New Generation was my favorite, too! (Although the sheer heft and reach of Macross overshadows all.)
I'm intrigued and bemused that Masters seems to presently hold a significant percentage of the Robotech fanfic loaded to the AO3. Masters was always my own least favorite (among chapters of a dearly beloved story). Maybe I need to rewatch and reread to see whether there's something new there since I've grown up and the world has changed... maybe there are emergent metaphors in there that resonate differently now.
;-) Maybe I like excuses for revisiting old beloved stories. ;-)
Yep, the little cultural things that each generation forgets to wonder whether they had a starting point, or have always been! The idea of paying for drinking water in the '80s (at least in Anchorage, in my family) would have been ludicrous, and there certainly weren't bottles of water available for sale at the state fair or Fur Rondy; maybe you could get a paper cup (meant for soda pop) and fill it with water. Wikipedia says that "The [global] rate of [bottled water] consumption more than quadrupled between 1990 and 2005." I haven't yet read Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water by Peter Gleick, but I gather that it chronicles the change from the water fountains of my childhood to the water bottles of today.
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I'm intrigued and bemused that Masters seems to presently hold a significant percentage of the Robotech fanfic loaded to the AO3. Masters was always my own least favorite (among chapters of a dearly beloved story). Maybe I need to rewatch and reread to see whether there's something new there since I've grown up and the world has changed... maybe there are emergent metaphors in there that resonate differently now.
;-) Maybe I like excuses for revisiting old beloved stories. ;-)
Yep, the little cultural things that each generation forgets to wonder whether they had a starting point, or have always been! The idea of paying for drinking water in the '80s (at least in Anchorage, in my family) would have been ludicrous, and there certainly weren't bottles of water available for sale at the state fair or Fur Rondy; maybe you could get a paper cup (meant for soda pop) and fill it with water. Wikipedia says that "The [global] rate of [bottled water] consumption more than quadrupled between 1990 and 2005." I haven't yet read Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water by Peter Gleick, but I gather that it chronicles the change from the water fountains of my childhood to the water bottles of today.