Gather around Cats and Kitties, and let me tell you about the year book.
Right now it survives on as the "How we became Kittiens" thread, but buried in yahoo groups
two dozen or so people laboured on to build what Bob described on June 5, 2001 as
" our book would be created first and foremost as something we
can send to Joss, Aly and Amber so they could see how much their work
has meant in all of our lives. If we want to print extra copies for
board members or perhaps get Froggy to list them with the mugs and
mousepads and shirts, we can do that too. "
Here is a screen shot of the table of contents
There was a flurry of work that stopped short after the July 4 spoilers were published... 100+ posts in the first month with lots of new content
There were a slew of people who put in work for this, but the two editors were BBOvenguy (Bob) and
Anneke Sinnema (whose sig was 'She Who Is Addicted To Smilies And Uses Them In Nearly Every Sentence :/'')
It was a love letter to the community and the board it grew from. It is a great snapshot of the most exciting and optimistic
part of our journey, when it seemed all the Trauma thrown at the girls was over and we could look forward to season six of
pure good stuff.
There was a fair share of fanart
With romance
Manga style Shojo-a/Yuri
and some old fashioned smut
The last "real" post was on November 14 by Bob who wrote
"
Now we've got things in the Buffyverse taking a turn for the
drastic. It looks like we could have an extended period of W/T
badness ahead of us. What do we do with that? Hold back until we
see how the current story arc resolves? Or try to push the book
ahead as a way of helping the Kittens get through? Or what if we
dropped the idea of a printed book for now and tried to put an online
version together as a way of helping Kitten morale? Would that be
doable?"
"
and the reply was from a poster named Joy who said
"I think the best idea would be to hold off on printing til we are clear on the outcome of this. I am sure that the Kitties would love to see the work everyone has put into it and think happy thoughts of W/T. =)"
If anyone wants to take a peek, drop us a line at kittybookeditors at yahoogroups dot com
by Azirahael » Thu May 03, 2012 7:54 pm 
I actually just found a very short quote file I still have hanging around, so I'll send that your way. Good to see you're still around. This a great project.
