In downloading my favourites, I'm finding out all the update posts people made to FA about their webcomic no longer direct to a working website. All links are dead and they've been missing online for the past two to three years.
Nothing on the internet is going to last forever. Some used tumblr as an archive, there's nothing there anymore, others say they can be reached out on twitter, their accounts are suspended. I'm still thinking over how when MySpace ate the bucket, we lost a generation of indie music, much like when ConceptArt dot Org went down it took with a cache of digital expression and an invaluable trove of educational material. They used to run weekly tutorial workshops on there.
Every plan I've cancelled has been something I'd wind up regretting in hindsight. I was once the founding member of the city's trans support group, only last year did I find out our Leader at the time died so many years ago and left it to the organization who currently run it, and from what I've seen they run it well, its thriving, and offers more than what we ever did when we had so little and was competing with a rival group who'd chase out people they thought weren't really trans.
But man, the stories Taig would tell me about what it was like growing up in Ireland as a queer youth during the Troubles, and how he came to America to study Sculpture where he didn't see themselves as trans but a very butch dyke, and there is just so much regret I have of not getting to know everyone as thoroughly as I could've. I just wonder where everyone has gone to, and what they're doing now with their lives.
Everyone had their own life story, and there is just so much we've lost already.