hiiiiiiii!!!!!! My name is Sarah Johnson, and the two Redwall aliases that most would associate me with are Rudder Rockstream and Silkwind Nightstar.
Soooo, yeah. Back in 2000, I came up with the idea for RedCon '05. Yep. It was me. I thought of it. It was my freakin' BRAINCHILD! I was gonna make it all happen and work and be all cool and such. Then I just lost interest in the redwall fandom, mostly because my entire 'generation' did. Everyone who I used to hang out with and RP with were also leaving, getting on with their real lives, or finding different venues to roleplay.
It was sad, but it was also good. I was moving forward, onto a new stage in my life.
I've been entirely out of the loop now for the last . . . year and a half or so. getting out of the loop was a gradual removal process that started around 2000 and continued until . . . mid 2001, possibly all the way to 2002. So basically, I know nothing about what's going on in the ROC today.
Yesterday I found out that my dear dear ROC friend from back in the day, Josh, died in a car accident. I am completely crushed by this. And... we kinda lost touch in the last year or so, which pains me to no end. If I'd known he was going to die, I would have made a bigger effort to keep in touch with him.
I'm painfully heartbroken about this. Basically, I've resolved not to lose touch with people anymore, just to have them die. Keeping in touch with the Redwall people is hard, though. We're scattered all over the place. There's nothing binding me and the rest of the 'old generation' together anymore.
I don't have the ambition or planning or time or most importantly the money to organize a Redwall convention, as was my original idea back in the day. What I'd like to see happen instead, though, is to have a ROC party at Anthrocon. Anthrocon is a huge convention for anthro animals or 'furry', of which the redwall fandom is a subfandom. It would totally rock if redwall fans could buy a block of rooms together at the hotel, so that they were all living in the same place during the convention. And there could be an ROC party where everyone from ROC got to meet up with each other and such.
This is a lot more workable than actually trying to make our own convention just for redwall. Because-- what are there? Like, 20, 30 people who might come? Maybe even less when it comes right down to it? Anthrocon is a huge event. It's the biggest anthro convention in the world! And it's run and organized by a huge dedicated staff. Anthrocon's staff is literally bigger than the entire attendance of a Redwall convention would be.
So.... I suggest that if you want to meet other Redwall fans, let's organize something for Anthrocon. I'll be going for the first time this summer, and I'm totally stoked. I'd love to meet any of you this year. After this summer, I'd be happy to lend a hoof in organizing next year's Redwall party and helping people buy rooms together, for 2005, right on schedule! :)
PLEASE CONTACT ME!!! My AIM thingy is applemouse22 and my e-mail address is applemouse at uky dot edu. (i hate spambots)
I'm probably going to write an article about this idea and such for Terrouge's November issue too.
(crossposted to the redwall forum)
Soooo, yeah. Back in 2000, I came up with the idea for RedCon '05. Yep. It was me. I thought of it. It was my freakin' BRAINCHILD! I was gonna make it all happen and work and be all cool and such. Then I just lost interest in the redwall fandom, mostly because my entire 'generation' did. Everyone who I used to hang out with and RP with were also leaving, getting on with their real lives, or finding different venues to roleplay.
It was sad, but it was also good. I was moving forward, onto a new stage in my life.
I've been entirely out of the loop now for the last . . . year and a half or so. getting out of the loop was a gradual removal process that started around 2000 and continued until . . . mid 2001, possibly all the way to 2002. So basically, I know nothing about what's going on in the ROC today.
Yesterday I found out that my dear dear ROC friend from back in the day, Josh, died in a car accident. I am completely crushed by this. And... we kinda lost touch in the last year or so, which pains me to no end. If I'd known he was going to die, I would have made a bigger effort to keep in touch with him.
I'm painfully heartbroken about this. Basically, I've resolved not to lose touch with people anymore, just to have them die. Keeping in touch with the Redwall people is hard, though. We're scattered all over the place. There's nothing binding me and the rest of the 'old generation' together anymore.
I don't have the ambition or planning or time or most importantly the money to organize a Redwall convention, as was my original idea back in the day. What I'd like to see happen instead, though, is to have a ROC party at Anthrocon. Anthrocon is a huge convention for anthro animals or 'furry', of which the redwall fandom is a subfandom. It would totally rock if redwall fans could buy a block of rooms together at the hotel, so that they were all living in the same place during the convention. And there could be an ROC party where everyone from ROC got to meet up with each other and such.
This is a lot more workable than actually trying to make our own convention just for redwall. Because-- what are there? Like, 20, 30 people who might come? Maybe even less when it comes right down to it? Anthrocon is a huge event. It's the biggest anthro convention in the world! And it's run and organized by a huge dedicated staff. Anthrocon's staff is literally bigger than the entire attendance of a Redwall convention would be.
So.... I suggest that if you want to meet other Redwall fans, let's organize something for Anthrocon. I'll be going for the first time this summer, and I'm totally stoked. I'd love to meet any of you this year. After this summer, I'd be happy to lend a hoof in organizing next year's Redwall party and helping people buy rooms together, for 2005, right on schedule! :)
PLEASE CONTACT ME!!! My AIM thingy is applemouse22 and my e-mail address is applemouse at uky dot edu. (i hate spambots)
I'm probably going to write an article about this idea and such for Terrouge's November issue too.
(crossposted to the redwall forum)