I got a message from someone on the old A/P Defenders thread on TFN I hadn't heard from in ages. The person didn't know I'd moved cross-country since then but after reassuring the person I was a safe 2500 miles from the carnage, I was inspired to look at the old A/P Defenders posts from summer 2002. Then I realized how much I really miss the great discussions that took place. It felt like at times I was actually learning something. What makes it even more painful now is how uninspiring a lot of SW discussion online has become. Twitter is nice for finding out something fast--it's how I found out Michael Jackson had died--but the format just doesn't allow for anything more. Most message boards are full of the same stupid crud. Metas are a dying artform even on formats like LiveJournal.

*Sigh.*

Comments

[rkc-erika.livejournal.com]

Yeah I miss our big crazy A/P defenders days also from our crazy weekend online chats to our huge discussions about A/P it was fun. I've moved on and run a bunch of different TV show websites so I don't have time to crank out my world class deep and thought provoking essays like I used to, much less think of writing anything. Once in a blue moon I'll stop over at TF.N to see what's going on but I've put SW behind me.

I do have that my Legend of the Seeker fanboard has a very A/P vibe to it, not as many active male participants though as we had w/ the Defenders, but our members are crazy bonkers for our favorite ship like we Defenders were.

TF.N taught me what I like about fanboards and what I don't so I'll always appreciate my time there. I do miss my friends from there, but you know we all move on :(

Erika aka PLJ

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

You never know, maybe one day you'll be back ;).