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Hi everyone! Been a hot minute since I was here!
Welcome back!
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Thanks!
I've been lurking a bit lately after sabotaging my social media algorithms (I unsubscribed from all the interesting things and mass subscribed to boring crap, very helpful) and finally just recovered the email account associated with this account.
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I had to go on a bit of a roundabout path of recovering one email account in order to recover the account this one is linked to! I hadn't realized the former was even recoverable at this point but I'm grateful it was (not least because the email drafts folder is absolutely full of old conlanging!).
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Welcome back !
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As someone posted on Bluesky a month ago, "I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN"
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It's great to hear from you again, Risla! How are things with you now?
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:21 pm
Oddly enough the dentist did not find anything wrong with my tooth. Since the pain and swelling seem to have peaked several days ago anyway, I feel content to file this among my many alarming health problems that appear out of nowhere and then just vanish.
Glad you're back. This forum suffers from a serious dearth of active members these days.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:39 am
Broad question! Life has been a lot lately but is pretty good right now.
I've been thinking about just how long I've been a member of this forum. I joined when I was sixteen (or possibly seventeen at the very latest). I am now 36. I am an entirely different person from the bright but neglected and badly traumatized teenager I was when I first came here, and this forum may have been a small part of it but has somehow been one of the most stable things in my life. I remember you being kind to me way back when I first joined and want to say thank you.
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Oh. I'm sorry about the bad stuff, and glad about what might be the better stuff. Though, to be honest, from what I remember of the forum 20 years ago, I'm kind of pleasantly surprised that you found it a kind place back then.Risla wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:39 amBroad question! Life has been a lot lately but is pretty good right now.
I've been thinking about just how long I've been a member of this forum. I joined when I was sixteen (or possibly seventeen at the very latest). I am now 36. I am an entirely different person from the bright but neglected and badly traumatized teenager I was when I first came here, and this forum may have been a small part of it but has somehow been one of the most stable things in my life. I remember you being kind to me way back when I first joined and want to say thank you.
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Excellent news!
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Oh, it wasn't! That message was directed specifically at alice.Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 5:16 amOh. I'm sorry about the bad stuff, and glad about what might be the better stuff. Though, to be honest, from what I remember of the forum 20 years ago, I'm kind of pleasantly surprised that you found it a kind place back then.Risla wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:39 amBroad question! Life has been a lot lately but is pretty good right now.
I've been thinking about just how long I've been a member of this forum. I joined when I was sixteen (or possibly seventeen at the very latest). I am now 36. I am an entirely different person from the bright but neglected and badly traumatized teenager I was when I first came here, and this forum may have been a small part of it but has somehow been one of the most stable things in my life. I remember you being kind to me way back when I first joined and want to say thank you.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 2:27 pm
That's good news. A lot of health problems are like that, especially as you get older; take note!
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Aw, thank you too! I'm so glad to hear you're good; I do remember you having a lot to cope with all the way back then. Are you still in Japan?Risla wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:39 amBroad question! Life has been a lot lately but is pretty good right now.
I've been thinking about just how long I've been a member of this forum. I joined when I was sixteen (or possibly seventeen at the very latest). I am now 36. I am an entirely different person from the bright but neglected and badly traumatized teenager I was when I first came here, and this forum may have been a small part of it but has somehow been one of the most stable things in my life. I remember you being kind to me way back when I first joined and want to say thank you.
(btw IIRC I joined the ZBB around 2003, and I must be one of the few from that era who's still around. WeepingElf is another.)
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Now the question becomes, "How long is an era?"WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2026 4:14 pmI came a good deal later than you, around 2005, if I remember correctly.