Yes, although I'm not sure when AO3 started. I remember dragging my heels before finally jumping on the bandwagon, which I think was late 2011. Maybe. I started writing NCIS fandom in late 2009 and decided to start posting that over at AO3. I only have about a third of my PopSlash stories loaded onto AO3. I keep meaning to add more, but it never seems to happen. There were so many really great stories that didn't get archived. Very sad. And I'm sure some were archived, then the account was deleted. It's a lot nicer when people orphan their work, so it's still there to enjoy.
I've shared with some people how different PopSlash was because it seemed like everyone was on LJ during its heyday. I remember there were dozens of active communities, challenges and participants. There seemed to be multiple posts nearly daily. And then everyone seemed to just drift away. Now everyone is scattered all over the place, so it's difficult to really make new fandom friends the way you can on LJ or DW.
I was reading fanfic for a long time before I started writing. I started reading sometime between '99 and '01. But I did not start writing fanfic until Dec 2003 and that was because I felt I'd run out of new (to me) stories in the fandom. I remember Gretchen's stories were the ones that lured me into fandom. I started my first LJ account sometime in early 2004. And wrote my final PopSlash story in Dec 2010 (for SeSa, of course!).
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I've shared with some people how different PopSlash was because it seemed like everyone was on LJ during its heyday. I remember there were dozens of active communities, challenges and participants. There seemed to be multiple posts nearly daily. And then everyone seemed to just drift away. Now everyone is scattered all over the place, so it's difficult to really make new fandom friends the way you can on LJ or DW.
I was reading fanfic for a long time before I started writing. I started reading sometime between '99 and '01. But I did not start writing fanfic until Dec 2003 and that was because I felt I'd run out of new (to me) stories in the fandom. I remember Gretchen's stories were the ones that lured me into fandom. I started my first LJ account sometime in early 2004. And wrote my final PopSlash story in Dec 2010 (for SeSa, of course!).