Revisiting Old Friends (And Old Fandoms)

I regularly talk about how I started building websites to just have my own little place on the Internet, and, for a while, that was all I did. I had links to things, things were good. But then I got more into online fandom. And when you're in online fandom, and you have a tendency to write things, eventually you turn to fanfiction. It happens, and there's been some great studies into it. I mean, hell, just look at all the awesome stuff Sacha Judd talks about (have you subscribed to her newsletter? You really should. You really really should). And, for a huge chunk of the late 1990s and 2000s, that was my thing. I could make websites. I liked fanfiction. So I built archives. Lots of archives. Woo boy, the archives. There wasn't just my fanfiction, there were mailing lists, there were specific pairings, there were challenges, there was so much potential, and I had SimpleText, a lot of time on my hands, and a need to make websites. So I did. You too can host 7,000 pieces of fanfiction in…

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