#fictionalley

Toastystats: Open Doors and FictionAlley

The OTW recently announced the import of FictionAlley to AO3 through the Open Doors project. Open Doors helps preserve fanworks by (among other things) importing external fanwork archives as collections on AO3. I was interested in the newsletter statement, “With approximately 29,000 works imported so far, it is Open Doors' largest import yet”—it made me curious about all of the work Open Doors has done over the years.

Guys.

GUYS.

I just found out someone created an unofficial archive for FictionAlley, the former Harry Potter fanfic platform!

I really though it was gone for good  (though I’d saved a couple of favorite stories), and even though it’s a little harder to search in some ways (you can only search by title, not by anything in the summary), I’m still so excited to know it’s there!

Like, I spent so many late nights reading fic on there in middle school and high school. Like, before Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows came out, so people were still using fics to theorize what was going to happen. 

Not to mention, so many hilarious MST fics where the Golden Trio or the Marauders read the books (anyone else remember those?!)

This Week In Fandom History → June 2001

SQUEE! This year marks the 10th annual San Diego Comic Con Harry Potter fandom panel and we have some amazing participants this year, including  @ebonyteach ( Prof. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas) of @universityofpennsylvania, fan-film-maker Justin Zagri, @the-real-team-starkid‘s Nick Lang, Adrienne Alwag-Aipia of the Los Angeles Dumbledore’s Army, David Carpenter of the PUFFS play, someone from @usquidditch and many more!

I Met You On LJ → Episode #040: An Unbelievable Series of Words

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/msscribe/

Unfortunately, the age limit makes these pages impossible to archive using archive.org or even archive.is. I’m going to just have to download the html...

Tbh, msscribe’s stories aren’t all that interesting. They aren’t funny like My Immortal, and they were never popular or genre-defining the way Cassandra Claire’s stories were. They’re just... harry potter fanfiction, for better or for worse.