Fandom Question: Harry Potter

[azurelunatic]

Where did "theirloveisso..." originate?

Am having the idea that it started out as "theirloveissopure", somewhere, and spread, but bugger me if I know where/who, and which pairing...

Anyone?

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[moony]

Aha! Well, that settles it, ne?

I honestly thought it predated O-Town. Shows how much I know. Perhaps I was merely thinking wistfully of a world without Ugly Rats In Love.

(And you know, the sad thing is that I could have just picked up the phone and called Silvia and ASKED her, "Yo, where'd 'theirloveisso' come from?" but no, because I suck.)

:-D

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, also according to Silvia, Bonibaru *swore* she'd seen it around before the Rats, so there you go.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out if I was actually the one who coined the acronym "RPS" or not ...

[moony]

When did the whole O-Town slash stuff happen? Because I had just got to Orlando when the theirloveisso... thing was really in full-force, and that was early-2001, but I could sweat I'd heard it before that. *hits head*

And I wouldn't be surprised if you were the one responsible for RPS. ;-) You deviant personality, you!

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

:p Well, before RS-X and all (this was early 2000), people always called it "actorslash", because the possibility of musicianslash didn't seem to occur to them. (Will spare you further theorising, but suffice to say the RPS and FPS worlds were very much separated back then.) The first handful of posts on RS-X still call it "real people slash" or "realpeopleslash", and I'm fairly sure I coined the acronym when I wrote the FMO.

I AM NOT A DEVIANT!

Oh, and O-Town? No clue, as I didn't get into popslash until late (like, late December) 2000, early 2001.

[moony]

I love the acronymns, man. Acronymns MAKE the fandom. Not to mention the great names people come up with for pairings. Current favoure: Snape/Tonks = Snonks.

You arrrrre a deviant. Deeeeeeeeviously so.

You got into Popslash just after I did, then, and the O-Town stuff was going on in mid-2001. My friends list was so scary.