#tmntrescue

LAUNCHING THE TURTLE RESCUE ARCHIVE!

TURTLE RESCUE: Mission Livejournal CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!

TMNT Fans Saving Our Fandom History From Dying Websites. Our 1st Mission? LiveJournal

Learn More & Sign Up @ Our Volunteer Archivist Community: https://turtlerescue.dreamwidth.org

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have had a fandom since 1984. We've got 42 years of fan works, communities, and friendships--and so much of what's online from our earlier days is in danger of being deleted. Our Volunteer Archivists will visit LiveJournal TMNT fan sites, save the materials as a snapshot of history in PDF format, then upload the files along with credits & metadata to our Turtle Rescue Archive.

Our volunteer archivists are building an online TMNT Fandom Museum for every Turtle Fan to enjoy.

No money. No ads. Easy opt-out for any creator who does not want their works archived. . . .

You've probably got some basic questions about TURTLE RESCUE. We've got some answers!

From our TURTLE RESCUE FAQ - General Qs

+ What is Turtle Rescue?

Turtle Rescue is an unpaid group of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans working to archive TMNT fandom content from various unstable websites before the modern web deletes or damages our fandom history beyond retrieval.

We’re building an online museum of fandom history at Turtle Rescue Archive.

. . . . Would you like to participate in some TMNT Fandom Archeaology? We could use some more Archivists. Sign up to Volunteer here!

From our TURTLE RESCUE FAQ - General Qs

+ Why do Turtle Rescue?

TMNT fandom is 42 years old and made of fans of all ages since 1984. So many fan stories, characters, art, & communities have come & gone in those four decades.

The Internet connects TMNT fans, but every time some website fails, our fandom loses 100s of works, 1,000s of hours of effort, & countless chances to share w/ each other as fellow fans.

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We lost mature works when fanfiction.net deleted 1000s of stories appropriately tagged for adult readers.

We lost hundreds of personal TMNT fan websites & webrings when Geocities shut down its 38 million personal webpages.

We lost whole communities when Yahoo Groups closed. TMNT fan groups were just some of the 10 million groups closed.

We’ve lost entire phpbb message boards and forums when hosting services ended. Imagine if Discord randomly deleted your servers.

LiveJournal, itself, already purged more than 500+ accounts during the censorship panic of StrikeThrough and BoldThrough. .

Now, new internet laws around the globe are endangering content of the wrong ratings, or in the wrong languages, or on the wrong websites.

And worse, after 42 years of TMNT fandom we’re starting to lose fan creators themselves. Cynlee, Winnychan, Milo, and many more are no longer with us.

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You may have never met them, but I assure you, they are your fandom friends. They wrote TMNT stories they would want shared with you. They posted them just for you. Newest fan to oldest, we’re all in this fandom together, under the same TMNT mutant mania. So why do Turtle Rescue?

To make an archive of everything we can save. Of everything we have done. Of everyone we have known. To join hands across 42 years to honor the hours writing, reading, drawing, RPing, and having fun with the people online who understood us best, those who shared the love we all feel for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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. Volunteer to help us save TMNT LiveJournal fan works & communities by signing up at our Turtle Rescue community on Dreamwidth HERE: turtlerescue.dreamwidth.org/1165.html No logins or accounts required to comment and join in! Happy to answer questions. :)

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From our TURTLE RESCUE FAQ - General Qs

+ What is the end Goal of Turtle Rescue?

There are an estimated 6,000 posts across 6 known TMNT LiveJournal communities and dozens of individual creator blogs. We're aiming to collect them all. Each collected LiveJournal post will have its own line in the final Turtle Rescue Archive Table on our website. The searchable Table of Posts will list each post’s blog of origin, LiveJournal username of the original poster, original fan creator (if different from the poster), original post URL, post title, fanwork title, any creator’s warnings, and link to the archived pdf. When we're finished, there will be a searchable archive website of all the fan works we know about from LiveJournal. It won't be the most fancy website, but we'll do our best. We aim to keep the website code simple and the file sizes small, so the project is more likely to be completed quickly and remain functional for years. . There WILL be an 'opt out' form available on the website for any creator who wants to remove their file(s) from our project after we've already posted. There is already an opt-out option on our Turtle Rescue Community page for folks who would like to preemptively keep our team from archiving their works. You do not need a Dreamwidth account to comment with a request. We will honor all original creators' requests.

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Would you like to participate in some TMNT Fandom Archeaology? We could use some more Archivists. Sign up to Volunteer here! You do not need a Dreamwidth account to sign up, comment, or ask questions.

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From our TURTLE RESCUE FAQ - General Qs

+ What are we saving?

We are saving PDFs of LiveJournal posts containing TMNT fan works: fanfic, fan art, fan discussion, and fan events. Our Archivist Volunteers will rescue posts from personal journals and TMNT fan communities one LiveJournal entry at a time. We've opted to use the PDF format so that we can best preserve all the art, text, links, comments, and creator credits associated with each post in a small and easily readable file.

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Would you like to participate in some TMNT Fandom Archeaology? We could use some more Archivists. Sign up to Volunteer here!

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