I started rereading the MsScribe story for some reason and the thing that struck me the most was the way politics just … wasn’t a thing the way it is on the internet of today?
Like, there was an election coming up, and so people started talking about their political views, and it came out that a bunch of people were Bush supporters, and sure the fandom was skewed left even then but people’s reaction was more or less “oh hmm … I hadn’t really thought about what to do if this came up … like what do we do? do we just ignore this or”
when reading it the first time, I either didn’t pick up on MsScribe’s race at all or it wasn’t salient enough for me to remember, which just seems unimaginable today