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] brandil.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJversary

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, Coach Taylor! NBC better bring you back, dammit!

[identity profile] unperfectwolf.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
♥ - I don't remember how, exactly, I found you, but I remember going 'omg who is this' and sorta maybe falling into a lj-crush. I am glad you lasted. :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, you are very sweet, thank you!

[identity profile] amberlynne.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, happy day! *twirls*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Minion!
aimeelicious: (bug)

[personal profile] aimeelicious 2007-05-09 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you persist in hack writing! Don't know what I'd do without ya, but my flist sure wouldn't be the same.

=)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a dirty job, somebody's gotta do it :)

[identity profile] torchthisnow.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
We also had to walk uphill both ways, barefoot, in a snowstorm to get decent slash.

In celebration, I will work on cloning Pasdar for you.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
We also had to walk uphill both ways, barefoot, in a snowstorm to get decent slash.


I'm saying, kids these days don't recognize. My own Pasdar?! Oh, Happy Day!

[identity profile] algernon-mouse.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!!

esp. because you were one of the main reasons I got my own lj *blushing*

/being a total dweeb...now.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, you are very sweet! Thank you. *grins stupidly*

[identity profile] antheia.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Christ, I remember the codes. I even remember who lured me over here. *sigh*


♥ Happy LJ-versary.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Was there a time I didn't know you? I don't remember this.

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[identity profile] yavannauk.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Woo! Happy LJ-versary!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a happy LJ-versary!

(and here's my fangirly hoping that you are still writing here in 5, 10, 15... more years!)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
15 years? Oh my god. How about we get through next week first ;)
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[identity profile] musesfool.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJversary! It wouldn't be near as much fun without you!

*twirls*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Right back atcha!

[identity profile] literaryll.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You already know how I feel about you right? How much pleasure you've given me, how much you've enriched my fannish life. Hell, my life period.

THERE AREN'T WORDS FOR HOW MUCH I ADORE AND LOOK UP TO YOU. I'm sooooooooo happy you're here. Please stay forever.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You are tres tres awesome, sweetie, I am so glad you stalked Kass we met!
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[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Blogs, baby, we had BLOGS. And if you wanted to read other people's regularly you had to link to them. Damn. That's like the hamster inside your computer at this point, isn't it?
ext_2524: do what you like (heroes: oh boys)

[identity profile] slodwick.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude. INVITES. I wish we still had them sometimes.

Happy LJversary, doll! *g*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
INVITES. I wish we still had them sometimes.

I hear you, baby girl. I hear you.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ anniversary! And I'm so glad you're around because like Adrian, you are made of awesome.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Adrian really is made of awesome, isn't he? Also, I finished watching Profit last night. WHY IS THERE NO MORE?! The Baby Petrelli is very distressed.

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[identity profile] sparrowette.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!

As for the title--how about all three? *gives you a Pasdar clone chained in silver to a wooden bed frame* 8)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*gives you a Pasdar clone chained in silver to a wooden bed frame*

Ohhhhhh. The gift that keeps on giving. Amen.

[identity profile] ethrosdemon.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Tham made me get my journal. I think we couldn't have been that far apart. I should check out the date on mine.

You're my best girl.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I love seahorses. You know the men get pregnant right? That's awesome.

[identity profile] sockich.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
HAPPY LJ-VERSARY! ♥

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] blondiusmaximus.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ-versary! :D

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] corinna-5.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Holla!

Happy anniversary!!!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Back in the day, baby. Back in the day.

[identity profile] xnitelite.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Your posts and stories are one of life's little pleasures, my dear.

Happy LJ anniversary!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
What a lovely thing to say, thank you. [insert big cheesy smile here]

[identity profile] hey-mockingbird.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!! Happy five!! Thanks for sticking around to write amazing fics and bring your own brand of crack!

*gives cookies*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
RON! Just had to get that out of my system. Also, thank you :)

[identity profile] gene-lee.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, five years... I first came across this Lj after a fic rec for Telegraph Avenue, back when The OC was actually good. Man, how depressing is that?... but on the other hand, you outlived Marissa Cooper! Yay!!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
on the other hand, you outlived Marissa Cooper! Yay!!

Now that is some good news right there.
celli: a woman and a man holding hands, captioned "i treasure" (Default)

[personal profile] celli 2007-05-09 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
*beam*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
We're old skool, baby.

[identity profile] elzed.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary, madam - and may there be may more ahead...

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[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, invites. Yeah, I remember. Of course, I also remember when none of us were even blogging, so there you go. Old am I. *G*

Happy LJversary! It would be a hell of a lot more boring around here if you'd slipped away. *HUGS*

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2007-05-10 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, Master Yoda, we have a couple miles on the truck, but we're still good for another 100,000 miles at least. :)

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