Thread:SiamesetheKitty/@comment-38989981-20190505020343

Hello,

I've been thinking about writing this message since about mid-October, but I didn't entirely know how to go about it. Frankly, I'm not sure if you're ever going to read this; it's unnerving, writing and sending a message without knowing who'll read it, or if anyone will read it at all. This is the first and likely the last post I will make on this subject, or even on this wiki in general. I have not created any fan or original characters to be posted here; I didn't have an account until about 20 minutes ago, until I realized that I had to make one to post here at all.

I discovered this wiki completely by chance a little under a year ago; I read at least a third of the pages in a single afternoon. Although many of the articles were thorougly, spectacularly mediocre, I did read some that have stuck with me: N. A. O. M. I., Erika Almacia Fernandiel, The Nameless Antithesis to Evidential Existentiality, EQUINOX and SOLSTICE. The ones that stuck with me most of all, however, were those from your Abyss of Dreams: Apeiros, Plae Erwun, the Windmill Keeper.

I understand your decision to delete your articles. Ultimately, they are yours to delete. However, I also disagree with that decision completely and totally. It's true that your writing was, from the standpoint of raw literary craft, imperfect. However, that does not invalidate the fairly impressive accomplishment that you made and apparently failed to recognize.

The best characters in literature as a whole are defined enough in terms of their characteristics to be universally applicable and comprehensible. All characters exist in the minds of their authors; the best characters continue to live and last in the minds of their readers. Why is it that Dracula has outlasted Bram Stoker, that Sherlock Holmes has outlived Conan Doyle, that Superman has continued to operate long after the days of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel?

What I'm trying to say is this-- that crucial fundamentality was there in your characters. Never mind the fact that your writing was a little stilted, never mind the fact that Apeiros's page image was Pokémon fanart-- you came this wiki to make great characters and you did. Even if they weren't objectively, irrefutably "good," I can confidently say they were captivating and engaging and memorable, and that makes them great in my book. For that reason, I implore you to un-delete the Abyss of Dreams. If you're not comfortable doing that, I ask you to keep writing-- to bring Plae Erwun and Sarah Vishkar and the Windmill Keeper and Apeiros and the Sirinas and the Neceam and Georgie Small and the Staff of Marigolds and characters yet unmade and weapons yet unhewn and places yet unexplored to the page in some way, shape, or form.

Thank you for your time,

Thompson H. Thompson. 