Recent events on livejournal, which - to a certain degree - might be considered the big sister of Vox since it's run by the same company SixApart have once again shown, how fragile - and in the same moment, how powerful - being part of an online fandom can be.
The realization of how easily years of writing and countless - very dear - comments to it can be lost was surely a wakeup call to many of us. Involuntarily, it led to not only downloading the blogs much more regularly, but also towards spreading the fiction, as in seeking safety in distribution.
I'm yet trying to decide whether or not to make the effort of adding my works to this journal as well. I'll see.
Pity, the quiz-codes (such as the Pirate Name Quiz) don't work here. :(
"Things there are in the world which have never loved Men, which have been in the world far longer than humankind, so that once when Men were newer on the earth and the woods were greater, there had been places a Man might walk where he might feel the age of the world on his shoulders. Forests grew in which the stillness was so great he could hear stirrings of a life no part of his own. There were brooks from which the magic had not gone, mountains which sang with voices, and sometimes a wind touched the back of his neck and lifted the hairs with the shiver of a presence at which a Man must never turn and stare."
[C.J. Cherryh, The Dreamstone, (c) 1983 in The Dreaming Tree anthology by DAW Books 1997]
If I am to write a test piece and feel unimaginative, I can at least write something of a book I adore!
