Fanwork Archiving

[extrapenguin]

In light of recent OTW revelations (full receipts at synonymous, tl;dr is their Trust & Safety practices are a nightmare and their response to a whistleblower is to have Legal commit defamation by implication heavily implying that volunteer was behind the CSEM spam attacks last year):

satsuma posted about posting, sharing, and saving fic outside AO3; the most useful might be melannen's How to Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive (using NeoCities), and nianeya's AO3 works downloader (apparently it'll page through all subpages automatically? neat)

I might spend the weekend scraping the HTML of my works from AO3 and then making my own NeoCities page – tei has even set up a fanfiction webring! – as a form of participating in a past I skipped over. I might also slide into other applicable archives. (Melannen is archiving small book fandom fic! I have a bunch that fit the bill.)

ETA: I made one! Extremely bare, but upcoming.

Comments

[trobadora]

I really love that we're reinventing webrings, OMG.

as a form of participating in a past I skipped over

Hee! Great way to put it. I never had a website back when that was the thing, but I'm feeling very nostalgic over it all as well. *g*

[extrapenguin]

I had a very casual non-fannish website that absolutely no-one ever looked at (well, I guess it was the filehost for the one time I wanted to link someone to a document I'd written?), so I'm not new to manually writing HTML and am in the sweet spot of being nostalgic for the thing without having any inconvenient memories of the real era.