the lilac lynx

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I'm a bit confused by "last page" but everyone else seems to be reccing stuff in general so I'll do the same. So I'll start off with my own essay, Creature Roleplays of the Early 00s. This was my own little retrospective of the worlds that I first found when going online and what they meant to me. And kind of still do. Again this seems to be one of those spaces that's now mostly forgotten in the wake of fandom homogenisation. The genre doesn't even have a punchy name, it's just one of those things that where if you know the tropes, you'd recognise them.

A Raveen Kat Retrospective: Cyberpets and regrets in the 00s is another essay from a similar background. I didn't know about the Raveen Kats, but I can recognise that same collaborative world feel. Reading this, I want one too - and I feel the same sadness at the loss of such spaces and creations. (Also, funnily enough, I was a member of another community about a species called 'kats' - then again I guess it's hardly original).

I've been doing a lot of digital archeaology about these spaces. What's so often frustrating is that so often you remember just enough to know they were there, but there are no remaining records. But every so often something's still there. The Draekard Page is probably one of the trope makers for the specific creature RP genre I used to love. It's not the one I was most active in, but it's the one everyone in those circles knew and every other RP owner wanted to emulate.

Okay so maybe mostly I wanted to talk about 00s creature RPs. I have no regrets. They still stand out after so long, I think, because of how they were so often cut short with some fun ideas left hanging. It's like an old childhood fave show, half the episodes missing, that was cancelled before its time - maybe not high art, but you keep wondering, what could it have been that we never got to see?

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