a fandom whose fics are writ in water
I'm one of the weekly reccers at giles_fic_recs, and my focus is on reccing great older stories that newer arrivals to the fandom may never have read.
As I try to find stories to rec, I'm realizing how much the Buffyverse fandom has shrunk. For instance, the Better Buffy Fics archive is gone. The Giles Slash archive is gone. Many individual writers have disappeared without a trace, along with all their stories. And the big archives that remain (such as Unconventional Relationshippers) aren't being updated much because few writers post to mailing lists anymore.
It's a bit sad, really. And it's making me think about how dependent most of us, as fanfic readers and/or writers, are on LiveJournal. If fen do start migrating out of LJ at some point, whether because of TOS concerns or some other issue, I hate to think about how much fic, and how much fandom history, is simply going to be lost.
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As I try to find stories to rec, I'm realizing how much the Buffyverse fandom has shrunk. For instance, the Better Buffy Fics archive is gone. The Giles Slash archive is gone. Many individual writers have disappeared without a trace, along with all their stories. And the big archives that remain (such as Unconventional Relationshippers) aren't being updated much because few writers post to mailing lists anymore.
It's a bit sad, really. And it's making me think about how dependent most of us, as fanfic readers and/or writers, are on LiveJournal. If fen do start migrating out of LJ at some point, whether because of TOS concerns or some other issue, I hate to think about how much fic, and how much fandom history, is simply going to be lost.
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