Why is This place So important To You and Why Do You Keep coming Back ?

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Spideyman

Uber Member
Jul 10, 2006
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Just north of Duma Key
This is family- a second home. Sharing, caring, laughing, crying (good cries and sad), agreeing and disagreeing, and a learning place too. The true meaning of Ka-Tet-- one made of many. A place to discuss SK and his works, a place to share our lives. A place to come and go, never feeling that you have to be here, yet feeling you must. A hollering home.
I do not consider this place social media like FB or Twitter. It's a homeplace. Lasting friendships that never would have been had it not been for this place.
 

Rrty

Well-Known Member
Jun 4, 2007
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Cyrus, I think about that a lot. It is a community that has evolved over time in mostly polite fashion that has a family feel to it and has broadened its model from a dedicated fan-based one to one that orbits around a whole portfolio of topics. Even the way people communicate with each other intrigues me; as an example, I cannot be the only one who has noticed that members here sometimes talk like Stephen King characters. They almost respond in funny ways as a King character might. Really, a stunning example of social media at its best.
 

Maddie

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Jul 10, 2006
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that dollhouse at the end of the street
Once upon a time, there was a dark & lovely community of readers & writers brought together for the Love of their favorite horror author. It was for the Love of Him & His works that each of them had seperately found their way there. That and a Genuine warmth for each other from most within its walls would keep them there, & coming back, Forever and ever and ever.
 

not_nadine

Comfortably Roont
Nov 19, 2011
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Behind you
This is family- a second home. Sharing, caring, laughing, crying (good cries and sad), agreeing and disagreeing, and a learning place too. The true meaning of Ka-Tet-- one made of many. A place to discuss SK and his works, a place to share our lives. A place to come and go, never feeling that you have to be here, yet feeling you must. A hollering home.
I do not consider this place social media like FB or Twitter. It's a homeplace. Lasting friendships that never would have been had it not been for this place.

Perfect. Where is Skimommy's blue ribbon?
That's it there.
((Spidey))
 

muskrat

Dis-Member
Nov 8, 2010
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Under your bed
I came for the King...I stay for the friends I've made.

Been postin' since 2010, and it's the only form of social media I can stomach. I don't do bookface, I don't twit, er, twat, er...Twitter, whatever. And in my REAL LIFE there are so few people with whom I can discuss the various weird things I'm into. Most folks I deal with look upon books with scorn, or view black and white movies as one does a cat turd in their corn flakes. I love the people here. Most of em 'get' me, and the ones that don't are intrigued...and intriguing.

All except GNTL, though. Me and him are due for a Texas chainsaw steel cage match this fall on pay per view. YOU HEAR ME, BIGGUN? IM'A PUT A HURTIN ON YER BEHEMOTH BEHIND, OLD MAN! THAT BELT IS MINE!!!
 

mjs9153

Peripherally known member..
Nov 21, 2014
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I came for the King...I stay for the friends I've made.

Been postin' since 2010, and it's the only form of social media I can stomach. I don't do bookface, I don't twit, er, twat, er...Twitter, whatever. And in my REAL LIFE there are so few people with whom I can discuss the various weird things I'm into. Most folks I deal with look upon books with scorn, or view black and white movies as one does a cat turd in their corn flakes. I love the people here. Most of em 'get' me, and the ones that don't are intrigued...and intriguing.

All except GNTL, though. Me and him are due for a Texas chainsaw steel cage match this fall on pay per view. YOU HEAR ME, BIGGUN? IM'A PUT A HURTIN ON YER BEHEMOTH BEHIND, OLD MAN! THAT BELT IS MINE!!!
 

not_nadine

Comfortably Roont
Nov 19, 2011
29,655
139,785
Behind you
We had had marriages taken place on this site because of Stephen King. Where's Aggie?

We have had had deaths. yes. John. Sharon. and our Nate. Nate.

I've said this before, I joined right in the middle of John's passing. The outpouring of emotions from everyone here at that time.
I knew I had a homeplace.

I wish the older boards will still available to read.