It's so very odd...

[thistlechaser]

(DW edit: Finally remembered to re-import my LJ here, so I have a backup of it.)

By chance, I found an old LJ of mine. It's an IC account, for a character I used to RP 5+ years ago. haken_the_dk Not only did I forget it existed, I forgot everything I wrote in it, so I get to read it now as if it were totally new to me.

It's so so so so odd to like what I wrote. I'm sitting here grinning as I say to myself "This is so good!", then being all embarrassed because it's my own writing and who says that about their own work?

This is also strange, but: It's odd to hear my "voice" in these posts -- I still use a lot of the same phrasing and such. It's not strange that I still use them, it's strange that that seems strange to me.

I wish I had saved more RP logs from that time. I wonder if I have them around somewhere? And I need to somehow back up these LJ posts so I don't ever lose them for good.

I'd really like to contact the person I was RPing with at the time, Mornherald (on DW), but not only do I not really know how to get in contact with him anymore, I worry how we left things. Way too often, when I have a one-on-one RP partner, it always ends badly. I don't know why. I seem to remember having contact with him post-RP though, so maybe we left things okay.

I wish I had more time. There are 90-something IC posts, and I've only gotten through ten of them, and it's about time to log for bed. I'm reading backwards, but I really should stop and go back to the beginning and start there.

Edit: Okay, the earliest ones aren't as good as the later ones. I guess that makes sense, it would have taken me some time to develop the character's voice. So if you glance at that LJ to see an example of what I think is good, be sure to look at the latest/newest posts!

Also, I found an old OOC journal of Mornherald's, last updated last year, and left him a comment. Hopefully it will go to an email account he still checks!

Comments

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I've found some of my old WoD logs to similar effect. ..

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

WoD = World of Darkness or something else?

Sure is fun rereading them, isn't it?

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

World of Darkness. Changeling.

It really is!

[rivulet027]

I don't think that's odd at all. A lot of the platforms I used to RPG on aren't around anymore and I do miss being able to reread stuff occasionally. For my fic I try to write what I'd want to read so if I find myself going back and enjoying rereading it then I think I did a good job with it.

[thistlechaser]

Thanks for the comment! It's amusing that this post was about a LJ account that I forgot I had had... I forgot I had this DW account until I saw your comment. Clearly my memory is going. :P

All my current posts are on my LJ: http://thistle-chaser.livejournal.com/

[rivulet027]

Okay. :) Will friend you on LJ then, I'm trying to use mine more anyway.

[thistlechaser]

Woot, that works! :)

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, everything ended fine between y'all, it was the third party that drove in a wedge out of superhuman jealousy that Haken and Morn were a couple and Morn wouldn't cheat on Haken with (ew) the living.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that, and I'm pretty sure I remember who it was. (The same thing broke up another RP partnership of mine soon after Haken's, jealous third party...) Sad thing, it'd be so much more fun to just RP with everyone!

No reply yet on the comment I left, but it was late last night and it's still early this morning. I hope he sees it!

Edit AGAIN because I am BOUCY yet sorry for spamming you: I've been going through my email account, looking for old logs and such. So much good stuff! A bunch of letters from Greyspell/Meej. :D HE WAS THE BESTEST!

I did not bring the phoenix of my acquaintance because she is very young yet, and because you are a death knight, and because I am not. I have noted in my short knowledge of your actions towards others that the strict sense of possession that usually characterizes Thalassian personal dealings is somewhat absent in your worldview.

AND

Those books in my possession are not for sale, for they belong to the House of Greyspell entire, and not simply to myself. They are for something larger than I am, and I will keep them against the day there is another to read them. However, for those volumes I deem it best for you to read, it may be possible to scribe copies. I will consider this. We will at that time discuss fair renumeration.

Incidentally I do not know how the Kalu'ak of your adopted home deal in currency, but I do not accept dead fish as sufficient payment.

SNICKERING

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

It's cool you found them that way!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed! :D