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Does anyone remember fanfiction from like 2001 to 2004 tho?

-wacky, highly out of character ‘sleepovers’ with the villains of the series

-not bothering to research the culture the series originated from (we live in Japan but for some reason we’re celebrating a westernized version of Christmas?)

-sugar highs??? the entire cast has eaten sugar and now randomness ensues!!1!

-really surreal oneshots taking a completely illogical idea to the highest possible level played completely for laughs (re: maybe Harry was so good at flying because He Was A Broom All Along)

-user guides for characters (as if they’re adoptable robots)

-disclaimer at the beginning of the story, end of the story,
used as page breaks in the middle of the story I DO NOT OWN THIS PLEASE
DON’T SUE I’M DIRT POOR

-author’s notes at the beginning of the story, end of
the story, used as page breaks in the middle of the story, LOL I WROTE
THIS AT ONE IN THE MORNING PLEASE REVIEW

-nutshell/condensed retellings of the series, again usually humorous

-AUs where everything except the main character’s names are completely different that have no real connections to the series (High School AUs are EVERYWHERE)

-The writer’s favourite character isn’t dead and the rest of the cast questions it once and then never mentions it again

-the writer talking to the characters in script form before the story actually starts

I don’t think I had Internet in 2001

I had. The fic of that era IS bonkers.

Though high school AUs are still everywhere.

I first read fanfic in 2005 and it was still like this.

The idea of reading fanfic in 2001 is so wild to me, I was six

I wrote a few of those kinds of fics back in that era. Fanfiction.net was the very first website I was allowed to go on with zero monitoring from parents and I’m 96.7% sure it put me on the path to the horrible person I am today.

And the Fake Married Trope rides immortal.

I’m telling you, you’ve never known true fandom meth until you’ve read your first fake-married-villains-high-on-sugar-sleep-over-au fic at 1am, and enjoyed it.

Now I feel old. I was reading fanfic on the internet in 1987. Trust me, rec.arts.** was definitely all about this stuff.