Renée's Fox Den

The thing they don't tell you about autism is the rage.

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

I miss my Commodore 64

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever  know.

Reblogged for that last comment.

respect your elders

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

if im careful i could whittle this peanut into sonic

Can’t get this on any other social media

also please know that almost all of these are by Carl Barks, a duck comic writer and artist who was so good that even though disney didn’t credit ANY OF THEIR ARTISTS FOR A LONG TIME (yes. I know. god.) people picked up that there was this one dude who was sincerely rocking the format and became so legendary that this anonymous creator was known amongst readers as ‘the Good Duck Artist’ or ‘the Good Duck Man’

e me a mail

make the attachment a pic of a snail

I still reference this post today. And yes, when I say I reference it I mean I sing it.

Since Jim Henson made the 1990 TMNT suits I would love to believe that makes the 90s turtles kinda sorta honorary Muppets. I think they'd like that