A fun little interview, and tons of lovely pics to choose from! Started off the year great you guys! Keep it up! X3

Thank you. ^_^ BIG hats off to CAThulu for this one as she did most of the link/tagging work. Yumi was a great interview. ^_^

Did not expect something as complete as this. It was a nice surprise!

*chuckles* I didn't expect something this "complete" when I started the whole thing, but I'm glad it ended up this way. :) Hope you enjoy them.

I very much do enjoy it!
I think this is what a journal should be! (as in the journal thingy, not actually forcing you to have this every day <.<)
really well done! :P

Thank you! They go all the way back to October of 2014 (in my FA journals), though there has been a lot of evolution of it over those years. The Artist and Character highlights were a bit more simple and evolved into their interview-style from around mid 2015 onward, and it started using Google Docs to present a single unified format in April of 2016. Late 2017 saw ImpXimon and VampireKitty both contribute some great graphics design ideas to make it look a little nicer as well. I'm sure 2019 will continue with more stuff eventually being tweaked. :)

YAY, then! ^w^
surely can't wait to have more of this!
and I will go check the older ones too, then! :P

Go Yumi! Go Yumi! Go YumI!

Woo - Yumi fan section!

sure!
I must doing this, or i endet up under a paw :P

Eeee! Somebody pulled up Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the seeing of which (up at the Eglinton Theatre, here in Toronto on Eglinton West), after three hours of wait in 1991-era December Winter cold outside, was my first real super-ossum Fan Experience! Even the lineup outside was like a convention Consuite or Artist's Alley; multiple people offered and did buy coffee and hot chocolate as we waited. I regret that I don't remember ever meeting them again after the showing (it was my two brothers and I who went in our group), although my memory prior to late 1994, for medical reasons, is often terribly poor.

I remember, after the cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey captained by Christopher Plummer's Chang, was taken out by Bones & Spock's modified 'tailpipe detector' torpedoes, with an assist from Captain Sulu's Excelsior in high orbit of Khitomer, and the final 'signatures' came across the screen, my brothers sitting on either side of me, both turned to me, and my oldest brother, Robert said to me: 'The torch passed in posterity from we who watched Kirk begin his Trek, is to yours and your generation's kinsmen's future now, Garth. And please: don't forget Doctor Who in the meantime!' They were the ones who plopped me in front of Tom Baker and John Pertwee when I was a flea, watching PBS Channel 17 from Buffalo across Lake Ontario to Toronto, along with reruns of Star Trek: The Original Series on CBC Channel 5 on Saturdays. I knew what they meant. :)

So here we are, 27 years down the road (by the first week of December 2018). I think we've done pretty well, don't you think? ^_^

-2Paw.

That's a pretty cool memory. :) I was living in Barrie, ON at the time, and saw it in the theatre there. By that point in time, Star Trek TNG was on, and people enjoyed it, so I think everyone by that point knew that the old story line would have to come to an end, and Star Trek V was.... uh... not that. During the end when their signatures started to appear, I remember quite a few teary-eyes in the theatre for sure.

Have we done well in the 27 years since? Ehhh... not to me. As I said in my description, Star Trek can be most easily divided into the Roddenberry and Post-Roddenberry eras. Star Trek TOS, the first 6 movies along with Star Trek TNG were all Roddenberry-era productions. While he passed away before the end of Star Trek TNG, he had already laid out how it was to go, where and why. To me... this is was the only real Star Trek.

In the Post-Roddenberry era, Star Trek began to get darker and more "grey". It wasn't portrayed as well as the Utopian future it was meant to be for mankind. Deep Space Nine started it, and it just worsened from there with the Next-Gen movies. The reboot movie from 2009 pretty much proved that there is nothing left o the old Trek other than the names and "look" of the world. Gone is everything that Roddenberry wanted to portray. Gone are the intelligently designed and laid-out ships (designed by engineers in the originals). I've tried to watch all Star Trek stuff since the end of TNG, but I just don't enjoy it anymore, and find that it gets progressively worse as time goes on - like how Discovery is just a horrid joke.

The only good Star Trek I've seen is Star Trek Continues, which was a fan-based recreation that adheres to the principles of the Roddenberry era Star Trek. It's extremely well done, and watching those is like watching the original Star Trek where there are morals to the stories, and more importantly, a sense of "hope" for our future.

During the end when their signatures started to appear, I remember quite a few teary-eyes in the theatre for sure.

My brothers and I were amongst the same ranks when those signatures appeared at the end of our showing of Star Trek VI, and believe me, it takes a great deal to make either of my brothers weep openly. The only other times I clearly remember my oldest brother (the aforementioned Robert) crying thus was first, when his first old lady died (Tenga Malan, 'Midnight', his first old black demon of a lady cat, who lived to be more than 20 years old), and when our Da died in 2006. I knew, at least in retrospect, that the showing of Star Trek VI that night, was similarly a sense of regret, but also of closure. Endings are beginnings in their own way, I think, and I believe deeply his words to me then that night were chosen with care and specific meaning to me. :)

Heh! I guess I was thinking '27 Years Of My Journey As And Amongst Fans' rather than how Star Trek has changed and mutated over the last 25 years, sorry. :)

-2Paw.

Thanks for the features, I'm glad you enjoyed them enough to link them. ♥

My favorite for this post was Astraltus's feature - it's a nice pose at an unusual angle that displays the pattern along the back/shoulder fur, which probably isn't often seen.

LOVE your work, you know that.

Yeah, I liked that one a lot too for the same reasons - nice angle, gorgeous back detailing which is a nice tip of the hat to the Mexican wolf species that Danny is based on.