Suddenly feeling super depressed about golden times that happened 20 years ago and are never coming again. Blah. This, too, shall pass.
@balinares When this is all over, I really want as many of us who will still speak to each other to get together, somehow somewhere, and basically have our own Big Chill/Return of the Secaucus 7* moment.
(*two very similar films about a bunch of ex-hippies reuniting in middle age and taking stock of their lives)
@zebratron2084 In the community whose long cold demise I suddenly find myself achingly mourning right now, I don't even know where people went. Re-reading logs, I realize I'd all but forgotten most of those people, whom I adored.
This is a horrible feeling. I'm taking it hard.
(length cut)
@balinares It definitely came as a shock to me. I've peeked at some of my old follower lists from LJ accounts recently and... yeah. Lost track of so many people I swore I'd never lose track of. We got blasted by cultural change we could never have seen coming and we're still picking up the pieces. *hug*
It especially blows my mind that something as seemingly simple as "a queer-friendly freeform text RP scene" would turn out to be so damn hard to preserve. Especially NOW where i meet people every freakin' day on Birdsite that would have fit in perfectly.
re: (length cut)
@zebratron2084 Yeah. I don't know what changed, but sometime through the 2000's, little by little, everyone lost the kind of time- and brain-leisure that ongoing engagement on a MU* requires, and all the places died. This sucks. It's a worse world now.