Greetings Rei friends. OP here. I've been doing some digging to distract myself from life and come across some early sequences of threads dedicated to Rei that predate this general's first thread from March 29, 2013. The two sequences of most significance are:
Sept 2012:
https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/1903076Oct 2012:
https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/1924579Dec 2012:
https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/1949935Dec 2012:
https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/1956929Feb 2013:
https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/1981496I've found others, such as a few joint Asuka/Rei threads, and I've now added all of these to the OP PasteBin for future reference. And the discovery of old.sage.moe may yet yield much more. If any very oldfags also lurk here, please, please share any archival material you may have.
But I posit to the thread: should one or both of these sets of threads be included in the general numbering of future posts? In this case, these would retroactively become the first threads of this general, which would make the next thread after this 215th one be, instead of the 216th:
- the 218th (if we accept only the first group of two);
- the 219th (if we accept only the second group of three); or
- the 221st (if we accept both groups, five total).
I emphasize that, really, all these numbers, including the current enumeration of 215, are somewhat arbitrary, but there is a definite, unbroken lineage from this 215th thread all the way back to #001 on March 29, 2013 (there is a bit of iffiness in one section, but it is workable). Rei is, of course, eternal, too, but we humans love to categorize, so this is important.
I open this to discussion.
