Television Without Pity (TWoP)

[fabrisse]

Many, many of the people on my friends list, and several of you who've become friends face-to-face, are people I originally met through the forums at TWoP.

I have been a member there since May 22, 2000. I didn't hit Stalker status at the website until well into the first season of Smallville. My first forays into the pseudo-html code the forums

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[eanja]

I have known you for so long now that I'd almost forgotten I met you due to TWOP at that Smallville convention. I haven't posted there for years, but I did intermittently read the recaps and sometimes the forums, and I will miss the Site.

[fabrisse]

We've been friends for 14 years. I met jerminating and shawn_club and several others with whom I still keep in touch through TWoP. It's amazing.

(And in honor, I'm using my last remaining Smallville icon.)

[eanja]

I just realized that I too learned about lj from TWOP. And got my invite, back when one still needed them, from someone or other in the local smallville group.

I only knew Shawn slightly through you (though I still have a cozy sweater that he left w/ me), so have not heard anything about him in years. I'll really need to call you sometime and catch up and ask how all these people are doing that I haven't managed to stay in touch with myself.

[cxw1065]

I am in mourning- for a website.

Seems silly, I know, but like you I've been with TWoP for a loooooooong time. I've been through so much with that website- bereavement, success, joy, terror, happiness.

It has been a safe place for me to lose myself for hours at a time, when needed.

It will be sorely missed, leaving an empty space in my heart, and on my bookmarks bar.

RIP TWoP

[fabrisse]

I know I'll miss the safe space. And the discussions that could range from "Wow, that was slashy" to in-depth exegeses referencing classical mythology and medieval literature.

I learned about LJ from TWoP.