pairing: f!shepard/garrus rating:teen words: 5443 chapters: 1/1 summary: set during the arrival mission in me2. fills in plot hole of why the normandy didn’t get shep off the asteroid sooner. also gave me an excuse for protective garrus. basically, shepard is alone fighting for her life and has a mortality crisis. and also more feelings between your fave turian and human afterward.
pairing: f!shepard/garrus rating: explicit words: 2866 chapters: 1/1 summary: Shepard and Garrus have each other for stress relief. They never talk about it afterwards - an unsaid agreement between the two of them. Just sex, nothing more, right?
pairing: f!shepard/victus rating: explicit words: 3913 chapters: 1/1 summary: after the events on tuchanka, primarch victus and commander shepard seek solace from the pressures of leadership in war.
pairing: kirk/spock rating: teen words: 3311 chapters: 1/1 tropes: kirk dies in into darkness summary: spock must live with the fact that he was unable to save him
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1874 chapters: 1/? tropes: gay disaster luke, single dad din, crack treated seriously, modern au summary: luke meets a total dilf at the laundromat one night and he just so happens to be wearing his beloved “i ❤️ dilfs” t-shirt
pairing: dinluke rating: mature words: 19908 chapters: 9/9 (complete) tropes: prince!luke, mand'alor!din, arranged marriage summary: Luke, Prince of Naboo, is in an arranged engagement that he doesn’t want with the Prince of Bespin, but instead, he would rather have a certain mandalorian. Specifically, the father of his student. More specifically, the Mand’alor.
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 6067 chapters: 2/? tropes: daddy kink, modern au summary: One summer day, a mysterious stranger from Anakin’s past shows up at the doorstep to Skywalker Ranch. Luke finds himself enthralled by this older man with a hidden past. Din Djarin is beyond handsome and seems to have eyes for only Luke when his father isn’t looking. This man could mean one of two things: pure bliss or heartbreak. Luke spends his summer of forbidden kisses and secret rendezvous hoping for the first.
pairing: dinluke rating: mature words: 7755 tropes: haunted dark saber, dark!din summary: din djarin starts hearing voices the more he uses the darksaber
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 3575 tropes: sith!luke, mand'alor din, bounty/bounty hunter summary: din takes up the bounty for a jedi, but that jedi is surprisingly persuasive (and hot)
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1527 tropes: mand'alor!din, jedi!luke, bounty/bounty hunter summary: mand’alor din tasks himself with killing sith lord skywalker, but instead, he finds himself faced with the biggest decision of his life
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1069 tropes: inappropriate use of a x-wing, hand jobs, cockpit sex summary: they’re hiding in the x-wing, but it’s definitely not meant for two people.
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1803 tropes: inappropriate use of a x-wing, semi-public sex, sarcastic droids summary: din surprises luke on coruscant and he acts on his promise
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1317 tropes: inappropriate use of a x-wing, helmetless din djarin , cockpit sex summary: they’re back in the x-wing, but this time with no interruptions
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 2070 tropes: sex in the millennium falcon, helmetless din djarin, space uber han solo summary: after a few too many drinks, luke and din call han to pick them up
pairing: dinluke rating: explicit words: 1632 tropes: inappropriate use of the n-1, helmetless din djarin summary: din comes back from a bounty hunt and luke desperately needs him
nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years
sorry professor I’m going to have to miss class today bc when I walked outside in the morning it was cold and sunny in a very specific way and suddenly I was struck with a nostalgia for years past so vivid and potent that I had to sit down
We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn’t an algorithm here you just make bad choices.
if i was best friends with an eldritch monster millions of years old that has witnessed the births and deaths of entire galaxies who then turns his back on all that because he thinks i’m the most beautiful thing creation has to offer i would simply kiss him. rip to dean winchester but i’m different
[ID: a picture of Rose Tyler from Doctor Who with a speech bubble above her head. End of ID]
Tali was now an admiral and that drove her to seek advice from the Commander even more than before. She had grown immensely from the young pilgrim she had been when they first met, but she still needed a shoulder to lean on every now and then, when the burdens placed on hers became too heavy to carry. Shepard would willingly help her in any way she could; Tali had become like a little sister to her.
A soft smile crept on the Commander’s features when she felt a pressure against her body. Neither said a word and she just let the young quarian rest against her, guessing that physical proximity and touching were probably common practices in the quarian culture, a way to express any sort of affection and to offer comfort. And knowing that Tali trusted her enough to ask her opinion about matters concerning the Migrant Fleet warmed her heart.
Lots of Reddit threads on FFN recently having trouble.
Last May there were posts about FFN being abandoned. Anyone have links to those?
Sometime last year there was someone on tumblr dot come going “I’ve seen this before, folks, FFN is going down”, but I think it’s been nearly a year since that
so FFN could have been abandoned for two years at this point, as long as they paid for hosting and domain name in big enough lumps, and it’ll go down in a dramatic fireball when one of those prepayments runs out
The fun thing is that at least for me, the tweets that both FFN and FictionPress list on their front page have timestamps that are like “10h ago”, but if you look actually through their twitter thread, those are actually from January 2021. I don’t know if the thing is actually actively dying, but it certainly isn’t very alive right now.
(As always: Always make sure you have a local backup of all your fanfics. You never know what might happen, to this or indeed any other fanfic site.)
I just hope that if it’s dying, the people in charge make sure to contact ArchiveOfOurOwn staff before it goes under, so that they can perform a mass fanfic rescue. I’m sure there are already plans drawn up for that eventuality, as ambitious as it would be.
Fanfictiondownloader.net will download any story from fanfiction.net into whatever format you like (PDF, epub, mobi, rtf, and several others). It won’t be an online archive available to fandom as a whole, but it means you can at least keep a personal copy for yourself.
I recommend doing this for any fic you like on ff.net.
Just in case.
As a Fandom Old, I can tell you that it really really sucks when an archive just disappears and you can’t find your favorite fic anywhere else.
So I know someone who’s trying to perform the fanfic rescue flightfoot is talking about.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE due to the way ff.net is coded. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE SAVED BY HAND. Which means actively retyping it. Word by word.
IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST WITH THE PRESERVATION OF FANFICTION HISTORY, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT.
Pick a fandom. Any fandom. I’d honestly recommend starting with the ones with very small amounts of fic because those are most at risk for complete fandom loss. Start saving. Do it by screenshots, if you have to. Do it comprehensively—start on the last page and save every. Single. One. Make sure you include the header and any author’s notes. EDIT NOTHING, ONLY DOCUMENT. Yes, if that means someone misspelled something or you spot a misnamed character, you need to keep that error. If you can form a “network” with friends to save all of a fandom’s works, DO IT.
Do not skip any fics. We are not the arbiters of what “should” be saved. If you can get access to the forums in any way, save whatever you can access. I know some of that has been saved by the Wayback Machine, but not all. I can already tell you research into My Immortal has been rendered uncompleteable by the loss of the forums. That’s going to be true for ALL fics. Save whatever you can reach.
I strongly recommend using the following format for whatever you save, so it can be indexed later: fandom_fictitle_author_datefirstposted.fileextension. So for example (I’m making this fic up for demonstration purposes, don’t bother looking for it), naruto_blessing_ichigo98_07192009 would be Blessing, by ichigo98, posted in the Naruto fandom on 19 July 2009. This provides all the information needed to see if a fic has been cross posted to the AO3, and to run a search engine to see if it’s archived elsewhere.
We may not be able to save it all, but we need to save as much as possible. I can start a Google spreadsheet or something if people want to have a database to keep from getting the same three fandoms over and over.
If we’re going to rescue it, THE TIME IS NOW.
As of today, September 17, 2022, fanfictiondownloader.net does not work to archive things from fanfiction.net. However, retyping everything by hand isn’t the only option - copy and paste is still working for me in Firefox operating on Windows 10.
As previous people in the chain have stated, the fact that the writing has been on the wall for FF.net for more than a year does NOT mean we were wrong - it means we are running out of time. The administration really does appear to have abandoned the site. So whenever the bill comes due for the hosting (and you can indeed buy hosting and domain names etc in large chunks - like decade-long chunks, in some cases) or whatever, and that doesn’t get paid? The site is going down.
There is no FF.net lead mission to archive or save it. There is no “I hope FF.net’s staff contacts AO3 so the fic can be archived.” If we want it saved, it is up to US to do it, and the time to do it is NOW.
Even if you literally go in there and pick a fic at random, EVERYTHING HELPS. Small fandoms, large fandoms, fandoms you’re sure somebody else has already covered - doesn’t matter. Do it anyway.
Please help. This isn’t a huge and co-ordinated effort. There’s no phone tree. If you are reading this, I am begging you personally to help. Even if you only archive ten things - THAT HELPS!
Start in the fandoms you love or start in a fandom you’ve never heard of! Just please!! Help us save this stuff before it’s lost forever!
