I'm pretty sure that when people talk about "blasts from the past," this isn't what they mean
HOLY SHIT
WE WERE STARTING TO FEEL SO OLD (in Internet years, I guess-- they're like dog years) BECAUSE WE THOUGHT NO ONE ELSE REMEMBERED THIS FIC
(well, except the people who were WTFing over it with us back then. but still, to come across it on Tumblr of all places, where I think the mean age is like ten years younger than our current body age.)
...weirdly enough, with most of the fics we see people WTFing over these days, we're pretty sure that a lot of them are troll fics (we've had actual near-arguments over whether "My Immortal" was a troll fic-- we said yes, other people said no). But we seriously never figured out if the writer of those fics was a troll. Because they'd write stuff like that and... then stuff that looked actually honest and sincere, however weird the concepts of it.
Oh 90s, where you actually had to go digging to find really, really bad fic. It's kind of so easy to find now that it's actually not that interesting to come across any more, unless it's got something in it that's really, really out-there.
WE WERE STARTING TO FEEL SO OLD (in Internet years, I guess-- they're like dog years) BECAUSE WE THOUGHT NO ONE ELSE REMEMBERED THIS FIC
(well, except the people who were WTFing over it with us back then. but still, to come across it on Tumblr of all places, where I think the mean age is like ten years younger than our current body age.)
...weirdly enough, with most of the fics we see people WTFing over these days, we're pretty sure that a lot of them are troll fics (we've had actual near-arguments over whether "My Immortal" was a troll fic-- we said yes, other people said no). But we seriously never figured out if the writer of those fics was a troll. Because they'd write stuff like that and... then stuff that looked actually honest and sincere, however weird the concepts of it.
Oh 90s, where you actually had to go digging to find really, really bad fic. It's kind of so easy to find now that it's actually not that interesting to come across any more, unless it's got something in it that's really, really out-there.