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aunt_zeldaThree years ago, this video was posted.
I watched it again tonight, for the first time in a long time. So overwhelmed by nostalgia. That little moment about 8 minutes in, that started something so big.
I was stressed about my senior project, about graduating high school, leaving home and going off to college. My future was exciting and incredibly frightening, and fandom was keeping me going.
And I watched this video on a whim, because "yay, Spoony update!" and got an idea, and posted it to the Kink Meme. And then it just ... grew. Into this huge, awesome thing. And it's still going. So many people have written for it, added to it, shared ideas and invented new plotlines and worked out conflicts and as the site has grown, so too has the character roster. Reviewers who didn't even have blip or youtube channels then are in the Denny's Court now.
It's very different from how it was, three years ago. It's not "better" or "worse" because you can't just sum all of this up into that, but it's bigger and spiraling out from like, this original tree. We can all trace stuff back to the source but it's grown so huge now. To the point where we need plot guides and character sheets to keep track of everything and there's talk of making a proper map of The City, or pinning down where The City in fact is, how we imagine it, whether we should even pin it down location-wise. It's alive, that's certain.
I started looking over some of the earliest fics, reading the comments I left back then, as a stressed and excitable senior in high school. I remember typing that stuff, but I feel ... well, not old, but something. Different? Yeah, different.
I don't know what I'm saying, just ... feeling nostalgic. Yeah.
I watched it again tonight, for the first time in a long time. So overwhelmed by nostalgia. That little moment about 8 minutes in, that started something so big.
I was stressed about my senior project, about graduating high school, leaving home and going off to college. My future was exciting and incredibly frightening, and fandom was keeping me going.
And I watched this video on a whim, because "yay, Spoony update!" and got an idea, and posted it to the Kink Meme. And then it just ... grew. Into this huge, awesome thing. And it's still going. So many people have written for it, added to it, shared ideas and invented new plotlines and worked out conflicts and as the site has grown, so too has the character roster. Reviewers who didn't even have blip or youtube channels then are in the Denny's Court now.
It's very different from how it was, three years ago. It's not "better" or "worse" because you can't just sum all of this up into that, but it's bigger and spiraling out from like, this original tree. We can all trace stuff back to the source but it's grown so huge now. To the point where we need plot guides and character sheets to keep track of everything and there's talk of making a proper map of The City, or pinning down where The City in fact is, how we imagine it, whether we should even pin it down location-wise. It's alive, that's certain.
I started looking over some of the earliest fics, reading the comments I left back then, as a stressed and excitable senior in high school. I remember typing that stuff, but I feel ... well, not old, but something. Different? Yeah, different.
I don't know what I'm saying, just ... feeling nostalgic. Yeah.
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Date: 2014-02-10 05:03 am (UTC)The Denny's Court is really what got Yersi and I to talk to each other, so I'll always be so grateful for it because she is my Braintwin. Going back and rereading those conversations with her, and with everyone else, is something I do every so often. Because it was my story, and then it just...kind of became everyone's.
And that's insane and awesome.