TFF is 10 years old now
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That it is 10 years old? Hell Yeah! Its Happy Sad.
Time is something we will never get back. Time is something that just by passing irrevocably changes us for good and bad.
Acknowledging the passing of time... Is reflecting on our continued existence. The continued existence of TFF in this case.
It is ten years of experiences, 10 years of memories that while we will forever have in our memories will never again live.
Then comes the inevitable acceptance of the trajectory of TFF.
Its life as a cradle of creativity is dare I say it, Over.
From those few starting embers a culture, a village, a community has gathered and laid roots.
The fire is gone; how long can the community continue?
That it is 10 years old? Hell Yeah! Its Happy Sad.
Time is something we will never get back. Time is something that just by passing irrevocably changes us for good and bad.
Acknowledging the passing of time... Is reflecting on our continued existence. The continued existence of TFF in this case.
It is ten years of experiences, 10 years of memories that while we will forever have in our memories will never again live.
Then comes the inevitable acceptance of the trajectory of TFF.
Its life as a cradle of creativity is dare I say it, Over.
From those few starting embers a culture, a village, a community has gathered and laid roots.
The fire is gone; how long can the community continue?
Honestly, I wouldn't say that TFF is over. I was part of a massive RP back in 98-05, we literally made billions of posts in that time.
Real life intervened, we all drifted apart, it seemed dead- 10+ months between posts.
And then, slowly, as we all necro'd old posts just to say hi and talk to those who might check the forum in 5 month's time... slowly, it started picking back up.
It's sure as hell not like it's heyday, not in the least because all of us are adults with jobs and/or children now instead of school/college kids, but the RP has picked right back up around '14, and it's just as fun.
If there's community, if there's friendship, a forum can last forever.
TFF will tell us if a forum can last forever if it's made of a community amongst fuckwads and an overarching hivemind.
Real life intervened, we all drifted apart, it seemed dead- 10+ months between posts.
And then, slowly, as we all necro'd old posts just to say hi and talk to those who might check the forum in 5 month's time... slowly, it started picking back up.
It's sure as hell not like it's heyday, not in the least because all of us are adults with jobs and/or children now instead of school/college kids, but the RP has picked right back up around '14, and it's just as fun.
If there's community, if there's friendship, a forum can last forever.
TFF will tell us if a forum can last forever if it's made of a community amongst fuckwads and an overarching hivemind.
I think I joined TFF when i was 12 or 13; I don't remember when I became able to form coherent sentences in English, but it may have been before I joined. I can't act like I didn't learn a lot of my basic English through fanfiction. Before I had the classics, I had NGE and Pokémon. It was a big part of my growth, since I was pretty young. The encouragement I received through oTFF and the people who have stuck around over the years were transformative to my self-esteem and writing ability. For what it's worth, this hole in the Internet where we talk about Ranma's titties has done a lot for me.
I'm just shitposting like everyone else these days, but maybe I'll find time one day to write again. Still, I don't know when I'll be able to forget TFF and what it means to me.
I'm just shitposting like everyone else these days, but maybe I'll find time one day to write again. Still, I don't know when I'll be able to forget TFF and what it means to me.
That's the best description of TFF I've heard. Thank you for that. 
