[ SECRET POST #4695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4695 ⌋

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I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

So I can tell you, nonny, how it was back then.

How soon we forget that while not as wild as the Star Trek days, the internet at the time was still something of a frontier. Even the word "fandom" was not well known back then. A Mormon housewife was not the type to know about the existence of fanfic, and SteMe definitely never heard of it before writing Twilight. She was very fond of it though, and even once entered a fic contest anonymously (the judge was a friend of hers and caught onto the piece immediately, so she ended up posting it on her website as a canon missing scene.)

At the time the biggest fandom by far was Harry Potter, and we were only just starting to get some mainstream notice. Those were some wild west days my friend. You wanna see some crazy, some shootout at the corral flame wars and the like? You look up Msscribe and Cassandra Clare.

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

..? This wasn't the dark ages. I remember when he books first came out too, and even if you shave a few more years from that- the internet was very much up and running. It's was more the what happens on the internet, stays on the internet years. But, not at all what you're talking about. Or am I missing the joke? (it wouldn't be the first time)

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

DA - What are you even talking about? The first book was published in 2005. My mother, a midwestern housewife in her 50s, knew about and was writing fanfic and posting it online at least 5 years before that. I started writing and posting my own fic around the same time she did. Does that mean SM was? Of course not. But let's not pretend that internet fandoms weren't active back then. There's a difference between being mainstream (which I would argue fandom still isn't, even today, and also lol I am always amused by HP fans acting like they invented fandom) and being completely unknown to all but the craziest fringes of the "proto-internet".

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

Right? NO idea where nonny came up with that nonsense. In 2005 Fanfiction.net was up and busy, Livejournal was still a thing and plenty of people knew about fandom. Yes, adult women, too. SMH.

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

It's the "I Was There" that's cracking me up the most, as if they have some secret knowledge that no one else here does. I mean, clearly not, unless nonny means specifically in SM's house and so they can speak specifically to whether she was writing fanfic. Because they clearly weren't "there" when it comes to what fandom in general was doing...

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

SA because I just can't get over this. The "look up these examples, sweet summer child" tone is also killing me. Like, they're just assuming the OP is some noob who doesn't know their fandom history or something. My God, the unwarranted arrogance on display...

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I agree this comment was weird, not least of which for being inaccurate, but imo you're way more offended by it than is warranted.

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not offended; I'm amused. So sorry if you're offended because I don't convey tone online in a manner you deem acceptable.

(For the record, I'm not really sorry - or offended - now either!)

Re: I Was There

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, no. Fandom wasn't as mainstream as it is now, but it wasn't some obscure arcane dark art, practiced only by teenagers. Your own example of Cassandra Clare was 32 in 2005, nonny. I was in fandom in 2005, and my own small circle of acquaintance was half college student and younger, half housewives. And yes, we all knew the word "fandom"... I mean geez, where do you even get this weird notion?

Which is not to say that SM knew about fandom - I have no idea if she did or not. But if she was ignorant about it, it had nothing to do with being a Mormon housewife.