Monkey Island community
Jul. 16th, 2025 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Oh, uh, did I mention I made a community for
monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010.
Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate as
weareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.
eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):

There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate as
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):

There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
fic: The Night After (Monkey Island, G)
Jul. 6th, 2025 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: The Night After
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Guybrush, OCs
Rating: General
Words: 2685
Summary: Set immediately after the end of The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush learns that the story of his exploits just might be an interesting tale to tell.
Notes: From this prompt: Your character is in a cafe and overhears a conversation. How does it make them feel? Does it change the way they think about something? Write that scene. I think this kinda went out of bounds from that? And certainly it didn't take me a day to write this as a warmup in the way it's intended, lol. Try more like several weeks. But whatever.
The Night After
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Guybrush, OCs
Rating: General
Words: 2685
Summary: Set immediately after the end of The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush learns that the story of his exploits just might be an interesting tale to tell.
Notes: From this prompt: Your character is in a cafe and overhears a conversation. How does it make them feel? Does it change the way they think about something? Write that scene. I think this kinda went out of bounds from that? And certainly it didn't take me a day to write this as a warmup in the way it's intended, lol. Try more like several weeks. But whatever.
The Night After