My recent "Fandom old" moment was listening to a podcast talking about fic. They did the Trek zines thing, then skipped straight to the Harry Potter and lj strike-through Era. And I was all "offa my damn lawn" and had to stop listening.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DebetEsse - Dec 05, 2018 8:21:12 am PST #2734 of 30019
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 8:21:30 am PST #2735 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This seems a bit more than I remember from the past - there has been the lying in state, funeral from the cathedral, flags lowered, etc., but I don't remember the National Day of Mourning with the government closing down.
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 8:22:28 am PST #2736 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Fandom old - I remember the first piece of fan fiction I came across - Dune fic ... in 1969.
Calli - Dec 05, 2018 8:25:41 am PST #2737 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Which one of us got the McSweeney's writing gig? [link] (Possibly NSFW. YWMV.)
-t - Dec 05, 2018 8:29:43 am PST #2738 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's literally "terrific"
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 8:35:31 am PST #2739 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I copyedit almost everything that goes out of my office and I recognize an unfortunate number of those. I think I'm especially annoyed by the misused apostrophes.
aurelia - Dec 05, 2018 8:56:28 am PST #2740 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Just met Want and Ignorance in the hallway. Ignorance was wearing red fuzzy slippers.
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 8:58:59 am PST #2741 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Ignorance of the dress code?
bennett - Dec 05, 2018 9:12:22 am PST #2742 of 30019
There was a day or mourning for Reagan complete with government closure. Only good thing that man ever did for me.
Amy - Dec 05, 2018 9:26:12 am PST #2743 of 30019
Because books.
I think the fanfare over GHW Bush might be because he is the most recent president to die. When Reagan died, or Nixon, they had been out of office for longer.
Was Jimmy Carter not at the service? I didn't see him. I did notice that the camera went close-up on all of the former presidents except the asshole in chief, who looked bored, confused and pissed off in equal measures.