fandoms should never be allowed to die...

[kaydeefalls]

...because sometimes, when the nostalgia hits, you want to be able to go back and rediscover all your old favorite fics. And when you do that, you do NOT want to find that the fic archive you trusted most back in the old days is still technically a website but NO LONGER ARCHIVES FIC. And when you find an excellent links site, you realize that it hasn't been updated since 2001 and most of those links are now dead. And while Gossamer is still Gossamer, that means it's STILL GOSSAMER, which means that you have to sift through a hell of a lot of crap to find anything worth reading -- which is even harder than ever, because back when you were IN the X-Files fandom, you were THIRTEEN and had either a much higher crap tolerance level -- or, shall we say, slightly less refined tastes.

By which I mean, I'm craving old school post-ep X-Files fic from no later than season 5, and I can't. I just can't.

*weeps*

Comments

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

What about going to the first few pages of the fanfiction.net? Probably won't do much for crap levels, but there might be some people there might have X-Files fics on websites that are now updated for other things.

But it will be lots of searching, my condolences.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Ehm. FF.net frightens me. I used to get good reviews there, when I was thirteen. No, I do not trust ff.net. Alas.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is very much like that.
But:
I found the_dark_twin on ff.net. They also have honorh's Buffy stuff, and the most brilliant HP/Buffy and HP-first-war story. There are gems amongst the dust, pearls have been cast before the swine.
The only point in favour of it, really, is that it has everything, and sometimes it is the only place to start.

I still haven't gotten over my attachment to it entirely, despite how awful it most of the time and the fact that my web browser is no longer fully supported because I found it myself, on my own, before I had fully entered fandom. And it was still quite good then. Sigh.

[beizy.livejournal.com]

Lord, I remember Gossamer.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've even got a couple of fics archived there, unfortunately. I thought I'd purged all evidence of their existence from the internet years ago.

[semielliptical]

That's rather sad - I think for many fans X-Files died in a way that made them want to just give up on it and take down sites rather than maintain them out of fond nostalgia.

I don't know if this is helpful, but I have an embarrassingly large number of X-Files fics saved on my PC at home. If you're looking for particular stories or authors, I could check to see if I have any. I haven't looked in those folders for *years* but I'm a bit of a pack rat so I didn't delete much.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

It IS sad. Sure, the last few seasons were crap, but the old days! And some good fic came out of those last seasons, mainly by people desperately trying to fix the show.

Man, there are a couple of stories and authors I used to love, and I wish I could remember the titles or the authors' names. Thanks, but there's no way I'll still remember specifics. I used to have 'em all bookmarked, but then I got rid of that AOL account. Drat. I should have copied the links.

[sumbitch.livejournal.com]

here -- try my favorite story by my best girl (http://fluky.gossamer.org/cgi-bin/read.cgi?ln/MyBabyJustCaresForMe).

[sumbitch.livejournal.com]

crap, i forgot that you can't link directly to stories. it's been a while. try this instead. (ftp://ftp.gossamer.org/stories/m/MyBabyJustCaresForMe)

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Hmmm? *takes a look* ...

My favourite XF archive

[westmoon.livejournal.com]

Still up and running.

:)

http://home.earthlink.net/~iwonder/

Re: My favourite XF archive

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness! Thanks! I'll check it out later when I'm not supposed to be working. ;)

Re: My favourite XF archive

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

By the way? You ROCK. That site has been eating my spare time for a week now, and I'm not even through the A's.