West of the Moon is Moving to the AO3
West of the Moon, a Lord of the Rings archive with gen and slash fanfiction, poetry, and filk, is being imported to AO3. Read more at https://otw.news/west-moon-b9dad
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The time is finally here after the long delay necessitated by the coronapocalypse. The domain is now safe and I will be sending out notifications to every e-mail in the database. Thank you ShadowFax8, the site’s original maintainer, for giving me a copy and permission to import and preserve it. Thank you to the Organization for Transformative Works for everything they do for fandom.
“What does this mean for creators who had work(s) on West of the Moon?
We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We’ll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.
All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.
Please contact Open Doors with your West of the Moon pseud(s) and email address(es), if:
1. You’d like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive 2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself. 3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet). 4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3. 5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name. 6. You have any other questions we can help you with.
Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your West of the Moon account, please contact Open Doors and we’ll help you out. (If you’ve posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they’re yours, that’s great; if not, we will work with the West of the Moon mods to confirm your claims.)
Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on
importing your works to the AO3 adding your works to the new collection West of the Moon If you still have questions…
If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.”
-- https://otw.news/west-moon-b9dad
“Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.... The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.”
Excerpt from “On Fairy-Stories” by J.R.R. Tolkien
-- https://archive.org/details/tales-from-the-perilous-realm-roverandom-j-r-r-tolkien
“And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
Excerpt from The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I, Lines 151-157 by Edward de Vere (1550-1604) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
-- https://www.bartleby.com/46/5/41.html
