I'm a Phoenix. I'm long-lived and golden, and I self-immolate, only to rise again from the ashes, brand new and shiny, containing all that I was before. I've noticed this behavior in my three major online fandoms: Highlander flamed out (magnificently) into Jossverse which fell from the sky like a meteor into Farscape which burned like a gigantic pinwheel sparkler into Supernatural, with its flames flickering and gaining strength and its wings spreading, brilliant in the sun.

Or? I sit here and brood.