Dead Dolphin and Flogged Horse YahooGroup Zip File Backup

[paradisekendra]

Dear L&M Fans,

Ta da!  Here is a zip file backup of all the email messages and files from the Dead Dolphin and Flogged Horse YahooGroup!  Download at will!  I have to give the best of thanks to the PGOffline software that made this 11th hour backup possible!  It was a true life saver!  Anyway, please download and enjoy all of these great Logan and

Comments

[roguelotus]

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you for doing this. It would be a terrible shame for all this Rogan fan history to be erased forever! I came along too late in the game to be a part of this group. Are the fics all within messages sent between members, or are some of them freestanding files?

[paradisekendra]

Whew! Long work week (understaffed, no surprise!) so I knew I had to post this before I went back 'cause I was gonna be slammed. *pants* lol. Anyways, yay, you're welcome! Right now, the fics are all within the messages sent between members. The next step will be to save them into individual fan fiction documents. Some of them have already been saved into individual story files and are posted at these links:

Media Fire links to batches of L&M stories collected by various fans:
Stories collected by Karen Mora
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/xvd9linrvz9yj/W%26R_FanFiction_Collection_By_Karen

Stories collected by paradisekendra
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/f3539rgiuxt1p/W%26R_Fan_Fiction

More to come!

[paradisekendra]

I came along in like...late 2002 (after the first movie) so I missed a lot of the original burst of L&M fanfiction, and I missed the first fandom war that ended up creating the "split" between the two worlds of Logan and Marie fans. Ironically this fandom split is actually what contributed to saving these fan fiction stories. It was a pain in the ass at the time, all the drama, but if the DDFH had not been created in the way it was, a HIDDEN group with an intentionally strange name that you would never associate with Wolverine and Rogue fan fiction, a group you had to get approval to join, etc., we would have lost so many stories. It's funny how things work out

[dutchxfan]

You know, reading all this makes me roll my eyes again. I came into this fandom a bit late as well, so the 'groups' were already formed. I really had no idea about all the drama. I joined the public group and happily posted away. I befriended people left and right, not knowing or being aware they belonged to different groups and not knowing about all the drama. I learned about the 'hidden' group eventually and joined that one as well

[roguelotus]

Oh my goodness, I find all of this history fascinating, and yet crazy. Well, either way, I am glad that there are people who stuck it out despite all the drama, and people who care enough to preserve it all and keep things going. <3

[roguelotus]

So cool to hear about all the history of the L&M fandom! And also so cool to hear that some of the authors became published. Really glad that this private group was able to preserve the stories that got deleted elsewhere!

[paradisekendra]

Yes! And overall it was a wonderful experience. There were a few people to whom the drama was specifically aimed at and I know for them, it was extra draining and ridiculous, but even for them, when I talk to them today, they still say there is no other fandom that they ever had the passion for like this one.