#forever rec

[allegra-writes]

OMGOMGOMG ITS BACK!!!!

[sweetfogarty]

After completely forgetting about these little recommendations I’d been doing I’m back and this week I’m recommending my four favourites @southsidewrites, @worriestothewind, @rivendell101 and @sweetpeasbabydoll for all their hard work in setting up and running the blog @southsidearchive, as well as the corresponding Southside discord server.

Blog type: @southsidearchive is an archive of Southside-centric Riverdale fan fiction, with 800+ fics currently added to their collection and more on the way. With the ability to submit your own fics to the Archive, to simply browse and read your about your favourite character(s) or to participate in upcoming events being hosted by the blog, it is attempting to revitalise and support those writers and creators who have and are continuing to make content for our favourite Southsiders.

Blog tag: Tag ‘southsidearchive’ on your posts in the first five tags of the original post to submit your fics and ensure they are added to the Archive. Please note: The length of the southsidearchive queue is not short, and so you may not see your fic be reblogged straight away, but rest assured it will be reblogged.

Discord type: The Southside Archive Discord Server is a server dedicated to building a tighter-knit community within for Southside lovers and creators and is currently home to over 60 members. With daily and weekly writing challenges as well as writing sprints, a points-based reward system, channels for advice on both fics and graphics, a community of people who are available to beta-read and a growing family of Southside bots ready for you to play with, the discord server truly is a place for community and support within our fandom.

Discord link: If you are interested in joining the Southside Archive Discord Server, you can do so by clicking HERE.

Recommendatory note: The sheer amount of work that these four have put into the @southsidearchive blog and the discord server is truly staggering and completely understated. 

Since setting up the blog and the server, all four of these ladies have been responsible for making it what it is today by reblogging entire masterlists from creators to add to the Archive, trawling through tags to find new fics and new authors, making icons, banners and promotional posts, coding bots and planning fandom-wide events, to name only a few of the things they do on a daily basis. 

Everything they have done, they’ve done out of the goodness of their heart and they’ve dedicated so much of their own time to making both the blog and the discord server the best it can be. I’m so proud of these ladies and everything they have achieved in the short amount of time they’ve been working on this project, and I can’t wait to see how successful they’ll be. It’s a pleasure working on this alongside them, and even more of a pleasure being their friend. 

I truly believe that what they’ve done so far has made a huge difference to the Southside fandom, and they should be so proud of themselves.

Becca, Alisha, Liz and Jes; I hope you know how truly appreciated you all are in this fandom. What you’ve done so far has been absolutely unreal! You are some of the most dedicated and lovely bloggers on here, and your hard work in supporting the fandom with your own work, in addition to this new blog, is not given enough praise. I am a firm believer that without the four of you, the Southside fandom wouldn’t be a fraction of what it is right now. You are unsung heroes, and I love and appreciate each of you so much more than a simple Riverdale recommendation post could ever convey.

Make sure to check out all of these ladies in their own right, in addition to checking out the @southsidearchive blog and the discord server!

[sippingchai]

Do you know who wrote the imagine control?

That masterpiece was written by Bee. The fic that tipped me over the edge for sub!shawn and I’m forever grateful lmao. Sadly, she’s not around here anymore but that fic is legit my favorite one like…ever. 

Control

[sesquip-edality]

Magic. Spell after spell, upon spell— Rowan threw up her hands. “This,” she said, “this is what I hate about magic!” She rose abruptly, knocking over her chair, took two angry steps away, one back, and stood, dithering in frustration. “Every time one talks about magic, it’s all ifs and maybes— it’s all guesses, and guesses built on other guesses”— she made sharp, agitated gestures— “and hypotheses based purely upon guesses with anything, anything at all, possible— there are no parameters!” She flung out both arms, spoke to the world at large. “There have to be parameters!” She leaned on the table, spoke urgently. “Anything that happens,” she said— addressing Steffie only because she must address someone, and Zenna already knew these things— “any event, process, initiation, conclusion, any occurrence at all, must take place within a framework of delimited possibility. Reality is not infinitely fluid; if it were, the world would be a very different place than it is. Magic does have parameters."

Rosemary Kirstein, The Lost Steersman