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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.

Date: 2004-08-17 10:25 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (1st Battalion Transvestite Paratroopers!)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Oh man, this is totally bringing back memories of my glory days in the HP fandom, before it went really batshit crazy. You've got me going through my ff.n profile and all the Favorite Stories/Authors entries. Thing1 and the WolfieTwins, wow -- they were good stuff. And Iniga. It makes me wonder what happened to all of them.

Date: 2004-08-20 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Oooh, ff.net, I should go back and check that out...

Date: 2004-08-17 11:03 pm (UTC)
msilverstar: (they say)
From: [personal profile] msilverstar
I wish I'd been there for the early stuff, as it is, you're one of my early favorites.

Date: 2004-08-20 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
*hugs*

By the way, I changed your name to your LJ username like you asked, although I still need to fix it on my site.

Date: 2004-08-17 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rodneyscat.livejournal.com
Ah! I just checked, because I knew Cimorene was the first person I ever wrote 'fanmail' and that was exactly 2 years ago today! August 17th 2002. Man...

Then I found out I was wrong... I found an email that was even earlier, July 9th 2002. An email to Uluviel for her 'Fire and Ice'.

I think my introduction to RPS was through [livejournal.com profile] kevswitchau and [livejournal.com profile] kinkyhobbit. Oh, and [livejournal.com profile] juweldom. And yeah, [livejournal.com profile] msallegro.

The first FPS to really get to me was [livejournal.com profile] daisy_gamgee's THoU. I found an email to her about it from December 2002.

I love my email archive: I found a couple of raving emails to you from March 2003. I knew you as OneRingDoodle at the LOTR_RPS yahoo group and had just found your LJ and site.

I must say that most fics I loved when I joined this fandom I still love and reread. And a lot of the writers from back then I still know, although not all of them still write in this fandom or write at all.

A lot of writers who are now my favorites I've found later.

Date: 2004-08-20 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] uluviel's Fire and Ice! Yes! That used to be one of my favorites!

Date: 2004-08-18 10:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shanalle.livejournal.com
hmm. the first fic i read in the entire fandom was sabotage/subversion, which simultaneously made me very horny and very addicted to dom/billy. i readreadread whatever i could get my hands on, mainly at the time being mcee, gabby, calico, buffet. lurked, then joined things, then in early 2003, started writing. *wipes tear* meeeeeemorieeeees. most of my early favorite fics are still rec'd on my website (including some of yours :))

i am very pleased my challenged caused a trip down memory lane ♥

Date: 2004-08-20 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Mmmm, Sabotage/Subversion....excellent stuff, that.

Now let's see if your challenge actually causes a fic! I'm at least thinking about it, that's a good start, right?

Date: 2004-08-19 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] splonders.livejournal.com
...Read your reminiscences with interest,and am always looking for recs.Two of the authors you quote sound interesting,namely Demelza and Buffett;are there still links to these stories?As a new LJ person,got to catch the older stuff before it gets deleted.Thanks!

Date: 2004-08-20 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Buffett's fics are up at http://very.net/~buffett (I think); I can't find Demelza's fics anymore, which makes me sad.

Date: 2004-08-20 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] splonders.livejournal.com
...Many thanks!Link o.k.Off to read them now.

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