snowflake 2

[alexseanchai]

snowflake_challenge prompt 2:

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

So it turns out the earliest Wayback Machine got my Geocities site was 2004.

…This does not serve to answer the question of when my Geocities site went up. Ballpark based on the vintage-2004 Sailormoon Millennia site updates, it was 2002? But also I already knew it was somewhere in the 2002 vicinity? I knew I was at this at thirteen, is what I'm getting at. What I want to know is, how much earlier.

Anyway apparently I function best in particular corners of megafandoms:

• Sailor Moon: Sailormoon Millennia
• Harry Potter: Dangerverse
• Supernatural: spn_bitesized
• Miraculous Ladybug: this particular Discord mostly

And I bet the reason I didn't get intensely into Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in the same way is at least partly because I never found the right corner of the fandom.

Also, Yuletide-type exchangefic fandom is awesome.

and no, I will not make it easy for y'all to find anything of mine on the internet that is older than my AO3 account. do your own detective work. or don't. kind of rather you don't. 😸

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

Oh, what's "Dangerverse" in Harry Potter?

[alexseanchai]

here's my rec on fancake!

[tjs_whatnot]

Wow. How have I lived in HP fandom for over a decade now and never heard of this?!?

Clearly, I needed better friends. 😃

Definitely bookmarking for when I again have the urge to read in that fandom. ❤

[alexseanchai]

*shrug*

though I should note azurelunatic started reading it recently (after my fancake post) because of my rec, and then started tweeting all "this is really monoam-cisheteronormative" and "wow that's racist" and I kinda went "oh, yeah, guess there's a reason I haven't reread it in a few years" so there's that

(like I really love the version in my head but I think the version in my head edited some bits out)

[mierke]

Thanks for linking! I'd also never heard of it and am really curious now.

[alexseanchai]

😸

though I should note azurelunatic started reading it recently (after my fancake post) because of my rec, and then started tweeting all "this is really monoam-cisheteronormative" and "wow that's racist" and I kinda went "oh, yeah, guess there's a reason I haven't reread it in a few years" so there's that

(like I really love the version in my head but I think the version in my head edited some bits out)

[mierke]

Oh, yeah, I know how that works! xD Thanks for the warning!

[buggyfiction]

Ohh geocities.... good times, good times! Haha.

[alexseanchai]

eighteen point Times New Roman, centered, with the site-under-construction bit in red with exclamation points on both sides

at least thirteen-year-old me had better sense than to figure out tiled background images or flashy shit

[buggyfiction]

Mine had a sexy frame, which is what mostly showed when I did a wayback search LOL. The person who I RPed with taught me how to make a frame in html.

[alexseanchai]

eep

[buggyfiction]

Yep LOL. Actually, I found a handwritten HARD copy of my old geocities site just the other day with the names of the sites and where they're located and stuff... I should have kept it instead of putting it through the shredder haha

[alexseanchai]

—whoops