Chat corner, AO3-less

[annathecrow]

Hello,

welcome to another chat corner, where we talk about anything Star Wars that wouldn't make a whole post. Which, a reminder! This community is open to posting by any member - if you have something that would make a whole post, then go ahead!

How are you dealing with our unplanned No AO3 November? Did it change how much SW fic you consume?

And do you know any non-AO3 Star Wars fic archives? Or, do you perhaps have your own fic on a personal site? (smallweb, f-yeah...)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I do not know any SW specific archives, though I would mention that fancake is having an AO3-less theme for this month's recs. So perhaps some new things could be found that way.

As I use an eReader, I download all fics I read and so have various titles stored up. I also have several Han Solo pro-novels on it which I have yet to get through because I have found them less than engrossing. Perhaps I'll get through some this month!

[mergatrude]

The Star Wars - All Media Types tag at SquidgeWorld has 1,116 works.

I have a few invite codes if anyone wants one.

[moreflamethrowers]

Oh, if you have a spare invite code I would love one! Tried to go visit some old faves at squidgeworld yesterday and was devastated to find all the super old stuff got account locked over the summer. The invite queue seems to be (very understandably) several days out.

[mergatrude]

PM me your email address and I will send you one. :)

[havendale]

I’ve been poking around the Wayback Machine reading old Geocities-era fic – my plan is to just pretend it’s twenty years ago for the next few weeks. (Though I do miss AO3’s searchability/filterability/not having blinking yellow text on a pink background.)

I’m also feeling somewhat relieved about regularly archiving all my fic (including my Star Wars stuff) on my Neocities page – it’s comforting to have a backup.

[independence1776]

In the immediate post-Prequel years, I posted my fic on theforce.net's fanfic forum, but all of that stuff got truncated when the forums changed forum software (seriously, all posts got cut off at something like 2000 characters and while they promised the data was still there and would be restored, it never happened). I managed to reconstruct my few fics from the Wayback Machine to post them on AO3. I have been meaning to crosspost everything to Dreamwidth but never got around to it.

All that to say: while I haven't participated there for over fifteen years, there still is a tiny but active ficwriting community on those boards. There's also ff.net, which I am not desperate enough to go back to. I don't know of any extant SW-only fic archives but this had made me miss even the option of having a fandom-specific archive.

[dirty_diana]

I visited the theforce.net forums a few days ago, and found fic posting there ongoing, which was nice and nostalgic.

[moreflamethrowers]

I have never found much in the way of non-AO3 hubs for star wars, even though I know they've got to be out there since it's such an old fandom. I've never gone seriously hunting yet, I've remained too satisfied by the constant flow on AO3. Interested to see these mentions of theforce.net, I'll have to check it out.

I was kind of in between tag dives on AO3 anyways, so I was in a low fic-reading period, fortunately. I feel like in a weird way the outage has boosted my fic reading a little since I'm seeing more rec posts floating around on tumblr (in cases where I can pull the fic on the wayback machine, anyways, haha). Made me realize how much the culture of reccing has died, I do hope that's something that can come back. I used to love to make rec posts myself and I've fallen off from doing that over the years for one reason or another.

[dreaminghour]

I joined SqWA as others have, but I also joined Ad Astra, so I've been supplementing with Star Trek fic instead. 😂