The perennial “What are your favourite threads?” threads tend to focus on those that stayed at the top of the forum for weeks, went for pages and pages, garnered five-figure views, have been linked to all over creation, repeatedly resurrected throughout the ages before being finally put down (by a seemingly-regretful and apologetic mod,) and are pretty much well-worn and familiar to all but our newest members.
This is totally natural and predictable, of course – but I know everyone’s got quiet little favourites that might never have made it to page two and vanished after a brief flash, never to be mentioned again.
I was recently reminded of Ilsa_Lund’s What if Dr. Seuss had been written by someone else? – the memory of which is of course obscured by the glory of its titanic forebear If LOTR had been written by someone else?
I recall this ill-fated thread so fondly (the e.e. cummings & H.P. Lovecraft contributions, especially) but it never lived up to its potential and vanished in less than two days.
Which nearly-forgotten threads do you guys recall that “coulda been a contender?”