holdouttrout | (no subject)

I was just going about my business today when out of nowhere I remembered my first fandom experience–the Pretender fanfic archive, conveniently hosted on a .de website. There’s a whole host of experiences I had from that time that I never have now:

1. Submitting documents to be uploaded by the webmaster and not knowing exactly when they’ll post.

2. Checking the archive every day to see if that fic I’m following has been updated.

3. Copying and pasting fics as fast as possible into a Word doc so I could get off the dial-up so my parents wouldn’t get mad at me.

4. Printing off fics using the tiniest font possible to read in my room, since I had limited time.

5. Hearing about this new website called FanFiction.Net and being pretty sure that would never catch on.

6. Sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night to get more fic.

#just felt nostalgic #fandom life #having fic on my phone is way more convenient #not to mention less expensive in paper and toner