THAT'S RIGHT: WHEN I DISCOVERED THE INTERNET, THE FIRST THING FOR WHICH I USED IT WAS BEING A TROLL. I am not proud of this.
Last summer, I dug up what I hope was the current email address of the creator of a certain website I briefly frequented and wrote her a long message apologising deeply for our brief, yet intense, email flamewar when I was twelve - which was, I hasten to add, entirely my fault. We've all been there. (She hasn't replied, but I feel better for having done it.)
I think the first m/m fic I ever read was by you, actually. I was looking through your ff.net account and came across a fic with "Zell/Squall - WARNING SLASH" in the description. I did not know what slash was and I did not know who Zell or Squall were, so I read it to see what this thing you were warning for was, and was mildly perplexed at this shameless, wanton description of two men cuddling.
I came to the fanfiction world a little later than you did - I was eleven. (Hopefully this doesn't make my shameful shameful mistakes any less understandable.) I remember the first fanfic I ever wrote - as well you know - was a Pokemon epic about how Missingno was born from a poor abandoned baby Lapras in a storm. No, wait! I wrote another one before that - it was meant to be an extension of one of the Tamora Pierce series, but I got bored and never posted it. Ah, youth.
When I was twelve/thirteen I went starry-eyed with admiration over self-harm/suicide fics, and if they were about two characters' repressed homosexual relationship, so much the better. That was during my emo phase. I will say that this has made me a permanent sucker for well-written angst and that that is totally not the same thing. (...right?)
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Last summer, I dug up what I hope was the current email address of the creator of a certain website I briefly frequented and wrote her a long message apologising deeply for our brief, yet intense, email flamewar when I was twelve - which was, I hasten to add, entirely my fault. We've all been there. (She hasn't replied, but I feel better for having done it.)
I think the first m/m fic I ever read was by you, actually. I was looking through your ff.net account and came across a fic with "Zell/Squall - WARNING SLASH" in the description. I did not know what slash was and I did not know who Zell or Squall were, so I read it to see what this thing you were warning for was, and was mildly perplexed at this shameless, wanton description of two men cuddling.
I came to the fanfiction world a little later than you did - I was eleven. (Hopefully this doesn't make my shameful shameful mistakes any less understandable.) I remember the first fanfic I ever wrote - as well you know - was a Pokemon epic about how Missingno was born from a poor abandoned baby Lapras in a storm. No, wait! I wrote another one before that - it was meant to be an extension of one of the Tamora Pierce series, but I got bored and never posted it. Ah, youth.
When I was twelve/thirteen I went starry-eyed with admiration over self-harm/suicide fics, and if they were about two characters' repressed homosexual relationship, so much the better. That was during my emo phase. I will say that this has made me a permanent sucker for well-written angst and that that is totally not the same thing. (...right?)
...and now let us never speak of it again. >_>