When nostalgia hits you hard

[cherrylng]

I'm staring at the Rich Text format as I post my first journal entry in years and the very first one in DW, and I can't believe how much things have changed that the screen alone hits me with nostalgia of how I first started out in LJ. Just staring at it alone brings back memories of the struggle and frustration of learning how to use Rich Text without fucking up the format, how much I relied on HTML and learning basic coding before LJ made things simpler and actually efficient to post stuff, how much joy in finding another source of releasing my creativity and imagination, like... the simpler days, man.

I'm writing on several of my stories, keeping 3 tabs for Google Docs opened. Two of them are actively updated, while the third tab is used to change in between other stories that my brain urges me to update on. At any moment, I'm updating and editing seven stories alone... I think. There might've been more than seven. More like ten if I'm stretching it.

And yes, I am updating on The Tax Collector. The next chapter for it won't come anytime soon, but parts of it are fixed to make it flow more smoothly for how the story will go! I intended to make it a mini-series and I intend to keep it that way!

As for what else I'm writing on the two active tabs on Google Docs... well, one is for an old one and one is a new one ;)

Comments

[tamarelmensdorp]

I haven't been that long on lj, and on ms even less long, but even I feel nostalgic. Not so much to my time, but to the time before when things seemed so close and stuff. I'm rambling and not even making sense, sorry.

Anyway, YAY, the Taxcollector 😍.

[cherrylng]

I'm more nostalgic in the fact that it's like holy shit, the Post An Entry page looks exactly as it did back in 2009! And yeah, I missed the feeling of community back then, before people moved to other platforms o n o

I'm still shocked that people like it. Its story length is like, a tenth to what Under the Hood has, and shorter than even "Do We Need This Madness?" o u o;

[tamarelmensdorp]

It's a super great story. That's why people like it.

[cherrylng]

They gotta love the mysterious tax collector watching from a distance, eh? o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

And the cheeky thief 😊.

[cherrylng]

You sure you don't want Matt as a naughty bunny instead? o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

I'm not picky when it comes to Matt. I'll take him any which way 😁.

[cherrylng]

It IS Easter, so Bunny!Matt is pretty apt o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

Imagine bunny hopping matt gif here.

[cherrylng]

It looks silly o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

It does. But it makes him so cute too.

[cherrylng]

I'm just imagining the more naughty side of Bunny!Matt, the one that keeps me entertained o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

Naughty bunny Matt is a thing to behold, for sure.

[cherrylng]

Indeed it is a sight to behold, for no man or woman can resist it o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

Swoon

[cherrylng]

We need more bunny love, if you know what I mean o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

Make it happen 😉.

[cherrylng]

I can imagine Bunny!Matt seducing Chris right now, but there's not enough to go around on what to write using it yet o u o

[tamarelmensdorp]

Make it just a scene. Things don't have to be full blown stories.