Daily Entertainment.

[muji]

Holy god it is Friday finally.

Ever go read the Milliways archives? They're fun as hell. :D :D :D Try it.

(Can someone take DE on Monday? I'm gonna be in NJ for a wedding.)

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[innerbrat]

I've just come out of an explore! I miss all the DC pups we used to have,

[muji]

Ever say in a chatroom "Hey, do you remember when X did b when Y was c?" and realize that nobody even knew the characters you were talking about?

Yeah, I've totally done that.

[innerbrat]

I referenced Ro-Man in a post the other day and only Batya noticed.

But Mel still tells new people not to mention the dwarfs.

[muji]

Ro-Man's initial appearance was even kinda before my time. :O

[batyatoon]

... Still? How long's Snow been out of the bar?

*giggling*

[innerbrat]

She doesn't know why! It's just in the spiel. It's not like she actually listens to herself.

[genarti]

Okay, that's just awesome. *giggling*

[sdelmonte]

I recommend that people also look at Millichannel, for much early 2005 zaniness.

And this would be a good time to recommend people look for classic Roland threads.

Would offer to take over Monday, but will still be in NJ as well, for the con. (We are actually leaving in less than 30 minutes, but needed my daily fix of DE before going.) Have fun at the wedding.

[muji]

:-* and you have fun at your con, mister.

(I'm still upset nobody can see the dog in the Daffy icon. I think I'm going to outline him in Paint and email you.

And tell Batya I had seen the Daffy short, I just don't recognize titles.)

[batyatoon]

(Please do! I wanna see the dog and penguin!)

*snugs*

[muji]

*goes to, then*

[muji]

Sending now.

[shecalledmefred.livejournal.com]

Ummm I can do it I guess?

[muji]

:-*

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I'd say hopefully I'll be awake by then, but knowing my internal body clock...

[muji]

Meh, it's not like they're on a schedule. It just looks like one because I get to work the same time every day.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh. Wedding? Send booze. I need it to deal with my co-workers. Especially if it's champagne, cuz that comes in the really big whupass bottles.

[muji]

I imagine it will be ouzo, actually.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

THAT IS EVEN BETTER. OMG. I love ouzo. <3

Is it somewhere pretty?

[muji]

It's a country club in Paterson, Northern NJ? Never been, but knowing Liz it will be v. green.

[genarti]

Oh, man. Yes, but then I find myself SUCKED IN FOR HOURS and I don't get to bed until waaaaay too late and find myself missing all kinds of characters who haven't been around in years and stumbling around all bleary-eyed when I emerge from the NOSTALGIA TWILIGHT ZONE.

...But sometimes I do it anyway.

I was reading some threads the other day and came across the "And don't piss off anyone in all black or all white because they can probably kill you with their brain" bit that some people used to throw into the intro speech, and had a nostalgic giggle over it.

[adiva_calandia]

Nita still throws in the "don't piss off anyone who's monochromatic" thing! Between being friends with Havelock and Yrael, and the whole Blodwen thing, she figures it's still applicable.

I feel that there must be other sort of throwback things in Nita's Milliways interactions, but I can't think of them at the moment.

(. . . I used "thing" three times in this comment. Somewhere my writing teacher is groaning and doesn't know why.)

[genarti]

*approves!* It might've even been a Nita thread I read it in. I can't remember.

(I use "thing" waaaay too often. *solidarity* It's such a useful word!)

[adiva_calandia]

I usually end up going back to read my own threads, especially for characters like Eustace or Guinevere or Henry Fitzroy who aren't around any more but who had AWESOME stuff happen (and about 60% of the time I end up going "Holy crap, how was I writing that well back then? I don't remember writing that well back then!" Which is cool). Although recently I wanted to reference Tim's War (the first one) in an OOC communique and ended up trawling around early 2005 for a while.

It's always kind of weird for me to read the archives, especially that early 2005 period, because Milliways really permeated my life for those first few months. It was intense. I was in a touring show at the time, and I particularly remember one flight home where the flight attendants had to ask if there was anyone with first aid qualifications on-board. I actually had to stop myself from raising my hand, and remind myself that Nita is the healer, not me. Which is possibly a level of character bleed I shouldn't admit. >.>

Anyway, you know how certain smells can snap you into a memory in a blink? Reading the archives does that for me. I remember sitting at my computer after school doing my algebra homework and waiting tensely for tags to come in; of course, I remember clusterfucking Mina Harker-mun and Norrington-mun!Kate (before I knew her) by trying to do a three-way thread with little to no OOC communication. Woohoo, newbie mistakes.

And I remember sitting backstage composing threads and OOMs and tags in my head, and I remember writing some of my best poetry inspired by in-bar happenings, and I remember reading Dark Tower, and watching Firefly with friend at a camp I didn't have Internet access and having to stifle a whispered "Charyou tree!" during "Safe" because none of them would get it.

rymenhild and I were talking the other day about how crazy it is that I'm in college now, and we've known each other since I was in high school, and now here we are discussing grad school possibilities. In-freaking-sane.

. . . Um, I seem to have gotten some nostalgia all over your post. Lemme get a towel. >.>

[muji]

I MADE THIS POST FOR NOSTALGIA WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LOVE YOU ADIVA.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Adiva, I love you. *snugs* You remember how we started crazy plotting on the VERY FIRST THREAD we ever did together? And it was epic and huge and TOASTERS and oh my God, reading my writing from back then makes me cringe so much.

I think about it sometimes too-- how crazy it is that we're ... grown up now, dude. Or well on our way, at least-- remember being the babies around here? It still surprises me every time I stop by crackchat and realize that I'm not the littlest roleplayer anymore. :O

In a strange way, I think Milliways makes me cognizant of the fact that the path I've started taking isn't at all the one I'd have expected of myself even last year. Things have changed around here, but not as much as you'd imagine-- for me, it's been a constant for the past almost-four years. Something I can always come back to. And in a very strange way, it's almost a way to gauge how I am now as opposed to how I was then.

I'm ... not going to wax TOTALLY goopy nostalgic here, but I really do value my time at Milliways. It's made me a better writer, it gave me friends when I didn't have any, and it's been a pretty cracktastic adventure all around. <3s, everybody.

[vivien]

Oh, hon, we love your nostalgia.

Yeah, the first several months were so intense. I remember being on my summer break from teaching, and I'd wake up early and go to bed late, and pretty much be online just about as much as I could in between. So so bad. And then when I had to go back to school, I'd call Aspen every day at lunch for an update on what happened while I was asleep. Oh man.

[vivien]

All. The. Freaking. Time.

I actually spend more time going through my various memories, but yeah, on night's when I don't have the energy to RP, I will often pull up something old to marvel at. Sometimes on nights when I've had one or two threads and it's slow-going, I've picked a random day in 2005 and gone through and tagged the entries of characters I was familiar with. It's a sickness, this need to organize.

It's neat to see that Ingress actually has grown in the years since I've played her; I always worry about that. And Tom - hee, hee, hee. He's evolved so much. Siiiigh.