Gacked from aomeFirst TV show I had self-insertion fantasies about ( Read more... )

When JKR said in a Radio City Music Hall reading/event that Dumbledore was gayOn twitter today, a friend of mine asked about how society had changed since then, and I started thinking about how fandom had changed since then - or actually, since 2000/2001 ( Read more... )

At 11:10 AM on February 11, 2002, I posted on LJ for the first time. I'd used LJ for the fictionalley account a few times in the six months before that date, and had been reading a few friends' LJs (including flourish, who gave me my code, but it was on this day that I finally started using LJ for myself ( Read more... )

You know, Yahoo searches are kind of interesting. I went back onto an old Yahoogroup to check something, and found that Miss Partly Bouncy, who I will not link to because she's been using clear gifs aka web beacons to track visitors to her LJ and profile page, had the following at the bottom of her posts to various mailing lists in April of 2001, ( Read more... )

Dear partly_bouncyI was recently pointed to your post of earlier today where you state that I asked you to take down the "article" on your "wiki" about me ( Read more... )

I'm on a plane now, about halfway between New York City and Miami, a few thousand feet in the air, glancing out the window in hopes of seeing a man on a flying motorcycle ( Read more... )

With all this talk about the impending Wonder that Is Book Five, I wanted to take a peek back at the pre-book-four hype (actually, I was looking for the Doomspell Tournament fic where Davey Gudgeon is they DaDA teacher, so if anyone has a link...) and I found these interesting pages (via Google's archive):

Rumors about Book Four

Ah, rumors of ( Read more... )

Inspired by aome, frances_potter, alexmalfoy and jediginny, as well as my own prediliction for posting things from the far far past like this, I just set up a community - fandom_history. It's an open community for people to post old posts, their fandom history, reviews that are at least six months old, etc. Even old chat transcripts, as long as all the participants have given permission or are made ( Read more... )