FF.net once again

[wiseheart]

The unlucky site is acting up again, it seems. I'm getting the weirdest error messages - like "site is busy, come back later", or "continuity timeout", or simply a blank page when I try to call up the LOTR-page with "All Ratings", while I can access the individual ratings, even R.

I hope it's just the preteen authors having too much time to read each other's stories, not the next scheduled general breakdown of the site.

I've now all of my presentable stories posted on "The Stories of Arda" - but that's not even half of my work. All the other stories have these (mostly implied) m/m overtones, therefore unacceptable there. A pity, it's such a good archive, and the admins are very nice.

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[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I've found ff.net slow for the last few days, and got the same error messages. Hopefully it is just heavy usage - indeed, it's quite a feat to keep the site running at all, considering how popular it is :)

Sorry about SoA. It might be worth asking Nilmandra about something like 'Astonishment in Mirkwood', where the m/m is only in the backstory... but the site seems quite strict, and as it's something of a haven for fans who are anti-slash, there's a chance that anything remotely homoerotic will be reported for abuse. :(

All the recently-founded general archives I can think of have been non-slash. It's a frustrating trend. As Ithilwen commented a while back, the fandom lacks an all-ratings, all-genres archive at SoA's quality level. (Apart from HASA, of course.) There's definitely an opening for some enterprising webmaster.

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

the site seems quite strict, and as it's something of a haven for fans who are anti-slash, there's a chance that anything remotely homoerotic will be reported for abuse

That's right, which is exactly why I'm not even asking in the first place. That would only lead to awkward feelings on both sides and I don't want that.

As Ithilwen commented a while back, the fandom lacks an all-ratings, all-genres archive at SoA's quality level.

That's also true. What I like in SoA is that once they have accepted you as a site member, you can upload your stories without any further supervision from the admins. I value that very much, that's why I keep myself strictly to the rules. I even edited out a sentence from the Epilogue of The Face of the Enemy, because it contained a hint that two characters of the same gender might have had something with each other in the distant past.

But you are right, it's frustrating that on the one side are these strictly antislash archives, on the other side the slash-only ones, and people who don't write the same story all over again are sitting on the floor, between two chairs. Not to mention the fact that I stopped posting on any of the slash archives, because I don't consider myself a "slasher" in the classic sense of the word.

At least I've got 11 stories at SoA now - the so-called "clean" ones, though I don't really understand why battle gore and someone killing his own brother would be less offending - where people who are looking for serious fic can read them. For that I'll be forever grateful to Nilmandra, who's a very nice person anyway.

And, of course, I've got my Mirkwood stuff at the TTR archive, where the admin is a very nice person, too. Still, I wish we had the financial means and web skills to make the Edhellond archive similar to SoA. That site works so well and is so easy to handle that even an idiot like myself can work with it.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

You haven't broken FF.net again, have you? :)

Honest Injun, I've been having no problems.