riding out tonight to case the promised land

[musesfool]

Wow, so ten years ago Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered. I came in right at the beginning, but didn't realize it was the first episode for some reason. A lot of who I am as a fangirl I owe to BtVS fandom - atbvs to be exact. The foundations of my fannish behavior were laid by alt.tv.homicide, but I was never very active there, whereas I was quite

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[iamstealthyone]

Wow, so ten years ago Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered.

I ... feel old.

Ten years ago? Really?

*shakes head*

Good times. :)

[musesfool]

Seriously.

What's killing me is that a bunch of people on my flist are posting about it, and they're all like, "I was in middle school" or "I was a sophomore, just like Buffy," and I'm like, jesus, I was 26-going-on-27.

*is old*

[iamstealthyone]

What's killing me is that a bunch of people on my flist are posting about it, and they're all like, "I was in middle school" or "I was a sophomore, just like Buffy," and I'm like, jesus, I was 26-going-on-27.

I was 25. *g* So I guess we're old together. :)

[musesfool]

Heh. We can shake our fists and tell these kids to get offa our lawns!

[iamstealthyone]

And to turn down their loud music. *g*

[musesfool]

We'll tell them how, back in the day, we had to walk ten miles in the snow, uphill - both ways! - to get our fic!

[iamstealthyone]

*g* And how people could only read fanfic in zines. And how people could only write fanfic either by hand or using devices called "typewriters."

[musesfool]

Bwahahahaha!

Though technically I didn't get into fandom until the internet, but yes. *g*

[iamstealthyone]

technically I didn't get into fandom until the internet, but yes. *g*

I didn't, either ... but I did use a typewriter once upon a time. :) Much prefer computers. *snuggles Mac*

[musesfool]

Oh yeah, I did all my high school papers on a typewriter. *shudders*

Thank god, we got a computer when I started college. That was still fraught (the dot matrix printer would always jam at 4am the night before a paper was due! the sudden failure of a floppy diskette with the bibliography on it!), but in a different way. *g*

[iamstealthyone]

the dot matrix printer would always jam at 4am the night before a paper was due! the sudden failure of a floppy diskette with the bibliography on it!)

Don't you just love when technology makes your life harder as it makes it easier?

[musesfool]

It's not our friend! That's what nobody believes! This whole "Making life easier" thing is just to get us dependent so that when it turns on us, we're completely helpless!

Or possibly I watched Terminator too much as a teenager. *g*

[iamstealthyone]

LOL!