OOC
There are certain things that are inevitable within the worlds we inhabit. Interests will be born, even as others fade. Ideas will come and go. Friends will be born and sadly sometimes die. But in between? Through it all? There is the magnificent up and down and here and there and sideways of it all.
There is the written word.
What we share together. How we communicate. The ones that made us laugh and the ones that made us cry. The ones that kept us up until 4am. The ones that we thought about on the drive to work. That next sentence, that next thought, that next emotion. The journeys that are utterly unique to the people we took them with.
Some of us have been doing this for a long time now. We are not all friends with the people that we started some journeys with. Some we have grown into something deeper with, past the online world. Some? We have slipped into lovely, but casual acquaintances. Some we might not speak to at all.
But if you are like me?
You still revisit those journeys, those once upon a times.
So this is a request for everyone, out there to reflect back over their journeys and to make sure they are protected through the upcoming LJ purge. The memories attached to them should not matter, as much as they are simply, inherently memorable. Because not just journals are in danger, but communities as well. Communities that might hold entire bodies of work that are larger than any of us.
Please, those of us that were former moderators? Or have posting status? Protect what so much time and effort once went to create.
Because even if not all journeys linger?
The word should remain.
UPDATE : LJ has since redefined what they consider inactive for something that more favors roleplaying journals and communities. That said, I know I will now take past work and memories less for granted and do my best to ensure they are protected.
There is the written word.
What we share together. How we communicate. The ones that made us laugh and the ones that made us cry. The ones that kept us up until 4am. The ones that we thought about on the drive to work. That next sentence, that next thought, that next emotion. The journeys that are utterly unique to the people we took them with.
Some of us have been doing this for a long time now. We are not all friends with the people that we started some journeys with. Some we have grown into something deeper with, past the online world. Some? We have slipped into lovely, but casual acquaintances. Some we might not speak to at all.
But if you are like me?
You still revisit those journeys, those once upon a times.
So this is a request for everyone, out there to reflect back over their journeys and to make sure they are protected through the upcoming LJ purge. The memories attached to them should not matter, as much as they are simply, inherently memorable. Because not just journals are in danger, but communities as well. Communities that might hold entire bodies of work that are larger than any of us.
Please, those of us that were former moderators? Or have posting status? Protect what so much time and effort once went to create.
Because even if not all journeys linger?
The word should remain.
UPDATE : LJ has since redefined what they consider inactive for something that more favors roleplaying journals and communities. That said, I know I will now take past work and memories less for granted and do my best to ensure they are protected.