A Life Without FanLib Retrospective.

[stewardess]

...because I am already feeling nostalgic.

FanLib was dismal and depressing, but did we let it get us down? Heck, no. Most of the time, I was laughing so hard I lost beverages. Some of my favorite memories:

1. The Mimbo Brothers (aka Chris and David Williams, FanLib founders) get their asses kicked by a moderator at lotrfanfiction, and learn

Comments

[angiepen]

My TOS shredding should be 1.5 up there. And I got a spam-flame from Chris too; he deleted it but I put it back for him. (We should've had T-shirts made. :) )

Angie

[stewardess]

Selecting the definitive TOS shredding posed a problem, because there were four or five within a couple of days of each other. How to pick one without showing favoritism?

[angiepen]

Ahh, I never heard about any others. Maybe link all of us? Or just a mention of Bunch-O-People Handling TOS With Tongs? [shrug] However it comes out, it was a significant event, I think.

Angie

[stewardess]

Very significant, but it didn't lead to chuckling. It was scary as hell. Remember how almost every bit of lotr fanfiction at FanLib was yanked overnight by panicky authors?

[angiepen]

Yep. Made the hours buried in that particular morass worthwhile. :D

Angie