I am raising a beer to a fellow pre-Internet fanfic writer. I am old enough to remember when you had to hide the smut because some busybodies would ruin your life if they found your fic and outed you as a "pervert." So much of this purity culture shit is just the same old "PTA mom, Satanic Panic" style moral hysteria
Gotta love the 80s! (TBH, I got in on alt.tv.x-files, so online, but I collect old Miami Vice zines and do a lot of fandom history stuff, so I tend to know people from before.)









