InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Nyar."

blue_moonlight (blue_moonlight) wrote,
@ 2008-02-12 02:55:00

Current mood:	depressed
Current music:	"Hurt"---Christina Aguilera

It's been a while...
Looks like "Resurgence" will not be up by Valentine's Day. LOL sorry if you were waiting for it (I highly doubt it.) I'll be honest, the urge to write MMX fanfics is fading fast. It's a combination of lots of personal opinions, some of which I rather not get into because feelings might get hurt. Ever since I transferred my fanfic journal over to IJ, everything changed for the confusing. I doesn't feel the same anymore. It don't feel the same closeness with the fandom as I did on GJ. Plus, I've come to the conclusion that no one cares about my fanfics anymore. I might still post fics in the near future, but don't expect weekly updates.

In other news: Edgeworth and the fangirls. OMG. You know Capcom put this in for lolz. And I thank them.

ugh. I tried embedding the video, but IJ won't let me. There needs to be some "embed video" option here.

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	mystery_muse 2008-02-14 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	Y'know, I'm sorry to hear that you're not enjoying the community that much any more. A community's always going to be something of an amorphous thing, especially when we have a userbase with such a wide range of interests and interpretations as we do about the canon. Can you give me some reasons why you're not happy? (Reply to this) (Thread)

blue_moonlight
2008-02-15 03:02 am UTC (link)

It's not that I don't enjoy the community anymore and what it has to offer. I, for some reason, feel left out, and I think it has a lot do do with how abrupt the move was from GJ to IJ. I'll be honest, it was a hassle to archive everything and I'm sure it was the same with everybody. I was even contemplating not transferring my journal. Another thing is motivation. It's just not there anymore. It's not that I'm giving up writing. I think I'm going through another writer's block where I can't come up with great storylines. Then there are other personal issues that I don't want to get into.

But I think it's temporary. Once I get everything in order (possibly take a break), I'll get back to writing fanfics.

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tl;dr, late due to severe illness

mystery_muse
2008-02-20 06:00 pm UTC (link)

It's not that I don't enjoy the community anymore and what it has to offer. I, for some reason, feel left out, and I think it has a lot do do with how abrupt the move was from GJ to IJ.

I can sympathize. Making the decision to move from one server to another was painful, and yes, it was an inconvenience to everyone- especially to me, who took on the burden of rebuilding the community from the ground up (not as easy as it looked!), paying for it out of pocket, and then searching around for a way to archive the prior material in a portable way that would satisfy the needs of those who were concerned about archiving the original material. Ultimately, I feel the move was a greatly beneficial one. But no, it wasn't something that was going to be up to member debate. I moved the community because I was concerned about its future viability and to me that trumped consensus in this single instance.

I had been hearing complaints from people outside GJ that they couldn't join the community on GJ, and my administrator account simply ceased functioning a couple of days before the move, making it extremely difficult for me to manage the community the way that I wanted to. The layout was never how I wanted it to look, the increasing user restrictions and unreliable server stifled my plans for the spinoff to RP_elysium, and so on. There were a host of reasons that went into the decision.

GJ would actually not have been my first choice to establish R_E had I had a little smidge more time in doing research- so that's entirely my bad. The decision to move was also primarily my decision, and as a result, I bear and bore the consequences of it in full upon myself.

I think it's good to remember that R_E was an experiment to begin with, regardless of what server it is on (and it won't be moving a second time, IJ is home for good); a way of consolidating and opening up discussions that had begun on LJ to give us more expansion room for those discussions and an easier way to roll back and find those discussions for later story-mining.

I'm sorry to hear that motivation isn't there for you any more. Unfortunately, I can't help with that. :D

I guess in closing I'd say only that a community is what its members collectively make it- if you're not happy with what you're seeing talked about, wanting to see more talk about pre-X6 games/art, or don't feel comfortable with the wannabee science-dork geekery some of us throw around, then post topics that are of interest to you. I started the RP because it sounded fun, and some members joined and some didn't- that's OK too.

I encourage people to post what they want to see, read, and discuss on the comm. Variety is good! Some of us like things one way, some another- and that's fine, it's how it should be.

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