1. I first heard of you because of All About Spike. I was totally hooked on BtVS/AtS, and searched online for novelisations and other sources to feed the addiction ... and ran across fanfic. I'd always scorned fanfic, and the BtVS fic I found did little to disabuse me of this opinion ... until I found AAS. I realised that not only was fanfic a fascinating and complex writing genre, but that Spike was the focus of my Buffy addiction, and that fanfic was the solution to the problems I was having with canon Spike.
2. I first heard your name/started thinking of you as a person and not a website because of your Con reports, and then because of your LJ.
3. I don't associate you with people/series/groups, other than as webmistress/archivist at AAS. I associate you with standards of writing. Whenever I'm working on a fic I always have, in the middle of my mind, the concern that I will or won't be worthy of archiving at AAS. Not that AAS approval is the only criterion of fic quality, but it's certainly a useful standard to strive for.
You were the starting point for my BtVS/AtS online fandom experience. I lucked out by finding AAS almost immediately, and through AAS and your LJ I've found other writers and points of contact.
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Date: 2004-02-21 09:18 am (UTC)2. I first heard your name/started thinking of you as a person and not a website because of your Con reports, and then because of your LJ.
3. I don't associate you with people/series/groups, other than as webmistress/archivist at AAS. I associate you with standards of writing. Whenever I'm working on a fic I always have, in the middle of my mind, the concern that I will or won't be worthy of archiving at AAS. Not that AAS approval is the only criterion of fic quality, but it's certainly a useful standard to strive for.
You were the starting point for my BtVS/AtS online fandom experience. I lucked out by finding AAS almost immediately, and through AAS and your LJ I've found other writers and points of contact.