My First Fandom
I don't know what got me thinking about it, but I've spent the past two hours digging around on the internets for anything I can find about Scullyfic. I was surprised to find emuse still existing in the world, and even more surprised to find pictures from the Spring Training I attended. I remember only in vague flashes -- mostly I remember that I was internally flipping out all weekend because I had lied to my mother about where in MO I was going and why (my cover story: going with a friend to visit Wash U in STL.). I see the people in pictures and am intensely curious about what has happened to them in the intervening six or seven years since I stopped reading.
My computer from those years simply will. not. start. -- there's some sort of boot error, even with the system CD in the drive -- and it makes me sad, because I had POP email all through college and thus have at least two years of Scullyfic on my computer that I would dearly love to read now. I occasionally see names of people from the list in comments of someone else's entries (and lonejaguar, heathers, and sophia_helix on my own f'list, obvs), but at this point it's been so long since the names changed (between mailing list and lj username) that it's simply recognition that I once knew the person -- I can't remember who someone "really" was or what if anything they wrote or did or anything.
I tried to log on to the emuse site, using every oldoldold email address I could think of, but no luck. I wish they were letters I had stashed in a shoebox so I could pull them out tonight and read them and laugh fondly at (a) what fic was like back then; and (b) how fandom has not changed one iota.
Anyway. Former scullyficcers out there on the internets, thank you -- it was a wonderful ride, and I hope our paths cross again someday.
My computer from those years simply will. not. start. -- there's some sort of boot error, even with the system CD in the drive -- and it makes me sad, because I had POP email all through college and thus have at least two years of Scullyfic on my computer that I would dearly love to read now. I occasionally see names of people from the list in comments of someone else's entries (and lonejaguar, heathers, and sophia_helix on my own f'list, obvs), but at this point it's been so long since the names changed (between mailing list and lj username) that it's simply recognition that I once knew the person -- I can't remember who someone "really" was or what if anything they wrote or did or anything.
I tried to log on to the emuse site, using every oldoldold email address I could think of, but no luck. I wish they were letters I had stashed in a shoebox so I could pull them out tonight and read them and laugh fondly at (a) what fic was like back then; and (b) how fandom has not changed one iota.
Anyway. Former scullyficcers out there on the internets, thank you -- it was a wonderful ride, and I hope our paths cross again someday.