;)

08:51:28 PM MST, Tuesday, June 24, 2025

FA>. Hi! Glad to see people still making their way in here after all this time. I don't know you personally but I feel like I saw your name in one of the old chat logs that I posted. Were you from S8 or Miniclan?

The chat has a been a bit slow since the new year, I think it's just been a hard year. I try to keep a tab open for this place and check in from time to time and say hi to anyone new that shows up. Seems like everyone that has come here has kept in contact with some other chatters, but only like 1 or 2 each so it's hard to spread this place. If you know any others, please send them a link here :)

02:01:24 PM MST, Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Hi, I'm still alive all. I saw some nostalgic yt video of some old-school internet community and then thought of you all. I'm actually a web developer now, even manage own web team. Back when I used to chat on here I didn't even know HTML besides how to color my name in order to get RPing!

Anyway, to any of you that read this and recognize my old ass, I hope you are doing well and still find ways to stay cool and creative.

09:27:59 AM MST, Wednesday, April 23, 2025

gedoena> Yeah, mine is due for her heart worm stuff when she goes back for her big Valley Fever followup in August. And the rattlesnake vaccine really just gives us more time to get her treated if she is bit, but I'll take it.

Got distracted by life again - stepdaughter got a kitten and I got lured away by my shiny new MacBook. Been trying to work on this web domain more as a whole. Harder coming up with ideas, but I made a little AIM chat. Still tweaking it.

07:38:56 PM MST, Sunday, April 06, 2025

River> Wow...guess we don't need rattlesnake vaccines around here!

EVERYONE - get the heartworm one each year (or 3 years depending on how you do it). Treatment horrible and lengthy (and actually suffering is terrible).

02:57:17 PM MST, Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Nick> Sorry about your hand! Hope you are recovering well.

02:55:49 PM MST, Wednesday, March 19, 2025

gedoena> Yeah, I keep up to date too but overall I'm trying to stay off my glass rectangle of doom. The dog is now jumping into my car without me having to lift her butt, which she hasn't done in forever. It's slow but steady progress for her. Just got her rattlesnake vaccine, yay

Nick> Man do I understand it being a blah time. I think this year is just not it :/ Glad to see you in here again.

Think I'll try to hang around somewhat this weekend, maybe try to think of somewhere else to promote the chat.

10:17:14 PM MST, Thursday, March 13, 2025

Sorry, woulda commented more. But been back and forth with my bipolar, and now I got surgery in the morning on my hand, and it's just a BLAH time.

But yay for healthier pet, River!

09:18:20 PM MST, Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Great news about playing! Your mechanism for getting her to swallow the pills is ingenious.
Glad to hear you are doing some relaxing things. I am at least reading my AP news summary every day. And then hear things from my husband as well as my father and brother (who always turn it into a debate, even though in theory we seem to more or less agree on most things, but then I get to feel like an idiot for not knowing everything/having read from multiple sources). I need to focus on work and kids and also sleep sometimes!

09:46:14 AM MST, Tuesday, March 04, 2025

gedoena> I think you were right about it still being the illness. She's kind of gone from 80% recovered to 90%. She's being a whiny brat again, playing again (sanded down her lips with 15 minutes of the herding ball), and just is overall more playful and energetic. As far as the pill, I got a refill of the meds in a different format (smaller more compact tablets) that are working well. I shove one in a space in her mouth, and then immediately paste over that spot with PB. She's hesitant about taking food directly from me since her illness, so I can't hide it in something and then give it to her. She still doesn't LOVE it, but she seems more forgiving of the twice daily ritual now.

I'm somewhat successfully trying to stay away from the bad parts of the internet these days. Doing gardening, coloring, trying to get back into drawing. Some days I still doomscroll :/

05:51:35 PM MST, Monday, March 03, 2025

River> I'm sorry to hear you are having a difficult time...I've been feeling similar for some similar reasons lately too.

It sounds to me more like she is still not feeling well than turning 2...I know that is technically not a puppy any more but not exactly old. I'm not an expert but I think the hiding might be a sign of not feeling well (although the dogs I have had were more likely to be melodramatic when not feeling well, I know some dogs hide). On the other hand, it could be she started doing that while not feeling well and it became a habit. It is amazing how quickly something can become a routine or preference for them, even if they likely don't remember why. Hope she continues to improve!

I wish that all dog meds would come as chewy things. Does peanut butter help get the pills down? Or cheese? My mom buys pill pockets and her dog is crazy about them.

08:52:05 PM MST, Monday, February 17, 2025

gedoena> Luckily no restrictions on activity. She's very active still, but just seemed subdued in smaller ways. She doesn't play with toys anymore and she prefers to hide when she's snoozing. I can't tell what's the sickness and what is her just getting past the age of 2. But she's doing great overall, besides her disdain at taking the pill twice a day.

I need to try promoting this place again, but I've just been in such a funk the past few months. Part of it is just my standard season depression, other parts are the world, my work, my personal life. Trying to stay off the current day internet lately (IE all the various social medias) and be outside more, or coloring. If I need to be on the internet lately, I feel like it's better if I'm on some website NOT owned by the big 5 or 10, whatever it is.

Blaaaaaaaaaaah. Ugh.

12:32:27 PM MST, Sunday, February 16, 2025

Wow, it's been a long time since I checked here... River - sorry to hear she had such a hard time! Glad to hear they at least have some treatment. Does she have to rest during the 8 months, or can she do whatever she feels like? When we foster-to-adopted Ivy she had heartworm which also takes many months to treat and get verified as healthy. For chunks of that she was supposed to rest and definitely not run or jump. Tell an active young dog that!? There were a few days of abject misery right after shots but other than that she did NOT follow doctor's orders much... we had to take her on a leash into our fenced yard to stop her from running around,.

05:08:19 PM MST, Thursday, February 13, 2025

gedoena> Yeah, I think she was hiding whatever pain she was in for quite a while as she tested high for the disease. She was limping and cowering and she's normally chasing deer. She'll be on the antifungals for the next 8 months, but there's a possibility it could be the rest of her life. I'm hoping the 8 month dose knocks it out, and I'm hoping by then the Valley Fever vaccine for dogs will be out. They've been working on it the past 7 years or so. Today is her last day on prednisone, so no more super hungry/thirsty dog. She's getting better day by day, she's starting to play again, but she's still hiding/chilling/sleeping more than usual. She turned 2 this past Wednesday ^_^

05:55:47 PM MST, Friday, January 24, 2025

River - just checked this again. Hope she is all better now! It is horrible when they are hurting - even more so if we can't figure out what is wrong. I do think it is helpful to have a dog that shows their pain rather than hides it (though I think my dog has perhaps exaggerated at times...)

10:54:24 AM MST, Thursday, January 23, 2025

gedoena and Nick> Thank you ^_^

She's an almost 2 yr old Aussie and started limping and then just yelping and crying. She spent her time shaking and hiding. 2 vet visits, but the second time we got sent home with antifungals and a steroid after testing very positive for valley fever. She's not 100% but she is a hungry hungry hippo and no longer crying and hiding. My heart couldn't take the crying.

05:24:29 PM MST, Monday, January 13, 2025

Yay healing dog!

01:00:24 PM MST, Monday, January 13, 2025

River - poor dog! Glad she is doing better now!

10:44:03 AM MST, Monday, January 13, 2025

Popping by after being gone from chat for a while. My dog got seriously ill with valley fever and I've been an anxious mess since New Years. Luckily she's on meds and doing better now. Linked my favorite picture of her for reference.

08:53:42 PM MST, Wednesday, January 08, 2025

It's New Year's Eve! If you party, remember your DD if you plan on going out!

11:56:27 AM MST, Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Happy Honda Days, and a Merry Toyotathon to one and all!

03:37:54 PM MST, Friday, December 27, 2024

Happy Boxing Day!

09:01:26 AM MST, Thursday, December 26, 2024

Merry Christmas everyone!

01:16:53 PM MST, Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Hope everyone is having a great Christmas, and is staying off Excel for the day!

12:18:34 PM MST, Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Adam> I love that one. For the first year of my job, we kept track of our contracts and leads on awful buggy shared spreadsheets. We ended up moving that stuff to Salesforce, but I still get reports to work my spreadsheet magic on.

Though looking at the weekly Salesforce data exports, it's all Excel, still.

08:49:12 PM MST, Monday, December 23, 2024

Okay, let's try that again:

02:01:25 PM MST, Monday, December 23, 2024

My company running SAP, Tableau, PowerBI, AfO, and everyone knowing that it all still boils down to Excel.

02:00:35 PM MST, Monday, December 23, 2024

Adam> Yes! I fucking love Vlookup.

Included a link to one of my favorite memes.

10:47:12 AM MST, Saturday, December 21, 2024

Live by the Pivot Table, die by the VLookup.

We'll be visiting my father-in-law in Gilbert, AZ in a couple of weeks. I live in upstate South Carolina for the last two years, after living my entire life in Charlotte, NC.

11:32:07 PM MST, Friday, December 20, 2024

I am living in the same place I was back in HS after 20 years in Tucson, not far from Tombstone AZ and the Mexican border. Married for 2 years with 2 stepkids (14 and 17 year old girls). I also have 3 cats and an almost 2 y/o Aussie (Rhaenys Targaryen) who is my first dog and the light of my life.

I work in health insurance (Medicare side) helping coordinate the contracts between providers and the insurance company. I don't love working in this industry, but it works well with my Excel and Salesforce skills. I love Excel so much I post memes about it to social media LOL

04:10:59 PM MST, Friday, December 20, 2024

I work for a large Germany-based multinational tire company, married for 17 years with a 13-year old daughter and a 3-year old pit bull. Before my daughter was born, my wife and I tried our hand at libertarian political activism for a few years, but it's now more of a spectator sport for us.

03:01:52 PM MST, Friday, December 20, 2024

So, what is everyone up to now? I am a faculty member, married 26 years, have 2 "neurodivergent" boys (12-nearly-13 and 15), and a dog who really, really thinks I should play with her instead of working on the computer on the bed right now. My older son does FIRST robotics and I volunteer there. Great group.

01:03:50 PM MST, Friday, December 20, 2024

I don't know if anyone would remember me, or vice-versa, other than one person I've kept in touch with (well, and my husband, who I met on a gargoyles listserv!)

09:14:31 AM MST, Thursday, December 19, 2024

My last post was typo City. I'm regressing.

09:14:55 PM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

I only went to one as well, Montreal in 2004. Roomed with Isa and a couple other people.

08:26:34 PM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

I went to just one: Williamsburg in 2002. That was fun.

07:55:20 PM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

I attended two - 06 in Los Angeles and 07 in Pigeon Forge. Each had their unique quirks but I enjoyed both quite a bit. Not sure if I'd do it these days - it would be more like a reunion than a convention at this point LOL

04:12:19 PM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

I think I only went to one Gathering (my mind keeps telling me 2, but can't remember any other than NY). It was nice. I remember Greg Weismann saying in his speech to us that it was too much of a private club (I think he was referring to the expense to attend).
I wonder if this would have held up over the years as we all got older and had/have a lot of other things going on in our lives.

My kids have watched Gargoyles, but I don't know if I would take a family trip to another city (much less make costumes, etc) though I can imagine some people still would.

01:32:25 PM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Though, I mean, I joined a little after formation, but I remember one main thing was a serious line in the sand of tolerance of that happy horseshit from that crew.

12:17:09 AM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Car> I believe every generation has unhinged drama.

But I also remember us over in Twilight Clan forming, basically, because of and in solidarity against that whole clique in total.

12:15:32 AM MST, Wednesday, December 18, 2024

They chatted like mean girls during a panel, made it hard to hear the guest. They seemed really rude during the 2nd Gathering I went to, in Pigeon Forge. It seemed like they had less respect when not running the convention.

09:48:03 PM MST, Tuesday, December 17, 2024

They always completely hijacked roleplays and sometimes tried to make them inappropriately horny and was fairly homophobic. I vaguely remember getting into the early creation of the gathering and then being really tyrannical she also unnecessarily shooting down everyone's ideas . They had gotten involved just by dint of having been around an extremely long time

08:04:47 PM MST, Tuesday, December 17, 2024

I am somewhat relieved my generation wasn't the only one with unhinged drama llamas here and there. I actually think I might have known crazypants. Their behavior sounds eerily familiar to an old or I had extremely negative interactions with.

08:01:22 PM MST, Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Adam> Yeah, in the thread linked to by the hobby drama post, I think someone mentions his reddit handle.

09:53:38 AM MST, Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Which means the other main member of the Crazy Crew must have been Greg Bishansky.

07:12:09 AM MST, Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Ok. Haze lifted. Everything clicks now.

04:45:06 PM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

Nick> Replace one of the words in the name with Demona.

04:36:27 PM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

*Reads the new links.*

Wait... who's "Crazypants" in all this? I know I'm gonna know who it is once someone drops even part of a name. Just trying to figure it out with my THC, CTE, and AGE addled brain is not producing any results.

04:09:09 PM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

This thread is fascinating and has so much fandom history/drama.

09:57:41 AM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

Ok, here was the comment, different thread than I remembered. Gonna post the other one though cause it's interesting too and has some chat history.

09:56:47 AM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

Adam> Gonna have to dig through some saved Reddit comments. Someone gave a brief explanation in a post about why there aren't Gatherings any more.

09:53:01 AM MST, Monday, December 16, 2024

River> When DID the S8 chat shut down? And why?

09:27:37 PM MST, Sunday, December 15, 2024

Added in some more S8 logs. Skipped the ones that seemed to be all spam messages back in 06, then it doesn't pick back up until the smartphone era. Still have some more years before the shutdown of the chat.

Carlemot> One thing this whole chat room has taught me is I remember WAY less than I thought LOL

03:23:01 PM MST, Sunday, December 15, 2024

Adam> .... and nowadays I'm old enough to where I wouldn't care, as long as they're at least 18 and human. :P

12:15:21 PM MST, Sunday, December 15, 2024

Finally found myself. Do NOT remember still being that goofy so late into my twenties lol. I remember all of us had aini reunion that switched over to Myspace before we all drifted apart again

07:51:59 PM MST, Saturday, December 14, 2024

Reno...I remember that chick.

At least, I think she was a chick. Who can really say,though?

06:40:41 PM MST, Saturday, December 14, 2024

River> What can I say? I had no life.

02:23:26 PM MST, Saturday, December 14, 2024

Nick> Yeah, you showed up a lot.

08:58:53 AM MST, Saturday, December 14, 2024

I'm almost afraid to look.

*Randomly clicks one.*

OH GOD THERE I AM... X_X ... *reads.* Jesus Christ...Reno. That just unlocked some memories.

11:28:32 PM MST, Friday, December 13, 2024

Adam> ;)

05:14:09 PM MST, Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Kat> The amusing thing about that is the notion that that would have been some kind of odd, isolated incident.

09:40:02 PM MST, Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Oh good, in the logs I can see that in 2003 I made a dick joke out of nowhere. Quite the wit I had 20-odd years ago. ;)

04:26:14 PM MST, Tuesday, December 03, 2024

I'm disappointed that there aren't more logs from GFW archived. Although I started out in S8, I migrated over to GFW sometime in '98 and was most active there. Bummer.

09:16:35 PM MST, Monday, December 02, 2024

Just started adding in some for Station 8. Holy crap there's more than I thought...

Only two for GFW though :( Those will be last.

10:35:22 PM MST, Sunday, December 01, 2024

I am adding in snapshots/logs of the old chat rooms. Starting with Miniclan since they have the most on the Wayback Machine. If you view the Miniclan version of the chat there's a link for OLD logs. Found Katman on there ^_^

12:19:18 PM MST, Sunday, December 01, 2024

Can't get more classic than that. @_X

....

Leo? That you? :P

07:49:21 PM MST, Saturday, November 30, 2024

I just checked the website statistics for this site and 3 people are viewing this site from Windows XP or Windows Vista..... I want to know who you are LOL

12:50:38 PM MST, Saturday, November 30, 2024

Dragon's Lair in Austin usta be a blast on Free Comic Book Day, but it's been a few years since I made it out there.

03:10:21 PM MST, Thursday, November 28, 2024

I live in an absolute comicbook desert out here. It's been a bit of a bummer. Hopefully a friend can nab me a copy. I had to resort to ordering the last issue of Quest online. Cost me twice cover price with shipping, but at least I don't have to drive two hours to a shop that probably wouldn't have an extra copy. And I got to pick the cover I wanted.

03:09:33 PM MST, Thursday, November 28, 2024

Kate> Me too! I don't think I've done one of those since 04!

07:20:14 PM MST, Friday, November 22, 2024

That Demona comic is gonna pull me out to Free Comic Book Day.
Really excited for it!

05:47:26 PM MST, Friday, November 22, 2024

Hi Gargolin!

10:04:54 AM MST, Thursday, November 21, 2024

hello everyone

08:26:42 PM MST, Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Glad to be here!

08:46:01 AM MST, Monday, November 18, 2024

Kate> I'm so pleased new fans are finding their way here and seeing what the fandom was like long ago ^_^

08:54:26 PM MST, Sunday, November 17, 2024

Chances are I'm not any Kate you know, I'm a pretty new fan after all :)

04:09:59 PM MST, Sunday, November 17, 2024

Well, it ain't Beckinsale, Bush, or Winslet....

... though it'd be cool if it was, not gonna lie...

02:18:29 PM MST, Thursday, November 14, 2024

Kate?

Backman?

09:28:05 PM MST, Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Hi Kate!

05:02:59 PM MST, Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Hello there!

08:45:58 PM MST, Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Hello!

08:14:02 PM MST, Tuesday, November 12, 2024

What's good?

08:05:38 PM MST, Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Well, if people are interested in RP again, we're working on trying to get something rolling over at Twilight Clan (it's been slow, but since there's only a few of us, it's not hard to catch up). If anyone wants to get involved and/or has questions, go for it. *adds link*

05:37:30 PM MST, Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Nick> Indeed.

07:09:52 PM MST, Saturday, November 09, 2024

Blargh.

09:52:12 AM MST, Saturday, November 09, 2024

Also, Stormy and Dylan are not the same person.

11:06:57 PM MST, Saturday, November 02, 2024

I remember Merlin Missy. I wonder where she is in 2024.

11:05:56 PM MST, Saturday, November 02, 2024

I know I wrote a few and posted them, but I'm definitely not going back to look at them. I'll be horrified by how bad the stuff I wrote was. I can remember what a lot of it was, but it was so much pop culture... and completely horribly unreadable when compared to what Adam is talking about. *L*

08:08:07 PM MST, Saturday, November 02, 2024

Adam> Direct story linking doesn't work on GFW unfortunately. I think it's php and works on a table system kinda like this chat. But easy enough to find by author and title.

05:56:37 PM MST, Friday, November 01, 2024

The most memorable fanfiction story I ever read was one called "All Through The Night" written in 1995 by Melissa "Merlin Missy" Wilson. It was a crossover of Gargoyles, the X-Files, Batman TAS, and Beauty and the Beast (the 80s version with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perleman).

That sounds like a chaotic mess of nonsense, but whoever Melissa Wilson was, she made it work surprisingly well.

It's still hosted over at GFW. I linked to it in my name.

08:21:09 PM MST, Thursday, October 31, 2024

I never fell prey to A Fan's genius marketing scheme, unfortunately. I mostly read Christine Morgan and The Gargoyles Saga collaborative fanfic. I also read some Dylan P Blacquiere (Stormy?).

It's kinda crazy how many people in the early days used their own names. I looked up Christine Morgan and, of course, she's an author. Looked up Dylan and he's a neurologist. Crazy stuff.

06:13:06 PM MST, Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Haha, I remember A Fan. ;)

12:38:54 PM MST, Tuesday, October 29, 2024

I'm pretty sure I read a number of the stories, NGL.

12:06:40 PM MST, Tuesday, October 29, 2024

A Fan> The plan seems to have worked since I recognize your name 25+ years on and I don't personally know you. The weird things we remember ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

11:14:17 PM MST, Sunday, October 27, 2024

It was my secret plan to be #1... alphabetically

04:49:50 PM MST, Sunday, October 27, 2024

That might be it lol... seeing it in the GFW fanfic list back in the day. Nice to meet you!

03:22:15 PM MST, Sunday, October 27, 2024

I don't know if a lot was accurate... but I was around...wrote some stories I'm not always 100% proud of...

01:23:45 PM MST, Sunday, October 27, 2024

A Fan> Hi! I don't think I know you but I feel like I remember seeing your name a lot. One of the comment rooms?

12:32:08 PM MST, Sunday, October 27, 2024

Way before everyone's time I think


Chat used to be eat more dramatic in phase one. In retrospect it was nuts!

06:08:46 PM MST, Saturday, October 26, 2024

Dude, I can't believe nobody from my gen in miniclan n back in the early to mid 90s have popped in. So lonely ;;

I just also remembered I was the leader o miniclan for like a week until I was dropped because it came out I was having an affair with another member. Ahhh teenage fandom drama

06:05:35 PM MST, Saturday, October 26, 2024

Haven't used this alias in a while. Gedoena told me about this. Miss the days where talking in Station 8 was my sanctuary.

05:33:10 PM MST, Saturday, October 26, 2024

Nick> I had a Razr but by that point wasn't chatting on here any longer. I only ever chatted on a computer originally. I hate the chat submit form on my phone, it's harder to look for errors before submitting.

09:40:32 AM MST, Saturday, October 26, 2024

Yeah, Auto-reload only made it to s8 and TCG.

Though accessing this on a Smartphone has to be way easier than trying to access it on an original Motorola Razr.

08:04:45 PM MST, Friday, October 25, 2024

Sounds fun ;). I am terrible on cell phones. Half the time I think I live in the 90s still. Like when I can't figure out how to do something on my data phone... or when I am shocked (and unwilling) to be expected to use an app to do something like use coupons. One store's app was called something like "clip coupons". I kept asking where the coupon flier was so I could clip them. Of course...my husband does most of the shopping!

06:23:01 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

gedoena> It does work on a phone, but it's a weird and slightly unsatisfying experience. I've had to do it a few times on a busier days when I'm walking the dog.

06:07:21 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Ok... I try to stay off the computer on the weekends but I might check in :). Does this site work on a cell phone? (Although I should stay away from that too and focus on my kids!)

05:41:03 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Yeah, I didn't figure today would be busy, it really only picks up on the weekends. There wasn't anything planned for today so much, I was just trying to promote the room again before the 30tha anniversary.

I created the room about a year ago and then didn't do anything with it until after Carlemot found his way in here. Then I figured I'd start promoting closer to he anniversary of the show premiere.

05:29:23 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Too bad today was slow...my husband found something on reddit or somewhere saying that there was going to be a big get-together here for the 30th anniversery. I notice he hasn't showed up either... I can't blame him for spending the day cleaning the garage though!

04:46:55 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

gedoena> nice to meet you as well! It seems like there's a good mix between the chat rooms so I don't know most people as well lol. I'm still in touch with one other chatter on a regular basis myself - they were the best man at my wedding.

04:32:49 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

But it is nice to "meet" you! I don't do a lot of gargoyles-related interaction nowadays - other than having met my husband on the listserv! But we watch it every few years and our kids love it too.

04:15:51 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Ok :). I was only on s8 and a listserv so probably did not know you.

04:15:03 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

I was originally Baby Fey in GFW, but eventually I stopped writing the name, and my IP at the time included the word river so people started calling me that. So mostly River :)

04:04:19 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Hi, River! Was that your original handle?

03:42:09 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Happy 30th birthday Gargoyles!

gedoena> yeah it's an oddity these days, you're either actively on it or not, no notifications lol

Hi Springsprite!

02:34:11 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Lurking s8 since around 97, seldom posted. Great to see people chatting again.

01:49:18 PM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

And...now I recall the drawback of this system.... you have to come back to reload and because you are obsessed with it, you come back every 30 seconds or so.
I am in work crunch, so not the BEST idea...

08:38:13 AM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

My husband said he saw somewhere that today was to be a get-together here, but looks like the messagews are back through the last month or so...

08:33:48 AM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Whow.... *climbs up into the rafters, much less nimbly than last time she was in here*.
I used to enhabit s8...usually stayed on all night until the Europeans got up. Sounds exhausting...

08:28:31 AM MST, Thursday, October 24, 2024

Man. Facebook seems more and more useless by the day. I usta use it mostly to keep up with the semi-local nerd squad, to make plans and whatnot, but steady social media attrition has whittled the gang down significantly. Now I just sort of ramble about comics into the void.

05:18:08 PM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Thanks to the wrestling shit, I really don't know a lot of people by their real names. Just their "Gimmick" names.

The Garg chats fall into that category for me.

02:14:05 PM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Adam> Ok. I shoulda said: "Chat Handle".

02:12:44 PM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

2002: Williamsburg, Virginia
June 28 - June 30

Con Chair: Laurean Leigh
Special Guests
Greg Guler, character designer
Greg Weisman, series creator

07:44:26 AM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Might sound like a stupid question, but remember:
Now I'm 41. I've spent the last almost 20 years getting concussed and smoking weed. This chat room is actually bringing back some memories and whatnot I haven't thought of since before I actually got into the wrestling industry.

Who was it that was head of the group that ran the last Gathering in Williamsburg?

06:44:36 AM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Adam> I mean... found out of a refusal to play by others' rules... It's almost poetic we're still going while everywhere else has either faded into the ether of (if lucky) the Wayback Machine or is a weird shell of what it once was.

The comfort of the hardheaded among each other. Yet, we still plug along, even if now we more split time between the chat room and the Discord channel.

06:41:43 AM MST, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

I still find it amusing that the last surviving HTML Gargoyles-themed chatroom was started simply because one person was dissatisfied with any chatroom she herself didn't control, and picked her favorite people from the other chatrooms and took them with her.

It's obviously not that now, and hasn't been for years, but still, that was how it started, and now (aside from this bit of nostalgia-bait), it's all that remains.

07:37:45 PM MST, Monday, October 21, 2024

Nick> No, strictly GFW for me. I was in Emanon clan back in the day

06:57:03 PM MST, Monday, October 21, 2024

River> Yeah, because you mostly were in Mini, right?

05:15:55 PM MST, Monday, October 21, 2024

YellowBerry> Yep! At the top of it's internet popularity, there were several chat rooms with similar designs for different groups (and in some cases "Clans"). (All pretty much derivatives of the person who did the original design. Gotta word it right because we do have a guy under the name Whoever. He'd probably reply, but he was in a part of Florida that got hit by the 'canes.)

s8 was the one that was, for the most part, the "Official" chat room for Gargoyles. A number of people who had been involved with the show were regulars for quite a while. Gargoyles Fans Website (or GFW for short) was the big fan website with loads of user-made content. (Mostly stories or art and whatnot.) But it also had a chatroom, which had it's own collection of people. Then there was the original biggest of the "Clans", Mini-Clan. They had their own chat and whatnot. (I, honestly, rarely went there.) And the last one not represented in the chat version options, is the Twilight Clan (TCG for short, and NOT named for the f'n book/movie series). We started in 2004-5ish, and are still chugging along with "our own thing".

The differences in the chats were mostly that s8 was an out of character chat. Role Playing was mostly discouraged. The other three had their own RPing universes. GFW was pretty normal. Can't really speak on Mini. And in TCG... we've always been the renegades. :P

05:11:56 PM MST, Monday, October 21, 2024

River> I know. It's easy to feel dirty using the tools of the evil digital alien sentient AI overlord Mark Zuckerberg, especially since the loss of time traveling interdimensional overgenius and ACTUAL rocket scientist John Carmack from Meta.

04:44:30 PM MST, Monday, October 21, 2024

Nick> I'm gonna do it... gonna post a link on FB. I don't think I've used it in 10 years since the Legend of Korra ended, pretty sure that was the last thing I posted on my timeline -_- I feel weird.

01:10:56 PM MST, Sunday, October 20, 2024

Hi Ami, Gabriel! Where did you guys chat?

11:54:43 AM MST, Sunday, October 20, 2024

This is amazing! I spent so many hours here as a kid.

08:17:10 AM MST, Sunday, October 20, 2024

Damn this takes me back.

09:33:30 PM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

Yellowflowerevy> That is so cool! When I made this chat, I always hoped at least one new person would wander in here :) This is pretty much what it was like back in the day. I tried to faithfully recreate the style of the main three chat rooms. To further enhance the experience, just imagine viewing this on an old desktop computer, probably with a screen resolution of 800x600, on dialup. Those were the heyday of the web based chats lol

Normally I'd recommend going to the Internet Archive and searching for the three chats, they have some days archived. But it seems they're still suffering from a DDOS and most pages won't load.

01:28:11 PM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

I never did these before actually I was always interested in the fandom, but I was not aware that these kind of things existed. I wish I’d been a part of them sooner. I just really love the series.

01:09:51 PM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

Hi Yellowflowerevy! Which chat room did you use back in the day?

12:43:41 PM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

Wow this is exciting

10:46:51 AM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

Nick> I just can't get into the non-chronological order of current day social media. Give me a timeline, not an algorithm :/ I've been trying to stay to websites in the style of Web 1.0 when I'm killing time. I've found Wiby, Neocities, and Tildeverse are pretty good.

09:35:54 AM MST, Saturday, October 19, 2024

There is definitely a line between eras with advertising this.

And I don't blame ya about Facebook and social media.

06:06:00 PM MST, Friday, October 18, 2024

Nick> Yeah, once the chat rooms are set up, there's not really much in the way of maintenance LOL. And no, nothing on Facebook. This past year I've been trying to stay away from traditional social media and stick more to simple websites. If you're on facebook and want to post a link on Saturday, go for it. From the website statistics, it looks like the link has been shared somewhere on there as a few people have been redirected from the site.

I was pondering how to promote the site with my stepdaughter and she said "what about instragram and snapchat?". I just shook my head and had a hard time explaining that was not the most likely audience to find former chatters.

01:50:46 PM MST, Friday, October 18, 2024

... Just gotta break the spell... once the castle rises above the clouds....

*Takes a rip on the dab rig.*

03:20:36 PM MST, Thursday, October 17, 2024

Mentioned it on any of the FB groups yet? I know a number of them actually have more of the old chatters attached than anything.

03:11:30 PM MST, Thursday, October 17, 2024

I mean, Twilight Clan has continued to run for 15-20 years now. Isa's kept us up and running the last 5 years alone just by herself, if my time framing is right... THC, CTE, and AGE are getting to me and whatnot...

03:09:29 PM MST, Thursday, October 17, 2024

Not a ton. Web hosting is pretty cheap, I just have to throw in the VPS for the php which is only a bit more. Was pretty interesting to build, and I have to imagine much less complicated than the old chat room scripts.

08:08:18 PM MST, Sunday, October 13, 2024

Okay, good to know. I'll keep checking it.

Is having this here costing you anything?

07:57:40 PM MST, Sunday, October 13, 2024

Adam> Well yeah, web-based chats just aren't the rage anymore ;)

I plan on promoting the chat one more time, the weekend before the 30th anniversary. Which should be next weekend now LOL

04:13:41 PM MST, Sunday, October 13, 2024

Well, this petered out.

11:10:27 AM MST, Friday, October 11, 2024

Hello Enyo

08:39:16 PM MST, Monday, September 30, 2024

I'll write up a blurb about myself soon. I wanted to pop in and say hello first. :)

Holy shit, what a blast from the past. 😎

08:03:53 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

River> I got mushy when I saw it, thank you very much. ❤️🙂

07:53:53 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

Enyo> Katman just pointed out to me that your name is one of the specified by name in the Miniclan chat submit form (I'm usually using GFW). I copied each sub form's color options from the Wayback Machine and tried to grab them all. So cool to see someone that's named on the Miniclan chat ^_^

Adam> Arizona time is superior. No daylight savings!

07:49:17 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

River> Bah. ;)

07:46:18 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

Hi Enyo!

Katman> Website owner gets to choose the time zone. Not sure, hopefully it won't do daylight savings lol.

07:43:52 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

Agreed. This is BUSH LEAGUE.

07:42:20 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

Waitaminute, this is in Mountain Standard Time? Literally unusable. ;)

07:36:42 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

O.o

07:31:49 PM MST, Sunday, September 29, 2024

River> Yeah. The logo for the good guys side. Looks exactly like linked (but with shading to look like it was stamped into my chest as opposed to drawn).

08:55:26 PM MST, Thursday, September 26, 2024

Nick> Whats the Autobot tattoo? Is it their symbol? I'm not the hugest Transformers fan, but I'm firmly of the mind that the opening to the 80s movie was one of the best starts to a movie ever. Haunting, beautiful, scary.

07:32:01 PM MST, Thursday, September 26, 2024

I always wanted to get a Gargoyles tat. Might still at some point. Add it to my Autobots and Chicago Cubs tats.

11:28:40 AM MST, Thursday, September 26, 2024

You should! I have always liked your art.

07:12:52 PM MST, Tuesday, September 24, 2024

I never could commit to a tattoo. I sketched up a nifty arrangement of fantasy swords that meant something to me, the shards of Narsil, a 40k space nuns chainsword, Leonardo's katana, He-Man's sword, et al. But I never did anything with it. I think it'd at least make a fun graphic tee one day.

06:22:00 AM MST, Tuesday, September 24, 2024

My Demona tattoo is now 25 years old. Please stop the relentless march of time. It's showing its age a bit (unlike the real thing) but since it's on my lower back the sun hasn't contributed. It's the only fandom tattoo I ever got, though I've entertained the idea of Buffy or ATLA/LoK tattoos.

06:02:40 PM MST, Monday, September 23, 2024

My geekery (aside from a handful of tiki mugs and vintage fast food glassware) is currently confined to my library (I am so happy to finally have a dedicated space for it). Which means not nearly enough room to keep my figures on display; those gargoyle wings are especially egregious space hogs. That'll change when I clear out the workshop, though. Currently full of old furniture and tractor.

04:46:03 AM MST, Monday, September 23, 2024

So far, I've just gotten the first Goliath and Angela figs. But that's it so far. Bills and existence and whatnot.

08:51:40 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Beauty> yeah, they're all showing for me. I'm using the gfw version and see the link below your name.

06:04:02 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

River> Oh, you can see it? For some reason it won't work in Firefox. I am using these lil plastic ones I found on Amazon. Since winter is approaching, I think I will pick up a few hoodies!

05:47:12 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

*sighs in resignation*

05:45:33 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Beauty> I love it! Which stand are you using for Goliath? And teepublic has fantastic stuff. I've bought hoodies, tanks, and t-shirts. The prints don't hold up forever if you dry them, but it just makes them look aged in my opinion. The tri blends and super soft hoodies are particularly nice.

05:43:59 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Oh drat, you cannot see my collection...

Maybe this link will work?

05:39:20 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

I have been faithfully collecting the comics as they come out, and have a few shirts and all the current NECA figurines. I wish some of the comic covers could be posters because they're pretty awesome and I would love to hang them behind the figurines. Until recently I didn't have a dedicated space for the geekery but since I bought this house in 2022 I have been filling it with my hobbies and such. I don't collect much, apart from gargoyles and plants.

I didn't know that tee public had shirts, but now I'm going to give them all my money!

05:36:50 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

I've been collecting some of the NECA figures. Currently I have Demona, Bronx, Xanatos (not in armor), and Hudson. I asked for Xanatos for Christmas and my husband got me Hudson as a bonus. I think Hudson probably looks best out of all of them. I've thought about getting others, but I don't really like the way some of them look :/ I'm really hoping for either an Owen or a Puck figure. I feel like that would complete my set. I haven't found a good way to have them set up without awkward posing or falling over though. And my elderly cat, Tori, is constantly knocking them over like some god descending from the heavens as she passes over the shelf to her resting spot.

I try to buy any new t-shirts, tanks, or hoodies from Teepublic so I can be a nerd. I have a Goliath Gym tank (linked) that I like to wear. Unfortunately, I haven't had anyone mention knowing the show, whereas when I wear my Firelord Iroh shirt, I get way more comments.

12:12:04 PM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Nick> I have been buying the Gargoyles toys and comics as they come out (the toys are starting to get surprisingly deep into the roster), so I'm glad Disney tried floating it back out there.

I'm really not sure it'll go anywhere outside of a little wave of nostalgia though. It seems like all the studios thought the streaming well was a lot deeper than it is.

10:15:25 AM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

In a hardware store, not on. Cue disappointed muppets on top of a building.

10:08:57 AM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Man. I feel lucky (so-far) to've not had any major health issues; nothing that's kept me from going a little harder than I probably should. I know I should get my diet together since there's a family history of various heart and blood pressure issues hanging over my head.

I did recently move to the ol family estate (a creaky farmhouse on a nice bit of acreage) where I shall continue being a bit of a bohemian weirdo working on a hardware store just more rural. And honestly being out here in the trees with room to spread out and start projects has done a lot for my mental state.

10:07:27 AM MST, Sunday, September 22, 2024

46 here.I suffered a compression fracture in my spine about 10 years back and get flareups now and then. I also went bald, although that started in my 20s.

One weird thing that happened earlier this year was that my toe started hurting badly enough that I was having trouble walking. I had no idea what could possibly be going on until my doctor said it was gout. I was floored, but then remembered that my 13-year old had recently developed a taste for livermush and I'd been indulging myself. So much for that, I guess.

Luckily, I've had no need for head meds, but I'm a guy. As you know, none of us are self-reflective enough to develop neurosis.

08:43:33 PM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

Adam> I'm lucky, I've made it to 43 without much issue. Joint wise I'm maintained by running and yoga, so I still feel 20. However, my stomach is not with it, and is much more finicky than when I was young. She tolerates my paramours, the cheeses, much less these days :*( Also, I am addicted to the truly spicy, but my stomach is not fond of that hobby. I've been on and off the head meds, but these days with being outside a ton with the dog, I've been able to white knuckle the depression/anxiety.

05:51:18 PM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

Adam that seem particularly accurate!

03:02:05 PM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

All of these fan types are now united by the experience of joint pain and long-term medication schedules.

02:46:39 PM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

Nick> That seems about right LOL

09:58:48 AM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

How it breaks down (my theory) :

GFW: Disney World (With the occasional person flashing the in-ride camera)
s8: The office building staff... but they've been told their pizza party has been cancelled
Mini: What happens when you put a buncha monkeys with ADHD in a barrel with a single Rubik's Cube
Twilight: THE Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy of the fandom.

09:38:16 AM MST, Saturday, September 21, 2024

I remember my RP arc was long sfw to>nsfw to in private chats that existed on s8 at the time that you needed a private url to access>too busy playing quake or being a furry

10:48:21 PM MST, Friday, September 20, 2024

RP was always a big thing for me, though I didn't mind just chatting. I still RP in the Twilight Clan with the few people who still visit there.

05:54:29 PM MST, Friday, September 20, 2024

Yeah I never really roleplayed either. I just liked to hang around to chat. I remember a group chatting in IRC and slapping each other with trout I believe.

I agree that the chat room just seemed to be for people who like Gargoyles, rather than about Gargoyles. I feel like I appreciated the fandom almost more than the show itself, especially as the years went on. I've found other favorite pieces of fiction, but Gargoyles always holds a special place because of the community.

10:21:56 AM MST, Friday, September 20, 2024

I also never really got into roleplaying all that much. I know it was the main thing for a lot of people, though.

08:18:26 AM MST, Friday, September 20, 2024

Gotta say, it was only nominally a gargoyles chat for me since I couldn't maintain any RP. The cartoon seemed to be a common ground for a bunch of generally creative folks I could vibe with.

06:34:46 AM MST, Friday, September 20, 2024

River> Hell, I feel ya there. I just ended a personal deactivation of my Facebook account just because of some personal shit having to do with a friend of mine (as seen in the TCG Discord). I seriously was surprised by how much it helped my mental health. To the point my memory was becoming clearer and better outta nowhere. (I don't think there's a DIRECT correlation between the two, but I also highly wouldn't doubt it.)

You really do gotta sometimes just remove social media from your life. I know I replaced it with funny dog video shorts on YouTube and random documentaries on varying subjects. A lot healthier for the mind.

12:29:23 AM MST, Thursday, September 19, 2024

Beauty> I missed websites that you could step away from and then come back to instead of being another thing along my status bar to check. And I also missed being part of a smaller group, like a fish in a pond, rather than a drop in the ocean in the case of social media.

I've been trying to stay away from doom scrolling on the standard big 5/10? big websites since January. I still doomscroll on Reddit too much since it's just too easy to do on my phone. But I try to get onto my personal PC and look at actual websites. I've found Neocities which is like a modern day geocities with a sliiight social twist. And my favorite is Wiby, which is a search engine/surprise me site that links to Old web style sites (gonna link this).

10:08:43 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Honestly, that's what I miss most.

10:01:12 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Adam> Yeah, I never created this with the intention of it becoming what it once was, an active chat - the world it came from no longer exists. A web-based chat room isn't going to be visited as much as stuff that sends you notifications. Hell, even I forget to check for new messages for weeks at a time LOL. But I'm still pretty pleased that anyone showed at all, and it's nice to chat this way again even for a while and maybe help people reconnect. It is nice to read stuff linearly and not from an algorithm for once.

08:06:56 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Nick> That was before they blew their wad on "The Acolyte" and had it tank. That's the POWER OF MAAAANYYYYYY.

07:30:09 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Yeah... Disney made news a few months ago because they were gonna bring it all back... and now....................... silence.

05:49:02 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

*angrily shakes fist at the sky*

03:17:50 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

After the initial burst of nostalgia-driven interest, this appears to have tapered off.

It's almost like there's nothing new to say about the old show, and little appetite for discussing podcasts and back pain like the middle-aged people we are.

12:27:48 PM MST, Wednesday, September 18, 2024

I have been absolutely terrible at maintaining any presence in online communities. I think the Gargoyles bunch was the only place it was relatively effortless.

07:38:44 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Ha! Better than me. I don't even remember what I did yesterday...

07:20:22 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Hah, well, I have a slightly better grasp on yesterday's events than those twenty-some years ago. But this text box sure is comfy.

07:14:26 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

*wave wave* Feels like yesterday, eh?

07:03:17 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Man, I've missed the ol' joint. Though I think most of my more robust memories are from the Twilight years.

07:03:12 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

A post, perhaps!

06:48:57 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Leo> That makes sense. I read the comment rooms but almost never dropped a comment. The only time I did was when I found out another girl in my high school knew someone in the chat. Coyote was the person that she knew I believe.

Hi Whoever!

06:37:00 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

I first started out in TGS / Station 8 around 2001. I participated more the “comment rooms” which were slower paced. I think Chat rooms were a little more intimidating, My brain isn’t wired to keep track of the multiple convos and I don’t have the talent for on the fly role playing either so I more of a chat lurker

05:56:07 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

*respectfully pushes Nick down the stairs*
;)

03:19:56 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

*Shoves Whoever off a barstool.* ;)

02:25:51 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

I was a late arrival in GFW back in the yonder days, don't remember the year. But part of Twilight Clan for the longest time.

Hello folks!

01:20:59 PM MST, Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Lurking as well while I play some FFX.

08:20:36 PM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

*lurks*

07:16:43 PM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

Hi again Katman and Carlemot. :)

Hi Leo! Your name seems vaguely familiar but let me know where/when you chatted. I am old and I swear I remember chat colors better than names lol

06:55:36 PM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

😀

05:59:11 PM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

;)

03:09:58 PM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

Gosh, some people who actually overlapped with my time active in the clan for a time. I was a crotchety oldbie at the age of 18 or 19 at that point and already fading into the background. I almost completely left the internet from 19-25 so I basically dropped off the face of the earth and so was unable to keep up with ANYBODY from the 94-99 era and vicey-versey

09:36:50 AM MST, Monday, September 16, 2024

River> Thank you!!!! That was the clan.

04:58:42 PM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

Thank you for the invitation, River.

11:15:30 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

Hi Rosanna and Silverbolt!

10:54:45 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

Peeking over from the Twilight Clan Chat. Hi everyone!

10:43:20 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

Back in the chat now after getting my morning stuff done. Time to see if I can get more people to enter the chat.

Beauty> It was Emanon clan (no name backwards). I was part of that clan too. Here's the wayback machine link, though only the landing page works unfortunately :(

10:30:55 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

Hah, I will have to find the discord - none of those links worked for Twilight Clan. Which one was Stickman's? I think that's the one I was in.

06:57:31 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

My God this takes me back...

04:19:28 AM MST, Sunday, September 15, 2024

I am heading out for the night, but will return tomorrow.

Haven't typed this in forever: *gone*

10:51:04 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Amd I didn't mean for that to sound snarky.

10:45:04 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

AMGC... some works of Shinga before she became a semi-famous internet cartoonist.

10:29:00 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Here's another old link. Adult monthly gargoyles contest (AMGC) courtesy of the Wayback Machine.

10:26:22 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Though, nice to see my memory is actually still halfway working.

10:19:03 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I know I was an annoying POS 20-25 years ago, but.... woooooooooooooo boooooooooooooooooooooooooy.....

As I've said, I hope he's matured like the rest of us have.

10:15:46 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

OHHH YEAHHHHH then.

>;)

I HOPE he's changed over the last 20 years.

10:14:45 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Ron, Isa, and I are pretty much the last somewhat active members of Twilight Clan. Rosanna has been popping up again, and Adam and Katz (Matt/Katman/Fencing Master) pop in from time to time.

10:13:52 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Nick> Yes, if you watch the Gargoyles DVD and check out the Gathering DVD extra, they're in there together. That was a Canadian Gathering? Montreal? Timestamped youtube link :)

I attended Los Angeles and Pigeon Forge

10:13:49 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I also remember Jake... and the gals from Puerto Rico... I think one of them was Caliope but we went to an anime con together and kept in touch for awhile. Jake ended up going to college pretty close to me so we met up a few times and I ended up becoming friends with his girlfriend who I still keep up with. I cannot remember the garg name tho for Jake...

10:11:45 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

*key hinge, And I don't know if that's a real term, but it works.

10:10:06 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

... did he date Isa at any point? That's the keyhinge point.

10:09:23 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Lol fair. Probably. I honestly forgot a lot of the supposed drama maybe? Thank Odin for a terrible memory.

10:07:13 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I ended up moving for college near him over 20 years ago, dated for a while but broke up on so so terms. For me, it was so long ago that yeah, different person altogether now so no hard feeling from my side.

10:05:30 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

But, as Paul Levesque said:
"If you are the same person you were 10 years ago 10 years later? Then you've messed up."

And a lot of us are going on 20-30 years ago. X_X

10:03:12 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

That AND I'm only 50% sure if I'm right or wrong because THC, CTE, and AGE are getting to me. :P

09:59:50 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Beauty> Well, not good ones. Like... it's been 20 years, so most people let stuff go, but I dunno. Olllllllllllllld drama.

09:59:05 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

*wonders if they are good or bad alarms*

09:51:53 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

*Tries to figure out why alarms are going off in his head.*

09:49:58 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Aww Shade. <3

09:47:13 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Beauty> I remember Nashua and Kristiana and Stickman and Shade. I actually met Sgt Goliath once over 20 years ago (owner of that webpage) and Lex (miniclan) who I run into occasionally at the grocery store. And yes, I remember ICQ, I have it as my text message send. Uh oh! :)

09:45:18 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

It's amazing that ICQ JUST shut down either early this year or sometime last year.

09:43:56 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Oh wow, it has Xeira mentioned. I remember that name too!

09:41:48 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Remember ICQ??

09:39:48 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Holy crap, lots of new messages rolled in a while I was away. Hi Leapleaf!

I chatted in GFW 96 to 04(?) I believe. The web 1.0 was the best. I thought it would be forever but it really wasn't. I'm still in contact with Katman, but he was a Miniclanner, and we never really talked in the same chat rooms.

Beauty> Here's a link to one of the rehosted Geocities websites :) Has some working and broken links.

I feel old and while I use discord (including the twilight one), I never really get it. I actually hopped on IRC the other day to feel the old school vibes.

09:37:11 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Adam> Holy crap, Slapnia. Haven't thought about her in a few decades, but I definitely remember the name.

09:29:14 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Or this?

09:27:23 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Hmm. Maybe this link'll work.

09:26:06 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

There's the Twilight Clan Discord. Only one I know of. Slapnia's not there, though. She and I keep in touch over FB Messenger.

09:25:31 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I forgot she lived in Minnesota. Lol. I ended up in that very state and have been very happy here the last 7 years. She must have ear wormed me many many many years ago. I remember at first being intimidated and in awe of her. <3

We should start a discord or something. Are there any around?

09:20:42 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Nick> Yeah, Leah recruited heavily from the East Coast. Not sure if that was intentional or coincidence.

09:20:16 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

She's fine, still lives in Minnesota, still takes no shit from anyone and is blunt as hell. She'll probably turn up here soon, I already sent this link to her.

Another one I saw down below I used to talk to a lot back in the day was Demona Taina.

It's kind of odd to think of how long it's been since I've chatted like this, yet how familiar and "normal" it feels.

09:18:58 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I know I was at the last Gathering in Williamsburg. Only time I've seen any Non-Virginians in person.

Twilight Clan somehow ended up with a LOOOOOOOAD of us from The Commonwealth.

09:18:37 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

These are all names from my past and envoke such fond memories. I think I was in Sticky's clan. You still chat with Slap????? How is she? I miss her. We got close for a bit but as life goes things kind of fade away as we get busy.

I still chat with Deacon Blue from time to time. We've kept in touch. And Guardian - but it's been a hot minute since I last talked with her. Ona and I were penpals for a bit too - but college and life after kind of took me off the net for a spell.

Awwww. I missed out on one held in LA and I was so sad - I didn't learn about it until way later :C

09:13:40 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I started out in S8 in '96, moved over to GFW '97 to '04, then was among those who migrated to Twilight Chat with Direwolf (Leah Smith) when she started that site up.

In that time, I knew a whole host of people...Stickman, Slapnia, Montanna of Moonsong, Chance Darkholme, Strider, Datron Falcon, Katman...the list goes on and on.

The only one I still know and speak to regularly is Slapnia.

I wound up dating and moving in with Montanna for a couple of years around the turn of the century, then Direwolf introduced me to someone I eventually married (who was never a regular chatter here).

I went to the '04 Gathering in Montreal along with Isa and Iva, but that was the only one.

09:06:26 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I chatted in here tons when I was 14, at the dawn of the goddamn internet. I’m now 37, married, and living in San Francisco. And I am, forever and always, obsessed with Gargoyles.

08:55:57 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

River> Yeah. Though kinda surprised I made it to now. Seriously figured I woulda ended myself in some ludicrous insane wrestling match by now.

08:54:20 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

River> I know! I am glad this was around when it was and not later, because now internet is forever and I cringe remembering some of my antics back in the day. Congrats River!! That's awesome and exciting. It's so crazy to still be in touch with folks from an internet chat 30 years ago! You should link some of the stuff you find. I came across the monthly gargoyles contest and remembering all the old artists brings back a tear of nostalgia.

08:51:49 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Nick> Yeah, we're all getting there these days. More years lived after the gargoyles heyday than before it. The relentless march of time yaaaay.

08:50:36 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

*Pops in.*

... yeah. My ass is now old, but still around.

07:59:34 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Beauty> Looking at the character picture, and the chat color, I definitely remember you. I'm good! Got married last year with a fellow garg chatter in attendance. Now have two teenage stepdaughters and a 1 year old Aussie pup. Life is a lot different than I thought it would be back when I chatted here for sure. Lately I've been trawling the Internet archive and the rehosted Geocities webpages looking at old gargoyles sites. There's a surprising amount still hanging out there!

07:35:36 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Yes! I was a GFW chatter mostly. I remember you too! How have you been?

I managed to find old artwork I did of my OC and every once in a while the kiddo will find my old sketchbooks and ask me about them. I tried to sit down with them and watch the show on Disney+ but could never hold their interest. I am holding out hope tho!

07:16:11 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Eeeee! New people coming in, so excited!

Beauty> Hi! I am 99% sure you are a GFW chatter, correct? Good to see you!

Katman> Hi there, Mr Best Man at my wedding. You're still in contact with at least one other garg chatter, right?

This website is awful on mobile. Walking the dog currently so have to post this way. I used to dream about being able to post on the go in the 90s. That was a fucking monkey's paw wish :/

06:04:59 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Oh my gosh!! It’s been 20 years at least. This was where I spent my formative years and still have friendships to the day with a few of y’all. Hiyeeee!

05:52:47 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Green. ;)

04:31:00 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Instead of missing any new messages by three days like I usually have, I am going to try to hang around the chat room this weekend so I can greet any visitors. Planning on doing a FFX replay as an era-appropriate side activity in another window.

Hello to any chatters, old or new!

04:17:21 PM MST, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Hi Beth! Glad to see another person found this place!

I'm hoping to promote this place a bit more in the run up to the 30th, but please feel free to link this to any known garg chatters.

08:49:48 AM MST, Wednesday, September 11, 2024

October 2024 will be 30 years of gargoyles!! Let's gather again and do something fun!!

03:35:04 AM MST, Sunday, September 08, 2024

I am indeed the original Beth Maza from S8 who organized the first Gathering 😁 Hoping to hear from old friends 😘

03:29:31 AM MST, Sunday, September 08, 2024

Hola! Anyone here from the original s8 chat with Gorebash back in the day?

03:27:13 AM MST, Sunday, September 08, 2024

Please do not call me Car. I forgot the rest of my name :I I am not a car (vroom)

07:19:45 PM MST, Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Its so weird after the S8 chat went away none of us at the very least started a FB community or something to keep up with each other. We all really dropped the ball on that one haha. I'm really struggling to find out where people may have congregated. (That and I'm back at work now so my time is now minimal!)

07:19:03 PM MST, Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Meant to shop this place around more but was at a convention because I'm still a big ol' nerd!

01:58:56 PM MST, Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Just posted a link to this place in Reddit. If you're here from that link, please leave a message :)

04:36:04 PM MST, Sunday, May 26, 2024

Oops!

07:42:22 PM MST, Saturday, May 25, 2024

Bandeet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0bhSV5VgAETCvb?format=jpg&name=large

07:42:01 PM MST, Saturday, May 25, 2024

Here's River.

06:52:07 PM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

Dog tax - here's a picture of Rhaenys

05:51:48 PM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

I have a chihuahua named Bandito

...because he is a Bandito

11:07:09 AM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

Comfort and cash, the most seductive of job perks. I get the IT burn-out, though. I wound up facerolling a number of IT jobs at varying levels from call centre up to management. Never again. Ugh. I've been shopping around to see what options I can get for some agricultural study. I think that'd be cool. Small hobby farm type stuff. Haha. I've got a german shepherd, whose name also happens to be River. So named because when we first brought her home, she fell asleep in her water bowl.

09:52:51 AM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

Hi :) Yeah, wanted something nostalgic for the upcoming anniversary.

09:48:31 AM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

Wow, this takes me back!

04:52:33 AM MST, Friday, May 24, 2024

I also work in my pajamas, alongside my Australian Shepherd, Rhaenys Targaryen :)

10:55:29 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

My love of computers and the chat rooms led me to get an Associates in Computer Technology. Moved to Maine near to another chatter from GFW. Didn't stay long in the computer industry - it burnt me out as a job and not hobby, and besides, computers became pretty disposible. But my background with computers and being forced to just figure stuff out has seriously helped me at every job since then. I work in the Medicare insurance industry as a sort of Salesforce page admin (sorta) currently.

I loved the people of Maine but just could not abide the cold as I'd come from Arizona. I'm just a desert creature. So almost 20 years ago I moved to Tucson AZ, now living closer to Tombstone AZ.

10:52:11 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

I was going to get a degree in Social Work because Portland State University apparently has a nationally renowned social work program but the prerequisites were intimidaing. I'm currently looking into working with people dealing with addiction issues or caught up in the criminal justice system but the money for my current job is too compelling (and I get to work in my pajamas) :(

09:28:21 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

Green. ;)

09:16:51 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

Never heard of Twilight that I can recall. A quick search tells me Gore might still be in Mass. I know there was a Deneb on Taps a while back but not sure if it was the same Deneb that kicked around with us. I didn't really keep tabs on anyone. I think I talked to Steph briefly a while back when the Katurran Odyssey book came out. She'd done some art on that. That's about the extent of my usefulness.

Congrats on the Degree. Man, I know /so/ many psychologists now. You're like the fifth or sixth among friends and family. Closest I ever got to going back to school was working at the University of Alberta for a while. Man, did that place ever suck.

08:02:10 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

Not sure if you knew anyone from there, but the Twilight Clan has been up and running for over 20 years as far as I can tell. It's not too frequently used but I ran into it by chance earlier this year and think I knew a few people from there. To be honest, I feel like I remember colors better than names in GFW at this point?

As far as Miniclan, I knew Lexy IRL, we went to the same college for a year and I lived in the same city as her post college. Would randomly pass by her in the supermarkets.

06:06:59 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

I'll try to do some detective work when I get the chance but I don't even know where to start There's was so many people with fairly common names like 'Abigail' 'Faye' 'Odin' 'Drizzt' and stuff like that. Makes it so hard to track people down. I found Kithara on Furaffinity at some point but didnt get a response.

I was actually in contact with many oldbies on Myspace about a decade ago but we all lost track of each other when Myspace went kaputski

04:56:16 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

OMG people found this place. Was going to promote the chat reunion as the date got closer to the 30th anniversary of the show, but I'm so happy people found their way here. What a pleasant surprise :)

I'm really only in contact these days with Namtakthropic (was at my wedding). He chatted in Miniclan I believe.

12:14:43 PM MST, Thursday, May 23, 2024

I suppose I should give my own update. In the past 20 years I've went through many ups and downs in my life. Three different bouts of substance abuse issues, got a degree in Psychology. Went to UK and France for awhile. Have worked in miscellaneous fields unrelated to my degree. Am an aro/queer record collector and ne'erdo well. I am recently 7 months sober and very proud of it. I hike, collect records, have a collection of musical instruments (bongos, keyboard, and bass) that largely collect dust.

My favorite fruit is pineapple, back when I did smoke cigarettes I tended to menthols or camel wides, I still occasionally dabble in psychedelics but have discovered I am largely too old for shenanigans. I really enjoy temperate climates. I live in Portland, Oregon in a heavily bourgeois part of town with a dog, snake and cat.

05:46:01 PM MST, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

I can't recall my years of operation but I was here pretty early, too. It was a time, that's for sure. I do miss the spirit of adventure and community that the early internet held. It was the best time to be online. You know, before capitalism and every monkey with a smartphone wrecked up the joint.

Anyhow, the drama of teenage years has been replaced with the drama of adulthood. I live in Alberta now, remain staunchly uninterested in politics, own a house, car, husband, dog, and have largely retreated from society to become the antisocial shut-in I always longed to be.

05:27:58 PM MST, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

So summoned, I appear. Heyo. Fox Morrigan/TimeFox here. Still alive despite all this time, and able to bust the occasional rhyme.

05:16:03 PM MST, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

P.S. my email is jostho1@gmail.com. Feel free to email me or just look me up online under Carlemot/CarlemotTwoZero/Carlemot20. The only things I don't really pay attention to anymore are Liveournal/Furafinity/Deviant Art/Tumblr. There are some others but your best best would be Twitter or Blue Sky. I do periodically check everything but all the things listed along with Livejournal are the most sporadic way to touch base with me. I will try to remember to check back here periodically and if hope we get this off the ground.

-Carlemot

03:34:52 PM MST, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Hello, Carlemot here hoping all of us can hook up.I was in the Gargoyles Mini-Clan nearly from the very beginning. Its where I met my first friends on the Internet, had my first relationship, where I came out as gay/queer and took part if numerous Internet drama because most of us were all teenagers just trying to find our place in the world.

The people I'm currently hardcore wanting to find our Jade/Abigail, Lysander, White Serpent, Deneb, Faye, Odin and some others I'm missing. Me and Jade/Abby/Abigail were basically best friends online for years and I have lost complete track of them and I want to catch up.

I am currently in contact with only TimeFox/Fox Morrigan and have lost track of anyone else. If anybody has any clue or way we can track each other down (hopefully it will be a chain of one of us connecting with another person and so on and so forth we can all get together and laugh about the old times.

Here's hoping and thank you for creating this. Let me know how I can help and I'm completely onboard.

-Carlemot

03:31:56 PM MST, Tuesday, May 21, 2024

welcome

I'm River and I chatted in GFW from 97 to 03. I also went by Baby Fey and Kristen. I made a lot of good friends in the fandom, but sadly have lost touch with all but a few.

In the intervening years, I've lived most of the past few decades in Tucson AZ. The past few years I've been living out in the sticks with my fiance. In the past year I got married, got custody of our two stepdaughters, and then got a puppy cause I didn't think that was enough change in my life in 6 months. I've been tired ever since LOL.

Over the past few months, I've been wondering why being online just isn't fun any more, and have run into communities like Neocities and other pages going into why the Internet has had the fun sucked out of it. One of the big recommendations is staying off of social media and building your own stuff, which I've really enjoyed getting back into. I've been working on rebuilding the experience and feel of the old chat rooms over the past month and it's been an experience. Researching on the Wayback Machine and tweaking like crazy. Mad props to those who made the original rooms with older technology and much less resources online to work through the issues.

So yeah... hi! Stop by and say hi, let us know who you are, where you chatted, and what you've been up to :)

04:06:46 PM MST, Monday, January 01, 2024