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Question of the day part 8
RokofAges75:
I also had stories posted on ff.net for a brief time, before they removed real person stories. I don't remember actually reading much BSB fanfic on there, though; my favorite places to read stories were all other sites. I read primarily Harry Potter fanfic on ff.net, right after I got into the books.
mare:
The very first place I posted was FF.net for I swear a hot minute before they closed it down to us lol
I believe it was Izzy who hosted me first followed closely by Julie. There was another place too but I'm ashamed to say I don't remember who they were. I can tell you that I tried to get hosted on the BSB Attorneys but they turned me down because they never heard of me and only wanted to host people they knew were good writers. I'll never forget that, my first rejection. LOL I think Izzy's site is still up and running, although I'm not positive.
Purpura Lipstick:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 03, 2013, 01:55:36 PM ---I totally remember your site, circa 2003, because of the review site. I don't think I ever submitted a story there, but my friend Bianca did. I don't remember it being too garish, but back then I wouldn't have known the difference because most of them were that way! LOL
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Ah yes my review site! Most of the stories were submitted by the actual author, which was a rule, but I still remember the fallout from giving a review to someone who didn't know it was coming. YIKES! I tried to be fair on that site and since I was going to school to teach I had a rubric that I went off of when reviewing. But I also said that it was all subjective to my tastes. LOL Geocities killed that site mostly, that and my lack of time to read for awhile. LOL
I remember our award that we gave out. Remember the random awards sites would give out or you could "apply" to get? LOL ... Ours was simply "This site has been kissed by Purple Lipstick" with an image of purple lipprints. Nobody really wanted our award as we didn't get requests to have us look at sites very often. LOL
--- Quote from: mare on January 03, 2013, 03:25:23 PM ---The very first place I posted was FF.net for I swear a hot minute before they closed it down to us lol
I believe it was Izzy who hosted me first followed closely by Julie. There was another place too but I'm ashamed to say I don't remember who they were. I can tell you that I tried to get hosted on the BSB Attorneys but they turned me down because they never heard of me and only wanted to host people they knew were good writers. I'll never forget that, my first rejection. LOL I think Izzy's site is still up and running, although I'm not positive.
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wow you got rejected? BSB Attonrneys always came off as a bit snobby to me. .
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on January 03, 2013, 03:25:23 PM ---The very first place I posted was FF.net for I swear a hot minute before they closed it down to us lol
I believe it was Izzy who hosted me first followed closely by Julie. There was another place too but I'm ashamed to say I don't remember who they were. I can tell you that I tried to get hosted on the BSB Attorneys but they turned me down because they never heard of me and only wanted to host people they knew were good writers. I'll never forget that, my first rejection. LOL I think Izzy's site is still up and running, although I'm not positive.
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LOL I remember the BSB Attorneys site too, but I don't think I ever read any stories there. They weren't my kind of thing.
I do think it's funny that pretty much all those sites and authors that were so popular and esteemed in the fandom are gone now, and those of us who were just peons back in the day are still here and have become respected writers in the fandom.
Izzy's site went down with Geocities, but it's well archived through either archive.org or one of the Geocities mirror sites. http://www.oocities.org/ocean_izzy/ Some of her stories are actually on Angelfire, so those are really still online.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on January 03, 2013, 03:26:38 PM ---I remember our award that we gave out. Remember the random awards sites would give out or you could "apply" to get? LOL ... Ours was simply "This site has been kissed by Purple Lipstick" with an image of purple lipprints. Nobody really wanted our award as we didn't get requests to have us look at sites very often. LOL
wow you got rejected? BSB Attonrneys always came off as a bit snobby to me. .
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Haha, I remember those! I'm trying to remember if I ever had one for Dreamer's Sanctuary... I might have at one time or another. I went through lots of those fads - the sister sites and the site protectors/adoptions and the fan signs. I was going through my old pages the other day, deleting the ones that were obsolete, and found my "Spirit Garden," which was a page full of these "spirit flower" things you could download, which were a picture of a flower pot that would "grow" into a flower over time. Why I thought that was something worthy of putting onto a fanfic page, I have no idea, but I must have seen them on someone else's and thought they were cool LOL.
I got the same vibe about the BSB Attorneys, but looking back, I figured it was just because I was young and jealous of their success. I never had any personal beef with them; it was just a vibe, like you said. There were several of those.
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