[fandom. missing everything.]
nakama is a scanlation group translating yaoi mangas and it’s been running for OVER 10 YEARS. i was there watching it being formed. jesus christ, ten fucking years. a decade.
i was sixteen back then, the community was fun and tight, centered around irc chatrooms, bots and fileservers before hosting sites killed our little world and we scattered around. i really miss a lot the sense of belonging back then. as much as i overgrew yaoi long time ago (i still tend to read and have fun but i often do it through tears of “OH MY GOD, NO”) being with people like that was so fun. i’ve lost all friends from back then years ago when irc started to slowly die, people were growing up/quitting/moving on with their interests. i wonder what my weenies are doing now - did ecla get married? did eri move out with her girlfriend? is mommy’s hut with mangas continuously growing? i don’t even remember ¾ of them, their names and nicks. but i do remember how insanely fun it was. having irc open all the time and just casually chatting.
but then, when irc stopped being necessity, the community had also. it’s never stopped being sad. people moving on and friendships or all sorts breaking, fading, disappearing.
even all the wonderful ladies who founded nakama are long gone from scanlation world.
i wonder if they still keep in touch with each other and read yaoi mangas. they were like these goddesses of yaoi community.
long gone.
what’s been lost, what’s been found, what belongs to me.
i was sixteen back then, the community was fun and tight, centered around irc chatrooms, bots and fileservers before hosting sites killed our little world and we scattered around. i really miss a lot the sense of belonging back then. as much as i overgrew yaoi long time ago (i still tend to read and have fun but i often do it through tears of “OH MY GOD, NO”) being with people like that was so fun. i’ve lost all friends from back then years ago when irc started to slowly die, people were growing up/quitting/moving on with their interests. i wonder what my weenies are doing now - did ecla get married? did eri move out with her girlfriend? is mommy’s hut with mangas continuously growing? i don’t even remember ¾ of them, their names and nicks. but i do remember how insanely fun it was. having irc open all the time and just casually chatting.
but then, when irc stopped being necessity, the community had also. it’s never stopped being sad. people moving on and friendships or all sorts breaking, fading, disappearing.
even all the wonderful ladies who founded nakama are long gone from scanlation world.
i wonder if they still keep in touch with each other and read yaoi mangas. they were like these goddesses of yaoi community.
long gone.
what’s been lost, what’s been found, what belongs to me.