featherwizard

Friending and Personal Stuff

Please feel free to friend me! I may or may not friend back depending on how active I am at the moment.

I tend to make public updates about my life, and set them private a few days later. I want to let people know how I'm doing, but I'm not going to leave everything hanging around the internet forever.

Recs
Everything I rec, here or on rec communities, I have a saved copy of (barring harddrive failure or other catastrophes). If you want a copy, feel free to ask and I may be able to help you. If the fic was given to me specifically under a no-sharing agreement I won't share it, but otherwise I'm happy to forward things.

I will not remove links from recs, so even if the site is currently offline you might be able to try archive.org.

I'm also happy to help if you want to start building your own offline collection of fic (hint: search for Calibre eBooks to get started).

My favorite Lord of the Rings archive is closing. For anyone who doesn't know yet (probably quite a few people), Henneth Annun is one of the oldest and most influential Lord of the Rings archives. It's being forced to close due to repeated server hacks. Hopefully all of the fics can be transferred to AO3 as part of the Open Doors project.

If you know anyone who has fics on HASA, please let them know! If you like any fics on HASA, please download them now! Fanfiction Downloader is a standalone program and a Calibre plugin that can download from HASA and turn the fics into ebooks.

Relevant links:
https://hasalj.livejournal.com/113641.html#cutid1
https://silwritersguild.livejournal.com/245284.html

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?