[FFML] [Spamfilk] Re: The end of the FFML

[Ragman Jack]

*standing ovation* Bravo! BRAVO!

> On Apr 5, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 4:29 PM Ragman Jack <stevedtav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ultimately, though, nostalgia alone is no reason to keep the list up and
>> running. It hurts, but we have to Let It Go.
>> 
>> And now I’m going to sit back and wait for the Frozen jokes. =D
>> 
> 
> I was wondering who was going to trip my muse, and how it would be
> triggered.
> 
> ---
> 
> The pixels glow white on my screen tonight.
> The list's traffic's grown so dim.
> A listserv so isolated,
> And it looks like I'm an admin.
> 
> The Web is spreading like this growing life outside.
> Can't keep the list going, heaven knows I've tried.
> Nobody comes in, no new people see.
> Year by year, new forums keep calling me.
> React, don't act, don't let them know.
> Well, now they know.
> 
> Let it go, let it go.
> Can't keep it up anymore.
> Let it go, let it go.
> Turn away and close the door.
> I don't care what they're going to say.
> Let the Web rage on.
> Being old never bothered me anyway.
> 
> It's funny how nostalgia makes everything seem radical.
> How we remember the good, and not the practical.
> I never stopped seeing what I can do:
> Tweak the same old plots, but the fandom's new.
> Across the series, across the venues, no one list for me:
> I'm free.
> 
> Let it go, let it go.
> I am an eternal scribe.
> Let it go, let it go.
> I'll write until I die.
> Understand, this is how I play.
> Let the Web rage on.
> 
> Online libraries are flourishing all around,
> So many that our attention gets split and drowned.
> Yet one thought crystallizes like an icy blast:
> We're never going back, the past is in the past.
> 
> Let it go, let it go.
> Find ever new groups, on and on.
> Let it go, let it go.
> That single community is gone.
> I write on, by night and day.
> Let the Web rage on.
> Being old never bothered me anyway.
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