Fannish nostalgia and glee

Sailor Moon reboot!!!!!! This is old news, I know, and has been sitting in an open browser window on my laptop for ages. But my excitement is sustained! (I've been reading the manga, starting with Sailor V and got all the way through R. Now I'm waiting until I have all of S.)

Sailor Moon was my very first fandom. It was 1995, I was seventeen, and then we got the internet. And then I found fandom. Newsgroups! Geocities webpages! FTP sites! It was an era of MIDI and WAV files, 14.4 dial-up modems, and swapping VHS fansubs through the mail. Pretty much all Sailor Moon fanfic out there was on A Sailor Moon Romance, and it was all in a list on one page. New releases came out Friday nights, in two zip files, one for the gen stories (though we didn't call them that), and one for the lemons (aka smut of all varieties).

Last weekend, we visited zulu and bell, and bell and I are both full of fannish glee. We may have made our extremely understanding spouses watch some of Sailor Stars. (Barb was teaching in Japan when Sailor Stars was originally airing. She said when she first saw it, as far as she could figure, whoever took their clothes off first won.) I had forgotten how WTF Stars is, especially without watching the previous four seasons first.

I mayyyyy have a USB key loaded up with all forty-some eps of the first season, thanks to bell...