#fandom archiving

[aurorlaura]

Great big OFMD 2 Ep 5 spoiler

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Have the kiss slowed down then, sluts

And this version

PS

BTW

[mayonayys]

Masterlist for my Love and Deepspace widescreen screenshots. Completed, Backlog, and Upcoming all listed. Feel free to send me requests for particular kindled or story moments. + im taking requests for hair glitch use, otherwise screenshots will be with my MCs hair or default hair.

Uploaded:

Caleb: Farspace Bloomfall Caleb: Farspace Deprivation Zayne: Fragrant Possession Zayne: Business Trip

Awaiting upload:

Caleb: Clearwind Glide (im waiting for them to take the mature content label off this one...) Zayne: Cozy Afternoon Zayne: Engraved Affection Zayne: Promise Everlasting Zayne: Forever Sealed Zayne: Gentle Twilight Zayne: Hidden Motive Zayne: Everlasting Wish Zayne: Runaway Waves

Screenshots needed:

Caleb

Loneroad Together Loneroad Unreturned Floating Floraletter Wayward Wonderland Passionate Overload Endless Summer Exclusive Aftertaste Painful Signal Tainted Cuts Hidden Waves No-Return Night Yearly Nostalgia Bond: Rain's Embrace

Xavier

Starfall Sactuary (Mos acct) Inflorescence Imprints Precious Bonfire No Restraint Lightseeking Obsession Lightseeking Shadowrend Nightvow Mooncurse Nightvow Requiem Feverish Attempts Fragment of Time Coolsplash Soak Outcast's Voyage Offbeat Track Between Stars Fluffy Trap Bond: Plushie Go Go Bond: A Night of Warmth

Rafayel

Blossoms (Ceia acct) Your Fragrance Before Sunrise (Ceia acct) Heatwave Torrent (Nym acct) Bond: Nightly Stroll Bond: Ebb and Flow

Sylus

Crimson Departure Crimson Rapture Lost Oasis Alternative Darkborne (Mos acct) Captivating Lesson (Mos acct) Captivating Flavor Lovespeed Ride (Mos acct) Night of Secrecy Within Reach (Mos acct) Immobilized Magnum Opus (Mos acct) Nightplumes (Nym acct) Bond: Midnight Stealth

Zayne

Iceborn Warmth (Mos acct) Chilling Crescendo Diviner's Stillness Diviner's Hym Bond: A Frozen Promise Bond: Nostalgic Sweetness

i think im missing a few on my sylus list, ill get around to updating this properly eventually

My MC notes

My main MC is Ritsu and she has grey hair, usually short, but sometimes in the hair from Caleb's wedding banner. (I may start using the hair from Sylus' vamp myth too). I'll use her with all of the LIs. I have MCs specific for Zayne, Rafayel, and Sylus too. For some of them, I have memories on their accts that aren't on my main. I'll occasionally use them for screenshots.

[changeling-droneco]

God actually archiving all rooster teeth and achievement hunter stuff is going to be a fucking pain that’s so many fucking videos

My advice as someone who spends a LOT of time doing shit like this? Team up, make groups around like minded archivists and then divide and conquer. Assign people to specific series. The sheer amount of space a single person would need for all of it is infeasible unless you have a lot of extra storage installed in your computer, the best tactic is going to be to divide it up in a coordinated effort.

[starrybouquet]

I've gotten nothing else done today but I am happy to report that after trying to get this done for YEARS, all 709 of my public AO3 bookmarks are now in Calibre!

I am now slowly making progress on the 1100+ fics I've saved on FFN *winces*

If you're interested in doing this, please lmk! I'm sure there are tutorials online already but I do have some hacks to streamline stuff as well.

[our-hands-mean-death]

I keep seeing stuff about FFN going around, but in the last couple days, their twitter has been updated to give more details about what's been up. According to the thread, general upkeep fell behind due to covid. This led to server issues among other things. They say they'll be dedicating resources to improving everything. I think the most important facts to keep in mind are:

They performed a deprecation of old server hardware on 22 September, 2022

They improved their hardware monitoring system to prevent a repeat of last week

They have planned site changes for Q4 2022 to modernize the website

They're doubling their database capacity

The domain is paid out through September 2028

The last two bolded ones are especially important because that's expensive. Like, really, really expensive. The first time I saw how much my company pays for servers, I felt dizzy. And that domain name being what it is is small in comparison to hosting/server costs, but it's still like $25k minimum paid in advance

That's not the kind of investment of time or money a company would put into a dying site. So basically, you don't need to worry that it will be abandoned any time soon

[luulapants]

Alright, I know the Heroes and original X-men movie fandoms are pretty long-deceased, but I have gone through my Livejournal stomping grounds, contacting writers and asking them to back up their fics in case we lose LJ for good. I was able to find some but not all. I know this is a long shot, but if anyone has a lead on or contact info for the following authors, please let me and/or them know!

carmexgirl (from the Heroes fandom - she’s on AO3 with no contact info and has written Destiel more recently. I believe she uses the same name for twitter)

pupnamedpeter (from the Heroes fandom - also wrote for Glee?)

lux_apollo (from the X-Men fandom, wrote pyro/iceman)

ashedrake (from the Heroes fandom)

ashe_frost/verde_speaks (from the X-Men fandom, but also wrote drarry that was very popular)

worblehat (from the X-Men fandom, wrote pyro/iceman)

kuria dalmatia (from the X-Men fandom, went into Criminal Minds. As a sidenote, the entire archive for her epic Fundamental Differences of Experience series has vanished, so if anyone has a copy, lmk!)

blackeyedwicca (from X-Men, but was multi-fandom. Their ff.net account is discontinued.)

RaiTear (from the X-Men fandom)

I am backing up personal copies of some fics, but archive.org doesn’t work with the age filters, and there’s just way too much fic to go through it all on my own.

[seas-of-ios]

CS Pacat’s Writing Techniques Masterpost

Pacat’s website recently got an overhaul and they deleted a series of essays about writing she wrote in 2015 (including my favorite meta ever written on narrative tension). Thankfully, they are all saved on the Wayback Machine!

Find them HERE