Archive of Our Own

[lizardbeth]

I have an invite for anyone who'd like to join the Open Beta phase for An Archive of Our Own , a fan-run, all-pairings, all-fanfic archive run by the Organization of Transformative Works.

I personally dislike how fanfic has become centralized on LJ -- LJ is okay for posting fic, but it's terrible for finding fic, especially if you get into an "old" fandom. And ff.net is problematic because of their restrictions (among other things - but no open archive will get rid of the bad fic). So AO3 has started to create an archive more friendly to Fandom (as a whole - all of fandom, including Bandom, RPF, Adult-ratings, etc). Also, Yuletide will be moving to AO3 this year to accommodate all the newbies.

So, if you haven't yet, you should go check out the archive. It's building slowly. And if you're a writer looking for a place to archive, in a place that wants to keep it safe from take-downs and C&D letters and busybody parents who think sex in fic is of the devil, then let me know.

ETA: Sorry, sleeping East Coasters. Taken! But do check out the archive, it's pretty cool.

Comments

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

I'd love the invite if I managed to answer first. :-)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

Done if you gimme an email addy. AO3 needs more Sinclair/Valen fic. *nods* :)

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

atlanteanazar [at] gmail

Whee!

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

There, now I feel like I've helped out a fellow West Coast-er! It should be on its way. Let me know if it doesn't show up!

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

It worked. YAY! :-D I'll start uploading tomorrowish. Tonight I just bookmarked stuff.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I signed up for an account! It really doesn't take long if you're waitlisted -- I got mine within a couple of days. I still have to upload all my fic, but I'm excited about finally having it all in one place. :)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

oh yay! It's very exciting! If, somewhat intimidating to realize how much I have left to move. And I'm not even the most prolific person out there! yikes. The ff.net grabber is decent, but the LJ URL grab requires a lot of clean up.

Good to know the wait list is so quick.

[lucyparavel.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm so sorry but I got stuck at school all day today! This is the first chance I've had to get online and I can't log into gmail from work. Hope you get this from here. Bah, I'm bummed! I was really looking forward to having time to get some things done at home and write. But at least it's money! Talk to you later today or tonight, I hope.