Archibald
Banned
The last time I 'resurrected' a TL, it resulted in its closure, so I hope this one won't.
Because, I got things to say.
First, I've just finished reading the entire 68-pages thread in one go (Madness some will say) and... what can I say? This Timeline ranks directly into my "Top 10 AH Forum Timelines" right from the beginning.
But second, and most importantly - and I am saying it in French because words are lacking: Cette uchronie me touche.
You experienced what every AH user willing to write/doing TLs could face: depression, burn-out and then desinterest. This Timeline was big by all means, maybe too big for one person to handle, covering such a gigantic time period (1992 - 2012ish), and seeing this gradual descent and desinterest, updates after updates, was both painful and understandable for me: painful because it is always difficult to watch, after all you've written and done, someone stopping a TL because the will isn't there anymore. And understadable, because I am facing the same problem behind the scenes: I, too, want to write a TL on this Forum. To leave a mark. But more I write and write about a subject, the more I am losing the interest of continuing this Timeline, leaving me in an odd state of mind.
The lack of messages between 2013 to 2015, led me to believe that AH.com literally wrecked you, but your answer from that period was a beam of sunlight in the dark sky, and seeing that you were 'finally' at peace with what you had done, deeply... moved me. You ended that chapter of your life, and began a brighter one, with new departures. Et je t'envie ça.
Parce que je ne sais pas si, par hasard j'écris un jour ma propre uchronie, je serai capable de surmonter de tels obstacles, comme toi tu l'as fait, il y a 3-4 ans de ça.
Please, note that you have all my respect and admiration for this TL.
Je te souhaite le meilleur. Et si tu tombes un jour sur ce commentaire d'un étudiant de LLCE Anglais en manque d'inspiration et de sommeil... une petite réponse, ferait le plus grand bien.
Didn't saw that last time. It is so beautiful written. First I'm French like you two guys. Then everything bolded is personnal experience, too. So I'm touched. See Explorers in my signature: started ten years ago, 1600 pages of WORD so far. Covers 1972 to... I don't know when. 2017 or even beyond.
The day I lost steam to wrote on the space program because real life tookover, I knew bad times were ahead. I had no idea, however, how bad it would get. And it got bad, and mad, until past the breaking point. Took me a year and a half to recover. Fuck 2014, that year should be thrown on the ash heap of history.
But I made it through. Despite all those terror attacks. Don't let them cut into your morale. France survived 1.5 million dead and 10 million maimed and traumatized in WWI. We survived Vichy utter shame. We survived 16 000 dead in car wrecks in the year 1972 (and still 3000 annually these years). Fuck terrorism.
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