Full disclosure: I was very close friends with Cassie at the time—more real life friends than fandom friends, as we live in the same city—but for mysterious reasons (I think mostly having to do with my being neither hugely popular nor particularly wanky) my name (Clio) was never connected to most of the wank. (I was also very close personal friends with msscribe.) But yes, things got very crazy up in there, and stayed crazy for a while. Though I don't think it was all of that, that really lead to the feral fandom claims.
Interesting that you were in Snape fandom, as I think that was the fandom that was the most interconnected to traditional SF-F fandom, while the rest of fandom (especially the H/D slashers, etc) were coming more out of anime fandom, or were in their first fandom. Snape fandom always seemed very separate from the rest of what was going on.
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Date: 2009-06-10 11:19 pm (UTC)Interesting that you were in Snape fandom, as I think that was the fandom that was the most interconnected to traditional SF-F fandom, while the rest of fandom (especially the H/D slashers, etc) were coming more out of anime fandom, or were in their first fandom. Snape fandom always seemed very separate from the rest of what was going on.