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honestalice in spnstoryfinders

Anyone know what happened to this fic or author

Jan 23, 2015 13:21

Hello

I was reading a fic called "No Such Thing As True Love" by TheCreator on Archive of Our Own website. The author regularly updated and has last posted chapter 29 on 11/29/14. Then the updates email I usually get just stopped. The author regularly updated once a week at least. No warning of any kind to leave or stop. The story and author is just ( Read more... )

story length: long, genre: slash, au: boys aren't hunters, genre: angst, pairing: sam/gabriel, story length: wip, character: sam, character: dean, !author search, !specific fic, pairing: dean/castiel

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safiyabat January 23 2015, 21:44:43 UTC

I didn't know that they disappeared from AO3 but I do remember that the fic came to a conclusion. I don't know if someone else can find you a copy or a link somewhere else.

honestalice January 23 2015, 22:13:07 UTC

Yeah it just completely disappeared. I have the update emails and was waiting for some free time to read. I clicked the chapter link in email and the story and author were just gone.

casey679 January 26 2015, 09:39:29 UTC

I have no answer, but I hope someone else does. I loved that story, and if you just want to know how it ends, I can summarize it for you.

honestalice January 26 2015, 19:33:14 UTC

Darn I too hope someone finds it or finds out what happened to the author. I also hope the author is OK. that was a lot of work they had. I definitely would rather finish reading the author's work. It would definitely not be the same for me if someone summarized it and I miss all the awesome details. I kept up with that author's work for a long time.

casey679 January 26 2015, 19:51:27 UTC

I do wonder if the author decided to try to turn it into an original work and publish it. :/ But I agree, it's definitely better to read the original piece than hear a summary.

honestalice January 26 2015, 19:48:49 UTC

I also seem to not be the only one looking for this story or trying to find out what happened. In my google searches I have come across many people giving it RECs but none of the links work anymore or comments about people trying to find where it went. Such a bummer.

illyria934 January 26 2015, 20:15:53 UTC

Great, now that I have been searching for this fic, hoping to be successful in finding a link for you, I feel a desperate need to read it, too. How have I not come across this before??? It sounds amazing. I'll keep looking but the chance of finding it doesn't seem good. I think if a fic is not yet finished (or has just been finished) not that many people bother to save a copy and are instead waiting for it to be completed.

Maybe I Solved This! leviturntables October 24 2024, 18:26:07 UTC

It's almost a decade later, but I'm doing research on this fic, trying to find any info I can about it for a video I'm making. Nov 4th, 2014, I saw this fic, read the summary and first chapter, and realized instantly that it was a 1-for-1 copy of a Larry Stylinson pic I read (what the video is about). I commented this to the author and got a fairly passive-aggressive response, but obviously, it's been almost 10 years, so there was no trace of the title or author name, just the response in my inbox. I was hunting on the Wayback Machine for any proof this fic existed to prove that it was real, and finally, I found it!!! Copying the synopsis led me to this thread, and I'm probably gonna go down a rabbit hole trying to find any element of this fic to compare it to the Larry one.

That being said, I assume that (and maybe this is self-centered) my comment about this being a stolen fic in some way caused the author to go scorched Earth and delete everything a few weeks later. In my recent research, this fic was posted a year after the ( ... )