Fanhistory.com:Selected anniversaries/December 24

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dvd cover.

In December of 2000, Puppies in a Box, an NSync fan fiction site, went live. This site was very important in the history of the NSync fan fiction community. The site is now defunct. [1]
Between December 19, 2001 and December 28, 2001, the tolkien_slash mailing list on Yahoo discussed the slashy subtext between the actors in the movie. (Marythefan: [2])
Between December 18, 2001 and the end of the year, FanFiction.Net’s total number of Lord of the Rings stories climbed to 135. Seventeen stories or fifteen percent were slash. [3]
In December 2001, the Snape Slash Fleet was founded. [4][5]

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