Again, thx to everyone for continued contributions. We ARE building a 'history' here...one that some of you know, but most of us out here do not know. Thanks to Gary also, because I had no idea 'who' WAVE was nor where it fit in the timeline,and it turns out it was way ahead of any curve. Thanks to Max, whom I've known just as 'an onliine friend' for over 10 years, connnecting originally with our mutual love for the Charlotte role in 'I, The Jury'.
Thanks again to Peter, slave-driver that I am...LOL....hey, I've died enough times over the years, more than any actress for any of you....LOL....so it's fun to be the Driver for a change, Peter.
Thanks to Nyghtfall for the 2005 Nicheclips factoid. I had no idea it went back that far, but then, as for many of us I guess, the years seem to go ever so much faster and it all just blends in with regard or even paying attention to which specific years that things occurred. Heck, I can't even place my own first forays, and I keep saying '13 years', but with the estimate of when Fatal Females came into being, it's probably 11-12 years. I don't even know how many Members FF had when I found it.
But as Max said, it's rather obvious who the original movers and shakers were (and thx, Peter, for all the Dolcett history also; I only tangentially paid attention to SOME of the drawings after I came online, but the history with Karyn and such helps a lot also).
And then there are all the 'side' contributors who did their own thing and later became 'known' by this 'new community'...like Jim McQuade, for example, and Other artists and such.
Peter, it is also interesting to read your editorial comments about Governments and how they affected things, with horrid treatment of Dr. Don and also the credit card things and so forth.
It might be difficult to separate emotion from fact there in the end, but for now I surely 'accept' what you say about it all. I don't in any way mean to imply that you are not accurate, Peter, but I think you know where I'm coming from, that I'll attempt to organize this eventually and 'write' some document, but that document will really simply be re-arranging all that is said here, and using the words of each of YOU when forming pieces of it all and trying to tie it together.
I'll add my own editorial comments at that stage,as a 'reader' and 'sometime story-writer' and such.
I don't even remember where it was now (at which site) but this all reminded me of a story by a guy calling himself 'Gunsmoke' (he may be one of YOU for all I know) that I still SEE today, so vivid were his words and was his imagery,though the story was unaccompanied by any pictures.
I don't even recall the name of the story, but would not be surprised if someone here did, SO vivid were the ones that really 'hit' each of us...they did, in the mind, turn into 'movies'!
A man and a woman entered some warehouse type facility, having accomplished some diamong robbery or something. And the Bad Bitch was waiting there, supposedly on the side of the other woman who came in with the man. The briefcase or suitcase of diamonds was laid on a table, and the Bad Bitch ordered her female partner to double-cross the man.....which, very reluctantly, and almost with tears in her eyes (because she had fallen for him and suddenly did not want to go through with the original plan), she did so, shooting him.....only of course to be double-crossed herself by the Bad Bitch and shot herself.
But after she fell, the Bad Bitch turned back to the diamonds and was running her hands through them and picking them up and all....as the other Woman suddenly, while dying, made eye contact with the dying man she had shot...who, appropriate to such stories, still loved HER and understood why she HAD shot him....and he somehow managed to slide his gun across the floor to her,and she shot the Bad Bitch in the back...and then again after she turned, and the image of the bad bitch falling over the table, upsetting the briefcase of diamonds, and falling dead to the floor with the diamonds falling all over her body is an image I LOVED then and STILL see today and have used in personal role play more than ONCE (unfortunately not with real diamonds,but......lol).
Anyway...just had to speak of how one little piece of all that all of you have contributed, can and does stay with a "user' or 'reader' for years and years, and remains just as vivid as upon first reading!
Thanks, Nyghtfall, also, for adding the 2001 to the Orgasmagoria timeline. That was another site that I never spent much time with because it seemed 'more extreme' than my simple and relatively narrow personal preferences, but I want to be able for all of us to include all of its, because the fantasies are broad in scope (NO pun...lol) to be sure.
You might have made more money writing in other areas, Peter, but I doubt you ever could have had more fun, even amidst all the travails you've gone through financially and otherwise. You stayed committed to it all, for a variety of reasons and the Community is never where it is today without you...DUH! Again, I reference the 'sounds' under the 'Sundry' link on your Peter's Art and Erotica pages....sounds that are still used today, I'm sure, by more than Sandi....lol.
This is incredible, just as a 'read' right here at this thread, it really is! And Bellystabs and Max are cool to hear from since they know and lived so much of the history, and Max is still doing 'stuff'. Somewhere along the line, hopefully we can put Suzy Gabrielle and BigJohn in there as to 'who they are' or if they were also 'someone else' earlier in 'our' history here.
By the time 'we' are finished, if we ever are, any document put together will be by ALL of us, and Sandi will no longer have to be accused of War and Peace in her regular posts only.....
thanks fo Blue for suggesting this format; it sure as heck is working and generating the Interest, at least from we old ducks around here. Will probably mean little to the newer Members, but it's always 'neat' to see where people began, and how they got from there to the present. Now, Users in the community, as the Youngers in our societies, probably are concerned with little other than 'I want it now' and are used to having it 'now', but this all shows, from bandwidth and money issues and servers kicking off Sites (as Yahoo killed our Yahoo Groups!!!), that it is not nearly as simple as it appears to the Newbies, and that there was a lot of real pain and hardship along the way, and that only through continued commitments for a variety of reasons by many people, did the whole thing survive the early and then the formative years. It will all be here now anyway, sure, but without the Pioneers, it surely would never have 'started' then nor continued to be able to give so much pleasure to so many over the first 10 'real' years or so that it did.....and continues to do.
Sandi