Hello, everyone.
It's been a long time. My participation here slowed down and then came to a screeching halt during my master's program. I kept having good intentions about coming back here especially since I was one of the founders, but I suppose that even when I did have time, guilt kept me away. I'm now more than halfway through a Ph.D program - hopefully in a little more than a year, I'll be Dr. Aquarius.
I think of many of you often, and I would like to stay connected. I don't know if our mail domain will continue to work after this, but for now, if you want to stay connected, please reach out to me at
Aquarius@thedelphicexpanse.com, and I'll give you my real-life contact details.
We had a lot of good talks here, a lot of support, and honestly, I am so, SO grateful to Enterprise for bringing me the decade-long friendship Honeybee and I have had and all of you who became my real-life friends as well.
As Jespah said, it does seem that Facebook groups have swallowed up fandom...and that makes me sad, because just the other day, I was lamenting the lack of thoughtful, insightful discussion - like what we always had here - and how that's been replaced by repetition, thoughtlessness, and just plain cruelty - the latter of which we created this place in order to escape. This is particularly true now that, for some fans, Star Trek: Discovery has replaced Enterprise as the "redheaded stepchild" of the fandom - the divisive vitriol in the Facebook groups, even the ones that purport to be positive, makes me long for a place like this where I can talk about it and people know how to behave.
Just know that I love you all and I'm proud of what we built here, and I'm glad it'll still be here for us to revisit, even if we can't add to the conversation. Thank you all for being such a big part of my life for all those years. I was going through some awful personal stuff when I found the Enterprise and Trip/T'Pol fandom, and this place was instrumental in helping me to get on a good path where I'm happy and can say that I'm living up to my potential.
Keep in touch.
-Aq
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