Oh, I do want all the Cooper/Albert in the entire world, I DO I DO I DO! *makes grabby hands* (Though yes, in this particular instance, I was aiming more for a personal rec list here than a List Of Everything. ;) Guess I should have made that clearer from the start - I probably wasn't. And anyway, I didn't leave out that many, and none at all from the more recent batch. It was mainly that reccing the whole Bookhouse Boys archive seemed overdoing it a bit, so I've been more picky with those. :) )

there has been a lot of new activity/fans in the fandom! i mean. myself included. i wonder why that is.

Well, when it comes to fanfic, it could be some type of snowball effect - for myself, it was this fic (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/31761) in last year's Yuletide (which was recced all over the place, I had the impression) that triggered a writing spree, so maybe some other people had the same reaction. About the fandom in general being more popular - I honestly couldn't say.