full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009
*rocking back and forth on the porch, staring into the distance*
Or the webrings, and the Anne Rice purges…
…the disclaimers…
The Anne Rice stuff was even before that, I think. I started posting Arashikage in 2009. Hero was in 2007 and 2008 – I used to note how many hits it had to figure out how many more there was when I checked again (after an update) because it didn’t break the stats down by day back then.
True. The Anne Rice purges were, oh, around, 1997-2000?
God I remember the sassy ‘Posting this against tah RUUULLLEESSS’ not-disclaimers back when yaoi and yuri was still against the content rules of FF *AND* when you could give each individual chapter a content rating; so a mostly teen fic could randomly have a Mature chapter that was locked if you weren’t logged in and verified.
Oh, lord.
Songfics.
*grabs bottle of vodka
*snaps off top
@systlin bottoms up, cause do you also remember the page long interactive openings between the writer(s), their favorite characters and often their OC’s, complete with similar endings?
Fuck, I think several of my own early fics still have them.
*shares vodka
Oh, lord.
*slugs from bottle, wipes mouth*
Shit, I think I still have some absolutely awful Lord of the Rings fic with those author’s notes on a flash drive somewhere.
As well as the bits where you do more author’s notes. You know, where you arguing with you own OC’s for….???? Just midway through a chapter? Like this?
*AUTHOR’S NOTE*
HEE! Things are finally getting good! Get ready for some action coming up in…
…*OC #1 appears* Stop boring us and get on with it!
…HMPTH rude! OC you play nice!
…*OC #2* Yeah! Just let her get on with the story! Don’t be rude 😦
…Thank you OC #2. Welp, back to the story!
I don’t know it was just the thing back then.
We were all learning…
But it was… fun. I remembering it being fun and somehow along the way it made me ashamed that i was ever like that.
It wasn’t great writing. It wasn’t meant to be. We were all just having fun.
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