>>Over in the discussion of the UF mini Agreement in Principle,
>>this happened.
>>
>>Pasha said:
>>>><1> Merc, I *really* wanna read what you have to think about NXE.
>>
>2001, I believe. It certainly wasn't in 1998; this happened at
>Katsucon, which wasn't there in '98.
>
Because sometimes (okay, all the time...) its all about me in my head, I read this and my first thought was "Wait, Gryph and I were at a con at the SAME TIME and I didn't meet him?" (because this was and is a rare thing, I avoid East Coast cons like the plague now that I moved away from there...) And then I realized I was working for a table in the Dealers' Room at that con, had a pregnant wife at the time, and was ALSO coming down with something. So that explains that.

NXE was actually the first Eyrie thing that I read, and my first thought was that I was just happy that there was DECENTLY WRITTEN Eva fanfic. In prose, because apparently back in the bad old days it was acceptable to write fic in SCRIPT FORMAT. I would have liked DJ to discover his mortality just a bit sooner, because he was an arrogant shit when it finally happened, but for all its conceits I liked the story, and for the life of me I just don't get why people hated on it. But then I thought a LOT of the crap the fanfic community did (like crashing servers and infecting them with virii) was pretty stupid.

OTOH, I would have liked to WATCH the conversation that's the thread topic, if only to see the deconstruction of Merc's objections.