blast from the past, courtesy of the archive of the future

[arduinna]

I was poking around the AO3 tonight, and stumbled across one of my favorite fanworks from the early '00s:

Deep Fanfic Thoughts, by Jack Handey, which I now know was written by Vali (... okay, it is totally cool that you can make a link like that to an AO3 user account!); back in the day, IIRC, it was posted anonymously.

It was written in 2001, and anyone who was in mailing list fandom, particularly on slash lists, will recognize pretty much everything there. Heeee.

It vanished off the net somewhere around 2005, as near as I can tell; I haven't been able to find anything but references to it for several years, and always regretted not saving a copy for myself. Yay for the AO3!

(Me, I still wish that more planets had fallen under the ruthless domination of Prospect-L, but then I'm biased. *g*)

Comments

[dorinda]

Thanks for that! For some odd reason, I'd never seen it before, and now it's obvious that my life was lacking something. Ahhh, the flashbacks!

[arduinna]

Isn't it great? It's just this perfect snapshot of fandom of the day; it never fails to make me happy. ♥

[merryish]

\o/

How did you make that link!

[arduinna]

IS THAT NOT COOL? I spotted it today doing random surfing on DW; I cannot for the life of me remember who explained it, but you write someone's name like this:

[user name=merry site=archiveofourown.org], and voila! you get merry (it automatically lower-cases the name, even if you capitalize it in the code). So very cool.

[cesperanza]

EEEEEE of joy!!

[arduinna]

\o/

[marycrawford]

Bwaha, dude, I remember this! No idea where I first read it, though.

I can picture in my mind a list where everyone engages in fascinating, incisive debates on important ideas, where creativity is nurtured and all opinions are equally respected. And I can picture trolling that list into oblivion, because they'd never see it coming.

*snorfle*

[arduinna]

It was passed around by fannish osmosis back in the day, if I'm remembering right; I heard about it through Sentinel fandom, but it would have made the rounds all over. It really is one of my favorite fanworks ever. *g* <3