Happy to see you back in action and (I hope) in better health! Unfortunately, what I have to report is somewhat less auspicious: astrobandit’s disappeared from AO3. Some of their fics can be accessed via the Wayback Machine, including scapegoat (#20057767; LWJ investigates rumored Yiling Laozu hauntings during the Thirteen Years) and contraindications of truth (#19882903; JL performs Empathy on WN.)
2/2: Also gone from AO3 and Tumblr are Shinocchi’s MDZS fics; the details can be found at Fanlore, since the last thing you need is my dragging that whole wankapalooza into your literary salon. Again, some of their works (including An Eye for an Eye, #16650445, Ghost of the Past—#16222265, and Prayer for the Dead—#1189426), are accessible via the Wayback Machine.
Oh, dear. :(
I have these, which I've recced and saved as PDFs. (Leave an email in the comments if you want one for your private use only.)
I just made a post about losing authors. Again. Here.
ETA: astrobandit’s and the clash of blades, it’s a greeting (20301244) is on the Wayback Machine; you’ll need to add ?view_full_work=true to the URL to get all three chapters. mediator (#20589404) is also on the Wayback Machine.
also:
there are no stupid questions (#21031274; Modern AU. WWX—to housemate WQ’s annoyance—likes to be a troll at the grocery store by asking people to help him find the flute aisle. One evening he meets a handsome white-clad stranger who calls his bluff...) It’s on the Wayback Machine, and the 1/14/2021 capture even has a functioning download link!
There is further discussion about this work and author’s others (all deleted) on THIS POST [I fixed the link!]- to which @cqlfic has added many wayback links to lost astrobandit works.
