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[bubosquared]

It just hit me that less than two months from now, femgeeks is going to turn two years old.

...

God. I'm old. And there's 170+ MB of content on there, pure content, more than half of which is RPS, and man. I never imagined there'd be so many people willing to put their RPS out in the open, out and proud. Thinking about the way it was when I started RS-X, let alone when I got into slash ...

This summer marks the sixth anniversary of my reading my first slash story. I think that's why I associate summer with reading heaps and heaps of gay porn, because that's what I did the summer I was fifteen. Loads and loads of slash: The Sentinel, Highlander, due South, ...

Rareslash is three and a half now. My baby, my slash childhood home, and we're bigger than allslash, foerchrissakes! And of course the RSA. I have the worst memory in the wold, but I can remember each and every story I archived for the RSA, and every rare slash story I've ever read. That's impressive, I'd say. I remember the very first TMP slash story.

Six years in slash fandom, and all these things I can take credit for, rareslash, the RSA, RS-X, femgeeks, a dozen fandoms where I was the first to write slash, the FMO and subsequently knowing that I didn't let myself becompromised, that I stood up for what I believed in, ...

And yet, part of me wants to go back to being seventeen, eighteen, starting rareslash, being all "Eee!" and hero-worship-y when Mona subbed to the list, being all atwitter because we were up to 54 members, starting the RSA, the whole thrill of the newness, you know? Right now I feel old and jaded and responsible, and less than four years ago, I was a goddamn teenie.

You name it, I've seen it or want to!
(Me; RS; 12 March 1999)

Comments

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

170 MB of content? How much do you pay for hosting, woman?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

$9/mo, for now. $16/mo if we upgrade to the 400MB package.

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

Okay, and now I feel old.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Good. :p

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

You know what? You are a fucking angel. You've done more than any other one person to not only defend RPS, but give so many people--at your own expense--a place to do it. I want to make you a shiny medal and present it to you in a ceremony with a backing orchestra.

(And also, you give me WEBSPACE! for FREE! I can't possibly tell you how cool and wonderful that is. You are one of those people who make the world less evil and more joyful.)

[sunshinegirl.livejournal.com]

Simply: Amen to that.

Love you dearly, Melle, you know.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*blushes profusely* Thanks.

And I love you too. :)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's a good thing you can't see me now, because I'm resembling a rather large and embarassed tomato.

(Can't take credit for all the costs that go into femgeeks, though. LE people have contributed a lot for that.)

(And the same goes for the whole RPS thing--I think I mainly just managed to catch the first big wave and ride it out.)

But. Thanks. Knowing I've made even the slightest difference is the best feeling in the world.