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featherwizard) wrote2014-08-14 02:15 pm
featherwizard) wrote2014-08-14 02:15 pm
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Internet is not static, news at 11
So I'm going through my bookmarks, looking to re-read old favorites. Only they aren't up.
Currently I'm on a Highlander kick. Problem is that the show ended more than a decade ago, and most of the fanfiction was written in the early days of internet fandom. So I'm trawling through mailing list archives, individual author sites, and brushing off my dusty Archive.org skills. But some people just aren't online now, despite all I can do.
Sandra McDonald, Sleeps with Coyotes, Dargelos are all offline. Sylvia Volk, Tessa Rae and the taterville.com crowd are slowly putting their stuff up on Archive Of Our Own (very slowly).
There's just no way to get some of this stuff anymore, and the stuff that is still available is often an uphill battle. So I'm resorting to ficsearch communities and asking friends. This is - likely - years of my life, just kind of gone up in smoke. Darn it.
TL;DR I'm donating to both Archive Of Our Own and Archive.org this month. Thank goodness for volunteers who are willing to save the internet in case someone needs it. If anyone has any fics by Cicequi/Sleeps with Coyotes, I'd love it if you could let me know?
Currently I'm on a Highlander kick. Problem is that the show ended more than a decade ago, and most of the fanfiction was written in the early days of internet fandom. So I'm trawling through mailing list archives, individual author sites, and brushing off my dusty Archive.org skills. But some people just aren't online now, despite all I can do.
Sandra McDonald, Sleeps with Coyotes, Dargelos are all offline. Sylvia Volk, Tessa Rae and the taterville.com crowd are slowly putting their stuff up on Archive Of Our Own (very slowly).
There's just no way to get some of this stuff anymore, and the stuff that is still available is often an uphill battle. So I'm resorting to ficsearch communities and asking friends. This is - likely - years of my life, just kind of gone up in smoke. Darn it.
TL;DR I'm donating to both Archive Of Our Own and Archive.org this month. Thank goodness for volunteers who are willing to save the internet in case someone needs it. If anyone has any fics by Cicequi/Sleeps with Coyotes, I'd love it if you could let me know?
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And I only recently read Sylvia Volk's wonderful stuff, which is up here: http://members.shaw.ca/sylviavolk/Index.htm
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I did find Sylvia Volk's site and actually downloaded as much as I could. It's suffering from link rot, unfortunately. It is wonderful, isn't it? Her AO3 profile is https://archiveofourown.org/users/Sylviavolk2000/pseuds/Sylviavolk2000. It's missing most of the fics, but there's a least a few there.
I've contacted SWC's spambot DW and left a comment, so hopefully I'll be added. I don't see Highlander listed in the interests there, and the journal does say that it doesn't have all the older fics, but hopefully there's a least some up there.
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Oh, sorry, I just meant her fic journal is another way to contact her - I don't think she has highlander stuff up there. I was able to get around Sylvia's link rot with archive.org, so I emailed those as well. Now back to reading Sleeps with Coyotes' "Still Heart"!