Sep 7, 2023
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
Things going while tidying: screaming elephant toy (no longer screaming due to dead battery) signed by Terry Pratchett.
I am sure there was an alt.fan.pratchett related context to this but it is eluding me right now.
How to irritate your offspring.
My 15 year old can't decide whether it is cool or annoying that I found online fandom before they did. Apparently most mothers don't discuss AO3 tags or recomend fics or share tumblr/twitter/instagram posts with their offspring. Or lament the loss of usenet and livejournal at them (I signed up for tumblr when it first launched back in 2007 but livejournal was still a thing then, and I never used my account).
It has been fun discussing Goncharov over the weekend, none of my RL friends are online so it would go completely over their heads.
We have agreed that we will not follow each other here; for one thing, we are interested in different Dreams (Dream of the Endless for me, DreamSMP Minecraft for them). So we have to physically find each other and hand over our phones, and say 'read this, you'll like this.'
(My first online fandom was X-files, but it was Discworld on usenet that has lasted. I'm still friends with people I met through alt.fan.pratchett).
Wait. Wait. Are you selling that PTerry elephant??
in trying to reconnect with the context of it I kind of got reattached to it a little, so not unless somebody makes me a very tempting offer, I guess.
All the AFPeople are congregating on #afp - including people who haven’t logged on in 10 years or longer. 75 people now. Lots of memories flying. It’s kind of sad and kind of glorious.
There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.
-- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)