Dogadalytes

Silly people.

We're TADMINIONS.

I want to keep my post count AND my member number, if we're gonna get right down to it. But I dun suppose that's practical.

I seem to remember being somewhere at the top of said List.

*cowers in fear*

You know, I don't think I made The List.

Hmph.

It'll be like looking at rock strata in archaeology or geology- you can tell how long a Tad fan has been around by the list of message boards they've belonged to. *g*

Imuri si dunces of wrote:

It'll be like looking at rock strata in archaeology or geology- you can tell how long a Tad fan has been around by the list of message boards they've belonged to. *g*

I really like that. Already says on Shadowmarch's front page that it's a "web fossil". Some of us have been around since the Cretaceous!

wiked wrote:

come on Jamie, we are the few the proud, the Lysters. You me and the strangelady,

I think Seitherin and possibly Sadalian (iirc) were around in the pre-Lyst days on the GEnie boards, but I'm not exactly certain of that. Both were also Lysters, & Marian, too. I think Beazle still pops in here occasionally as well but mostly lurks.

Jaime probably doesn't remember this, but she was the one that originally directed me to the Lyst (called Tadhenge back in those days) -- so y'all can blame her. When I first got there, Wiked and Beazle were having Barbecued Chinchilla parties. Or wars. Or something. It was exceedingly strange, so naturally I had to stay.

I'm sure new arrivals here have similar stories of experiencing varieties of weirdness that are just not found anywhere else on the net. We're all so perfect for each other.

Tad mentioned GEnie in the acknowledgements of TGAT, back in 1994. That's, like, positively Permian!

Don't you want to reach 20k first, Martha?

strangeshe wrote:

I think Seitherin and possibly Sadalian (iirc) were around in the pre-Lyst days on the GEnie boards, but I'm not exactly certain of that. Both were also Lysters, & Marian, too. I think Beazle still pops in here occasionally as well but mostly lurks.

GEnie is before my time. I didn't get online until the end of 1996 and that's when I found the Lyst (or maybe early 1997.) Oh, wow, 10 years. Doesn't feel like it.

As for this topic, put me in the list of people who don't want flashy graphic anythings on the board and who really like the very soothing color scheme we currently have. I'd also like it if the board could remain "Shadowmarch" since that's become a second home for us.

I'm with Jen on wanting to keep my member number but I'm not terribly attached to my post count.

The rest of the new site should probably have a News section with current project/tour info, a Bio section, and a Bibliography.

GEnie precedes the Lyst, I believe.  The Lyst was a mailer-daemon type mailing list that started with COGS or so, that was originally on one server and then moved to yahoogroups.  It was very much like smarch but with a much smaller population, with its own weird stories.  Perhaps Wiked can recap for us the two God Wars...

Guthwulf, Marian, and NancIE are also Lysters, and I'm sure there are others I've inadvertently forgotten.

The site you remember, Binky, is the old Tad Williams Message Board which was put up by Eric Neuman. Damon/paragon, Firsfron, bandit, sam, Rook, lian, and quite a few others including some of the Lysters hung out there. Marian & Pandy & Maladroit found that board prior to the Lyst, as I recall, but there was quite a bit of member crossover between the two.

Prior to Eric's TWMB, however, was Guthwulf's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Thesis project, which included a MB which was quite active. I think it predated the Lyst (though not by much) and the TWMB. Several old-timers (like myself*) managed to keep an eye on all three. Guth has a new MB he set up around the time Shadowmarch was born (guthwulf.com) but it sadly has been overrun by spambots -- or at least last time I peeked in. I thought that he'd linked to the original MST board there, but I didn't see it on a quick glance just now. Not that there would've been much to see these days; it was overrun by spammers, too, sometime prior to his new site going up. I'll bet I've got the url around here someplace; may have to hunt it down. (In fact, it may still be linked at Treehouse on Yahoogroups. I've not updated those in ages.)

For a short while, Tad had a MB thread over on SFFnet. I have not checked there in over five years, though, so have no idea if it's still around. Seems like there was also an MB on the Tor publisher site sometime around the time the first LEGENDS was released. Tad posted occasionally to both of those (he's so generous to his fans; really is remarkable).

There's probably more that I'm not remembering. I know at least one of the old GEnie folk made it to the Lyst, but unless it's Sadalian, I can't remember who that was.

Yep, 10 years is forever on the net. Also really remarkable.

(*but I should add that I wasn't there at the start of either the TWMB or Guth's MST Board; I only found both of those after Jaime so kindly led me to Tadhenge/the Lyst. I distinctly remember the feeling of wishing I'd discovered all of that earlier, so I know how it feels to read posts from someone like me. Apologies for any angsty stuff for anyone. But just think: one of these days years from now, you'll be the ones talking to newer members about how it was back in the day. Because believe me, we'll all likely still be around then, too!)

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And I, with my power level at NINE THOUSSSSSAAAAAANDDDDDD!!! negate that vote for avatars, 'cause I'm all anti-avatar.

THERE IS NO AVATAR THAT CAN CONTAIN ME.  AVATARRRRR.