Artemis Fowl FanGathering

Website
Name:	Artemis Fowl FanGathering
Owner/Maintainer:	MichaelM
Dates:	August 31, 2005 - 2024
Type:
Fandom:	Artemis Fowl
URL:	https://artemisfowl.fangathering.com/
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Artemis Fowl FanGathering was an Artemis Fowl fansite and community. In 2016, it was closed to new members and registrations. In 2024, the website was finally shut down, with a full-page memorial replacing all contents, some of which is sampled below. In large part, it was closed due to issues with spam bots. Active community members maintain a small Discord server called Fangathering.

Statistics

Shared 1499 artworks in the fanart gallery, collectively viewed over 2.5 million times! 🧑‍🎨

Proved "You Learn Something New Everyday" is true 17,906 times 🧠

Delivered 15 issues of The Haven Herald, our Site Team's newsletter 🤩

Published 3185 works of fanfiction ✏️

Reviewed those fics over 40,000 times (including the spambots who eventually caused us to shut that site 🙈)

Spent over 50,000 replies "Counting to 50 before a mod replies". Think you guys won that one 😅

VENT HERE!!'ed almost 3000 times, with a further 600 in the "twisted" vents 😱

Wrote 54 chapters in private messages to yourself (if you're Felina 😸)

Created & solved mysteries abound in 165 pages of The Loveless Fangirls 🫶

Kept our "Book Thread!" going from January 2006 right through to March 2024 📚

Described the last thing we ate 645 times (who needs Instagram??)

Counted, one post at a time, all the way to 45354. You palindromic crazy people... 😂

Chatted 478,516 times across 7161 threads in the forum. Wow. ❤️

Example Memorial Comments

I made lifelong friendships here - K12 and I even met up IRL! I'm friends with so many of you on Facebook and Instagram, and keep track of your lives. My "big brothers and sisters" here helped to kindle my love for writing and helped me to hone my craft. You helped me to grow as a person, to learn how to debate, and gave me a sense of community when the other kids involved in my day-to-day activities were often mean to me. I remember fondly the days when logging on to FG to chat with my friends would be the bright spot of my day.

HollyShort9

Wow, has FG been a huge part of my life! I grew up in the middle of nowhere in a place where people hated to read, so for so much of my teenage years, you all were such good friends to me! I remember being so excited to share with you all when I left school and started university, then I graduated, then I got a job in my field on a short term contract, then I got made permanent, and now I've been here for 5 years. The whole time FG was there for me like a second home.

Cabaline

You guys have really helped me through some tough times, both when I was a teenager on here ranting and talking my heart out, and as a young adult returning to reminisce. It's strange to think that it's kind of the end of an era for all of us. I think many other of the slightly younger members on here might be of the same experience, Fangathering truly was my first encounter with fandom and fan spaces in general, and honestly nothing has ever compared since. You just can't get this degree of community anymore. I'll forever treasure the time I spent here - with the people who stayed and the people who left.

Josephine Fowl

I have too many memories of this place, laughing at our characters in RPs, at how witty people here could be - and learning from discussions on the forums, about other people, countries and cultures... In the meantime I've lived across the world, and visited almost every continent, but this was my little window in the people scattered across the world who cared about the same kind of fiction as I did. If I could put into words the feeling of the 2AM sleepy high-schooler me reading and smiling on this forum, that is what I would put.

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