hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2007-05-09 11:29 am

You're supposed to get wood or silver after five years. How about sex on a dinner service?

Today is my Five (5) Year El Jay anniversary. That means that five years ago -- before a lot of you were even BORN! -- some crack pusher named [livejournal.com profile] latxcvi got ahold of my impressionable blogging self -- y'all remember when we blogged and used mailing lists? -- and said in her most alluring voice, "I have an LJ code, you want it?"

See, back in our day you had to have a code to get an LJ. Old skool bitter fandom queens holler if you hear me! Most of you are probably like, wow, I bet you didn't have running water either. (We didn't. We got our shit from a well!) But along came LaT with her crack, and I said, sure, because I was innocent and impressionable ([livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon, shut up!) and thought LJ was just another fad, like Blurty, or Greatest Journal, or whatever the hell everybody's on these days.

Guess I was wrong (yet again).

Five years later I have posted 1,402 journal entries (mostly about Nathan or Seth or Draco or Neville or Lex or Ari), 28,392 comments, and recieved 43,430 in return. We gotta get you a girl, mate.

I have a website that I haven't updated in, oh, eight months (my bad) and the number of stories and drabbles in my memories is around 500 -- and that's just the stuff I tagged. I can't even imagine how much time or pages in Word that is. Can I bill someone for this? Is today the day I throw in the proverbial towel? Will I ever stop wanting to write about the fucked up male characters? Has someone finally cloned Adrian Pasdar? These pressing questions keep me here.

Well, those and you guys, so thanks for the five years that I swore weren't even going to last five months. Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon and [livejournal.com profile] obsessedmuch for taking a chance on a crazy sycophant. Thank you [livejournal.com profile] latxcvi for bringing the good crack. Thank all of you for reading and commenting and art and icons and cossetting and smacking me around when the occasion called for it. Thank you for being a wonderfully supportive flist, it's truly my pleasure to be your hack writer.



ETA: AW! Thank you for the flowers! Y'all rock!

[identity profile] elzed.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
As the years go by and I look back on what LJ has brought me (just had a lovely evening out with a couple of flisters visiting London, am mildly drunk and in vastly benevolent mood), I am amazed. The nimber of people I have met that I would never have come across for a start...

[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Where are the hot young Jedi to carry me around on their backs, dammit? I was promised nubile young things!

We got a full tank of gas. Floor it.

[identity profile] silverakira.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, happy anniversary! Hopefully there will be many more to come. [g] (I admit, my reasons are all selfish, for lo, the day you stop writing fic will be a sad day indeed.) Seriously, though, I can never be grateful enough for your presence on my f-list and your music and your writing. And YOU. [heart] x infinity.

(Also, hahaha, I TOTALLY remember codes. Man.)

[identity profile] dorrie6.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ Anniversary!!! My flist would not be the same without you, and by "not be the same" I mean, of course, that it would SUCK. :) Thanks for sticking it out with us! *hug*
ext_21616: (petrelli is the new incest)

[identity profile] pandorablu.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ anniversary!!

I know what brought me here was the Ari, but I'm v.v. happy I stayed.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I know! The ending of Profit was sort of satisfying, but also you can tell that they were totally going to take that show in amazing places and I wanted to see what would happen. Also, I was sad that the last episode didn't end with a naked in the box shot. I need my naked in a box shots.

The last episode also has possibly my most favorite moment on television ever (I don't even think I'm exaggerating much): Profit's buck up little camper speech to Bobbi! I still laugh when I think about it.

And I wanted to see Profit buy Gail a car because he totally was going to do it.

[identity profile] megaloo13.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Re: codes-- *hollahs*

Happy LJ-versary! :)

[identity profile] lunais-cross.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ birthday and congratulations and all those other phrases I can't remember right now! XD

[identity profile] vylit.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I can't imagine now having you on my f-list now, baby.

*kisskiss*
athenejen: iAthena (Default)

[personal profile] athenejen 2007-05-10 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ-anniversary! You're amazing. I keep trying to come up with ways of explaining how much you and your writing kick ass, but I find I am without words. Suffice it to say, you're totally fabulous and make the LJ-verse a better and much more entertaining place with your presence.
ext_2583: "Lady Agnew" by John Singer Sargent (Tommy YOU RULE)

[identity profile] mskatej.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! Image

[identity profile] merrymelody.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJversary!

[identity profile] fatema.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You are so sweet! Thank you! *hugs*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll see you at the bitter end, baby!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*sighs stupidly at your icon*

What? Yes? I'm sorry was someone saying something?

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I love your icon. Yis.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

Right back atcha!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, what a lovely thing to say! Thank you so very much *preens happily*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] chicklet-girl.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
See, back in our day you had to have a code to get an LJ. Old skool bitter fandom queens holler if you hear me!

*hollers* I got my code from [livejournal.com profile] liviapenn. I wonder if there's some sort of vampire-sire thing we need to mythologize for the early days of LJ. Should the story include some kind of ritual one had to perform before making her first post?

Has someone finally cloned Adrian Pasdar?

No, they keep wasting money on trying to cure diseases. Priorities, Science! PRIORITIES!

[identity profile] teaspoon.livejournal.com 2007-05-11 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
congrats, miss. you make eljay a better place. :)

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