Rec links fixed

[indri]

I've just checked and updated the links from my Recs page. Most of the stories I recommended years ago are still available somewhere online, thanks to sites such as the Better Buffy Fic archive and All About Spike. Archivists rock.

Unfortunately, the personal archives of at least three major authors have gone missing. One author contacted me by email to say that she was removing her fic from the web, which I understand the reasons for, but which is a sad loss. She she wrote one of my favourite ever slash fics, which I'm glad to say I still have saved on my hard drive.

Cas's website of historical Angel fic is gone. Some of her work available at BBF but not all.

Wisteria's website is gone too (hello, if you're reading this). Again, much of her work is available in an archive (All About Spike) but Hard Candy seems to have vanished.

Nor can I find the Giles fanfic site Wish I Could Stay nor Montague Terrace in Blue by Lovesbitca. I'll send of emails of enquiry but it looks like they're gone.

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

I hate it when authors make their fic do a vanishing act. It makes the literary scholar in me cringe inside . . . there are enough lost texts in the world without adding to their number.

[indri]

I can understand it when someone's used their real name and doesn't want to be found by Google, but I wish they'd just switch to a pseudonym, which should be enough to deal with most surface searches.

It's just such a loss of good works.

I can see us piecing together the early days of Buffy fanfic from antiquated hard drives in a couple of decades time.