wah wah fandom nostalgia
Aug. 17th, 2004 11:49 pm
So my Two Lines lyrics are kinda sappy and nostalgic, and they put me into a late-night sappy nostalgic mood, so blame them. Yeah.
Remember when the Lotrips fandom was still young and revolved around mailing lists and the Closer Than Brothers archive? Those were good days. Not that the fic was better than the fic is now, but it was all so DIFFERENT. It was all New Zealand fics, and maybe the FotR premiere, and no one knew what TTT and RotK were gonna be like so when we wrote about filming those scenes we used the dialogue out of the books, or just stuck to FotR, and there were new pics every fucking day of the boys doing very very gay things together, and there was much squeeing, and digging for spoilers, and Domlijah wasn't tinhatty yet, and Orlijah was the big thing because of that massive Orlijah hug at the FotR premiere.
I remember that Buffett's Surfing series got me hooked on RPS, and wax_jism's Bloomwood archive was THE place to find good Orlijah, and Calico's Sabotage was the hottest smutfest anyone could ever even imagine, and Demelza's liebesdachs series was the funniest and cutest Dom/Billy ever, and MsAllegro was just another RPS writer who maintained a pretty good pic website. I remember trying to emulate the writers who were always just a few fics ahead of me, the ones who became active in fandom just a few months before me, who weren't greats yet but were obviously going to be. I remember marvelling over writers like Mcee and Cimorene, and trying desperately to follow in the incredibly prolific and talented heels of Gabby Hope, and trying desperately to carve some sort of niche for myself in the Domlijah corner of the fandom.
So, for old time's sake, what were your favorite fics/writers of the fandom when you first joined it? Which stories do you still remember? Which authors do you still occasionally wonder, hey, they were awesome, what ever happened to them? Just...share. 'Cause a lot of us seem to be moving on, and I want to remember what brought us together in the first place.
Remember when the Lotrips fandom was still young and revolved around mailing lists and the Closer Than Brothers archive? Those were good days. Not that the fic was better than the fic is now, but it was all so DIFFERENT. It was all New Zealand fics, and maybe the FotR premiere, and no one knew what TTT and RotK were gonna be like so when we wrote about filming those scenes we used the dialogue out of the books, or just stuck to FotR, and there were new pics every fucking day of the boys doing very very gay things together, and there was much squeeing, and digging for spoilers, and Domlijah wasn't tinhatty yet, and Orlijah was the big thing because of that massive Orlijah hug at the FotR premiere.
I remember that Buffett's Surfing series got me hooked on RPS, and wax_jism's Bloomwood archive was THE place to find good Orlijah, and Calico's Sabotage was the hottest smutfest anyone could ever even imagine, and Demelza's liebesdachs series was the funniest and cutest Dom/Billy ever, and MsAllegro was just another RPS writer who maintained a pretty good pic website. I remember trying to emulate the writers who were always just a few fics ahead of me, the ones who became active in fandom just a few months before me, who weren't greats yet but were obviously going to be. I remember marvelling over writers like Mcee and Cimorene, and trying desperately to follow in the incredibly prolific and talented heels of Gabby Hope, and trying desperately to carve some sort of niche for myself in the Domlijah corner of the fandom.
So, for old time's sake, what were your favorite fics/writers of the fandom when you first joined it? Which stories do you still remember? Which authors do you still occasionally wonder, hey, they were awesome, what ever happened to them? Just...share. 'Cause a lot of us seem to be moving on, and I want to remember what brought us together in the first place.
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