Countdown to Small Gifts 4/7: Beginnings

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

How did you first discover R/S? Do you remember the first story you read? The first art you saw? What attracted you to the pairing?


For those of you just discovering our posts, we're counting down to small gifts with a series of daily discussions of the ship:
Monday, November 23: Favorite eras and genres
Tuesday, November 24: Cliches
Wednesday, November 25: Sex

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[paulamcg.livejournal.com]

I’d written borderline slash/gen fic about my Remus-loving Sirius for a year, since September 2003 – posting a chaptered story and a couple of short stories on a single site, The Snitch Forums – before I found out that I wasn’t all alone and that there were places where even explicit slash was allowed. In summer 2004 The Snitch was hacked and when the forums remained quiet, I googled for Remus fic and first joined a small site dedicated to him. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of that site or any fics, but I remember that there were some well-written stories by Pirate Perian. A bit later when I joined FictionAlley, she was the first writer to get numerous and long reviews from me. (Some of those stories of hers I admired were just friendship fic, though.) I’ve now managed to locate a huge review I crafted of Things You Didn’t Have (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/pirate_perian/TYDH01a.html) in October 2004. Only after that did I find the Wolfstar thread in FA Park and get to know RL/SB writers.