Hi! I think some wires might have gotten slightly crossed here. HD Erised is still an ongoing yearly December exchange fest, continuing the tradition not of Big Bang but of HD Hols, a Christmas exchange fest that ran until (I believe) 2012. Was there an original Erised that preceded the current iteration (since 2013 I thought)?
That said, this DID make me look into the earliest Erised fics and yeah... actually I am having a hard time finding them archived on LJ, dreamwidth, or here on Ao3 (earliest available anywhere being 2014). I wouldn't have thought I was forgetting any platforms, but was there originally an independent website? This was more than a decade, several fandoms, and a case of covid ago, for better or worse...
(And of course, thank you as always Open Doors! Preserving old fandom is so important! Not only so I can remember what actually happened... 😅)
The challenge I was asking about is this one, already logged on Fanlore, and the site links are dead— even the comment lj which IS live just links out to the dead site :( https://fanlore.org/wiki/Harry/Draco_Big_Bang:_Erised
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