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Post by Jonok Coldfury on Sept 6, 2008 1:06:54 GMT -5
I can safely say that this board has become my life. I care for this board as though it were family. I know what a lot of people who read this will think, but its true. I don't care for the board itself, with its mediocre color schemes and pictures ripped form people across the web, the only truly custom pic being the logo (or at least thats all I remember), but I do care for what it represents. The world of Gorgraz. The one place my mind always seems to wonder to. It is my Terabithia. I know that if this site is for what ever reason disband or destroyed, that the world it described would not be lost. For as long as one person remembers the word Gorgraz and what truely lies beneath that word, then it will never die. I know I will never forget Gorgraz. And I intend to pass on this world to my children and will hope they pass it on to their children. And though I know it is not a physical place at all, it is still real to me. It has been for quite some time now, and it will be for a long time to come. A place were I can go if I need a break from life. A place I not only put inspiration into, but also draw it from. I know that this site started as just a little, "lets have some fun writing" kind of thing, but being the admin and having to either have the answers to questions or having to mold an understanding of Gorgraz into words so another could understand (true it is something I rarely do) and taking ideas members give me and interlocking them into a solid almost tangible world. All of it has given me a connection with this place. This place. A haven for those who need it, much like the Room of Requirement, I believe it was called. It can be whatever you need it to be. For me, it is an escape and an inspiration, a home and a foreign land, and it is also possibilities.
Some things come, and a lot of things go, but Gorgraz is forever. At least it is to me
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Post by Land Of Zargon on Sept 6, 2008 17:39:35 GMT -5
I shall always remember Gorgraz and what it has meant to me...
Much has changed in the few years that have passed. I have grown older and even started college, but though many things have happened and many things have changed there was always a few things I could depend upon. No matter what was going on I always looked forward to posting on Gorgraz. Many times I wouldn't even get off the site at all, but instead refresh the screen to see if anyone had posted. I look back now to when I started this board, my characters where jokes... Nothing more than a rip off of another persons ideas. But the passage of time changes many things indeed, for over time those characters ceased to be what they originally where... They ceased to be someone else's idea. Instead they evolved there own story's, backgrounds, history's, adventures, and relationships. The characters I created so long ago have now transformed themselves... Into myself, for in them I can see myself. Because of these characters... Because of Dogin and Joe I have been able to see myself for who I truly am. I never saw the transformation myself, but somewhere along the line they became more than just fictional characters and somewhere along the line Gorgraz became more than just a fictional place. Instead they became real to me... Because of this board, because of the people on it, and because of Dogin and Joe I have been able to see life differently than I have before. I will carry these memory's with me into my future and I will always remember this place. This place that has brought me countless joys... This place I will always remember.
Gorgraz... Gorgraz will forever remain in my heart.
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Post by Aevise on Sept 7, 2008 0:34:51 GMT -5
Your words have perplexed me. Your speech is that of an eulogy, but the board has not yet perished. No it's far from perishing. The three of you keep this board's heart from stopping, and fading away into the vast emptiness of the internet. That alone can rekindle any dying flame. So I must ask what prompted you to lament this board?
With that being done, I must say that though I have not had a hand in the revived board, my experience with the original will always remain in my mind. Whether I be thirty or a thousand I will always remember this board for what it was; a place for friends to converge and create their own world from the recesses of their own imagination.
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Post by Jonok Coldfury on Sept 7, 2008 1:14:50 GMT -5
I did not mean to convey the thought that Gorgraz is dying, just the opposite (though I admit my above post does have a the sad tone of the ending of something special). As long as one of us remembers, it will live on. I intend to return to this site until I am no longer able. I intend to post even if no one else does. I simply wanted to express that Gorgraz has become much, much more than a simple web address. It is a place as real to me as the one I live in. When I started this thread, I was thinking of the way things were, how they are now, and how they will be in the future. Many have come and gone, and few of us remain, but we few are the rock upon which Gorgraz was built.
Each time Gorgraz died, it brought me pain, even though I killed it myself at least once. But now I am of a mind set I express through Jonok. Gorgraz will forever stand. It will never fall again. It will always be protected from whatever might destroy it and it shall never close its doors to anyone who happens upon it.
So say we all.
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