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This fannish archive project has been going on in my peripheral vision for a few weeks now and while thinking it sounded a great idea in theory, was keeping a wary distance until it began to take on some sort of form and coherence, because we all know how easy it is for fandom projects to peeter out into nothing. But the most recent posts look promising - as well as confirming it'd accept RPF, which is something I was wondering - and I thought it was about time I gave them a little bit of enthusiasm. It really would be a fantastic site to have. I remember starting out on ffnet and it'd have been so much easier, not to mention better for my writing, to start out somewhere fannish instead.

So

(This announcement is being forwarded from the fanarchive community on LJ.)

A group of fanfic fans is forming to set up a nonprofit organization for collective fannish projects, including building a central fanfic archive. We are setting up shop in the fanarchive community on livejournal, located here:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/

A couple of big updates have been posted today (Monday June 4), including the basic outline of our organization structure and our call for volunteers. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please stop by, give us your thoughts, and sign up for announcements!

Here are the two posts:

The Organizational Structure
http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5634.html

Willingness to Serve
http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5913.html

If you don't have an LJ account, you can subscribe by email with this handy free service:

http://www.rssfwd.com/

All you need to do is paste in the following URL:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/rss

(If you use an RSS newsreader, you can use that same URL to subscribe to the news feed.)

You also do not need an LJ account to make comments on posts -- please just remember to put your name/pseud somewhere in your comment, so everyone knows who is talking, and include your email address so others can reply to you directly if you want.

If you would like to catch up on the last week or two of discussion, a helpful summary post is up here:

http://community.livejournal.com/fanarchive/5406.html

Thank you!

-- astolat (otherwise known as shalott)



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While on the subject of fic, I really need to start writing again. Kicking around some idle Spaced bunnies that aren't in any way helped by my Spaced DVDs refusing to play on my main computer (you know, I wish I'd named the computers when I got them. It'd be so much more interesting to type say, Jack or Simon or Miranda than 'main computer' and 'laptop'). Also can't quite see how to get the visual jokes to work smoothly in written form. The long, lazy sentences I like might not work either. Mmmm.

Surprisingly, there's nary a Hot Fuzz bunny in sight, maybe because there are some great stories kicking around that fandom already. I do tend to memorise stuff rather than reccing it outright, unless it's really really good so it's probably better to keep an eye on my memories for recs. I really should start backing up all this fic (all 44 of the Ten/Rose ones. x_x ...Maybe later.)

Hoovers outside and they're cutting the grass under my window*. We're students and it's not even half-ten. I swear they plan their lives around waking us up, for their own sadistic glee.

...Or not. But that's what it feels like (though I was already awake today. Hah! Thwarted.)

* This at least means my room smells wonderfully of freshly cut grass, rather than the lingering smell of flatulent cow that hung over campus yesterday morning. Oh the joys of the countryside.

edit: Oh! And also, went out for dinner last night to celebrate old!S's (don't question the intricacies of our flat; it gets complicated) 21st and got chatting to her friend R, who I kind of knew but not well. She's from London so I was explaining about the Hot Fuzz screening me and Miko wanted to go to and how cool it must be to live within Tube distance of these things. Then she turned around and asked me the question that I've been waiting someone to ask, of "So which do you like better, Shaun or Hot Fuzz?"

I felt like jumping up and down, honestly. People around here who've seen films like this, at least in my flat/building, are in *short supply*. Say Dogma, Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, chances are you'll get a politely blank look. We *had a discussion about Shaun and Hot Fuzz*. Things like this don't happen every day. It gave me geeky squee.

So I invited her to our back-to-back-Shaun/Fuzz night next week. People who appreciate geekdom should be treasured.