outside the glass the whole world is magnified

[lotesse]

Abbey/orangeblossom did an AMA over at her journal about VB/Andy/thanfiction over the weekend. All of her retrospective writing on Bit of Earth is fascinating to me - I was there, but on the outside. I interacted with all these people without knowing what was going down in meatspace. Some of the stuff about LotR being real came through, but it seemed like pastiche play at the time, taking Tolkien's mock-editorial stance very faux-seriously. Spoiler alert, it was not.

Abbey left me some of my first ever fic reviews, back when I was just getting started, and I will always think fondly of her for it. But it's such a strange experience to be poking around in the back of an old fandom and recognize one of Andy's pseuds. I wouldn't engage with his work now, but ngl some of the old VoyagerBabe stuff in Due South gets me there, mashes the buttons nicely. idek.

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[staranise]

That entire thing gets weirder every time I come back to it.

But that's the thing about charismatic people: they are really exciting and enthralling and awesome right up until they're not.

[lotesse]

It feels a lot less weird now than it did ten years ago!

It was Victoria I fell in love with, or the idea of her. I adored her the way babyfen adore the decent/mediocre tweenfen they will become - she was writing dark melodramatic schmoop and I thought she was so cool - but of course I was shy and would never have approached her! And Andy was already in the process of abandoning that persona, so I was safe at any rate. I can still remember a lot about the fics, though.