verushka70

Ahhhh, I love stories like this! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for the links to the Bad!Ben page. (I have a favorite fic which casts Fraser in a very dark very not-good headspace and it's a great AU if you want the link!)

Also sometime I want to natter at you about Forever Knight. I did a livebloggy thing when I sat down to watch it during lockdown--I caught some episodes of it when it aired because my sister was into it and into vampires in general, Anne Rice and all--so some of it was new and some of it was a revisiting of it. Some of it aged fantastically (most of seasons 1&2) and some of it aged really poorly (there's a couple of s3 episodes where I was like WHUT).

Fans feeling the need/desire to push others down in favor of their preferred characters is indeed something that's still a thing, though I like to think most people grow out of it. Or at least learn what is and isn't good to be aired in public, which amounts to the same thing.

Also looking at that list of top shows of 1993 just about took me out, lol. I remember there being controversies over Murphy Brown at the time, too. I'm glad we've come so far but I wish we could have gotten here a little faster, you know?

Thank you for this, it's a great got-into-fandom story!