Swansong on the high seas... of a lonely and mysterious swan
Goodbye, cruel Master & Commander community, you say! You're sorry for everything! Except for the parts which were other people's fault, which you will discuss in lingering, portentious and cryptic language!

But... sorry, who are you, and why have you helped yourself to my hankie?

There are only two pages of posts *in* this community, and I'm pretty sure I've read most of them.

It hasn't garnered a single comment, so I guess everybody else is as mystified as me.



From here:

I'm more or less bowing out. Things are just going fruit-shaped, and relations with various members of the community to remain unnamed for the sake of propriety are not going well. Therefore, I consider it my best option just to back out at this point, until things either cool down or I feel well enough about things to return.

Thanks to everyone who was here for making it a good run. It's a shame the community died, because there was some lovely stuff to be found here. I'm posting this because I want you all to know that I really did enjoy my time here, think that the people are generally lovely, and believe that it's a genuine shame things never really recovered. Unfortunately, I feel that a large part of that is my doing, and I apologise. It is clear that I am more a detriment to this community than anything else, and for those of you who can really be active in the fandom, I feel that I am dragging you down. Consider this to be my public apology.

To those whom I have hurt personally, and you know who you are, I hope that you will accept the personal apologies privately issued and be willing to at least not hate me, even if we never speak again (I'm still not certain what I did to make it start). You didn't deserve what I did, but I didn't deserve what you did, either. Blame goes solely to neither one nor the other. I am willing to accept my part. That is all that I will say here, except once again that I regret my actions strongly and want the apology again issued to you before everyone. You deserve that much.

Godspeed, all. It was fun while it lasted.