B5 fandom definitely has its lulls between flurries of activity! The rewatch comm wasn't on Dreamwidth, it was Mark Watches. But as a disclaimer I have some mixed feelings about Mark's content in general, there were some controversies and drama when he was reading Discworld, among other issues.
My memories aren't that awful, as far as cults go it wasn't a violent place or anything. I was pretty young when we quit and even that wasn't really dramatic, my parents just kind of started coming out of the fog. Before that it was just the normal life I was used to, and it's only in hindsight and with the benefit of my exposure to the outside world that I compare my old "normal" to most everyone else's normal and realize how weird my baseline was. I'm 30 now, and we left when I was about 9 or 10, if I remember correctly, so I've had a lot of time to unlearn things.
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My memories aren't that awful, as far as cults go it wasn't a violent place or anything. I was pretty young when we quit and even that wasn't really dramatic, my parents just kind of started coming out of the fog. Before that it was just the normal life I was used to, and it's only in hindsight and with the benefit of my exposure to the outside world that I compare my old "normal" to most everyone else's normal and realize how weird my baseline was. I'm 30 now, and we left when I was about 9 or 10, if I remember correctly, so I've had a lot of time to unlearn things.