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  1. I can’t believe I hadn’t left a comment on the first read of this fic. God, it’s one of the best-written in the entire fandom. How aren’t there more comments or kudos?! It’s criminal!! The character voices, banter, characterization, descriptions of skating, are so vivid!

    (Also yes, I remember pagers! I think you’re also
    one of the few who is writing actual ERA-accurate fic!! The avoiding fraying the JNCOs is so real. I don’t think I saw my first scene kid til maybe 2005-2006)

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    1. Daffy sipping a pink smoothie wearing red horn-rimmed shades. It says Tis Gucci behind him in pink.

      😭😭😭 this is so kind!!! (and very reassuring!!!!!!! I do enjoy writing but after seeing my own work for so long it does dull the experience of rereading it. Until ive been away for... what is it now, seven months?)

      I hike my saggy straghtlegs and flares up with hairbands because I'm a wuss, personally, but holding them up akin to a princess holding the front of a gown is a formative developmental experience imo.

      Growing up in a midwest small town, there was so much novelty to scene culture, but its growth was sooooo slow. Definitely NOT yet popular enough to be seen around my hometown, especially in 1999 or 2000

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      1. awww man! this is a treat to know you’re adding early aughts midwestern realness. this is def where i headcanon SU to be.

        i was a suburban west coast kid, but think i was too caught up with the hipsters/goths/weebs/asian alt communities to realize they were scene-adjacent lol. maybe i’d seen proto-scene kids and never realized!

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