#seriously if anyone remembers general mousetraps origin story pls remind me!!

[14th-centuary-capitalism]

im feeling nostalgic for ye olde days of the lorien legacies fandom so

A Non-Conprehensive List of Things We All Did In The Lorien Legacies Fandom c.2014

• Everyone followed each other because the fandom was small but active.

• Counting to 10 but skipping the number 5 because he's not part of the squad we all hate him

• Hating the movie

• Scoffing at the much more popular Divergent series because "our Four is better..."

• Everyone had same faceclaims and none of them were actual teenagers. Marina was Nina Dobrev or nothing.

• People haaaaaaated Sarah. A lot.

• John/Sarah vs John/Six vs Sam/Six vs Nine/Six vs Nine/Ella

• But no-one argued with Marina/Eight #Navrina

• Yeah why were we all okay with Nine/Ella??? Sure we all "aged her up" and wrote stories that were set 10 years in the future but come on now

• Everyone loved Devektra and Sandor

• Especially that one swiftie who stanned Devektra like no-one else and soon everyone was using Taylor Swift as their Devektra faceclaim

• "All the other girls want a boy like John or Nine, but I want an Eight ;)" Again I reiterate that this was c.2014. Also Eight was still described as a hot boy with abs so...

• Wait a good number of people used <8 instead of <3

• Marina=Elsa

• Everyone was CERTAIN that book 6 was gonna be called "Return of Eight" but then it wasn't and we were all mad

• People started falling off around Revenge of Seven becauseit was noticeably worse than the others :(

• Stanley the cat was everyone's favourite Chimaera :)

• And there were a TONNE of crackship brotp fics/fanart about Nine and Stanley

• No, seriously, a group of people organised ship weeks and there was a Ninely ship week

• They also held a poll to determine what their official ship name would be and my suggestion, Ninely, won... my legacy I guess?

• Haha legacy

• Okay speaking of legacies there was a surprising lack of oc's and self-inserts...

• Like they existed, there were a hundred different fics called I Am Number Eleven, but not as much as you would have thought

• Also a surprising lack of queer headcanons? I can't think of any popular gay ships. John/Nine was kinda treated like a crackship but I think Sam/Adam had a decent following. Not nearly as popular as Sam/Six or Adam/One, but still

• WAIT NO Pittacus Lore/Setrakus Ra was the most popular same sex ship!!!! It was mostly a crackship but there were also a lot of people who were genuinely invested!

• Idk why or who started it but everyone called Setrakus Ra "Mousetraps" pls tell me people still do that

• There was so much speculation about who Pittacus reincarnated was. Most popular were John, Marina, Ella and, controversially, Five.

• It ended up being John, right? I didn't read the last two books and I probably never will someone tell me if it was John.

All-in-all it was a super fun fandom!! Because it was so small and we were so passionate it felt really friendly and I hope that everyone currently active in the fandom is having as much fun with it!!

Yours sincerely,

the user formerly known as loricmeerkat78