I think Joerg said he was having technical difficulties but that it should be back up.
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P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2002 9:59:22 am PDT #175 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 22, 2002 10:51:03 am PDT #176 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
It was up last night.
My reflex is that the recommended fanfiction should point to rec pages or to archives.
Wrod.
P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2002 10:55:09 am PDT #177 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Y'know, I could maintain a (edit: separate) recs page if we wanted to have one.
So long as it's just grunt work and no actual thinking is involved.
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 22, 2002 12:36:20 pm PDT #178 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I do like that idea. A whole-Buffista recs site, that we could update ourselves by sending emails to PMM, hmm? I know that I've got a few pages of recs written out and stored on my hard drive-- I'm not sure what I wanted to do with them, but they're there.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 22, 2002 12:38:37 pm PDT #179 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think we'd want to have a "recc'd by Rebecca Lizard", "recced by PMM" , recced by Susan W. sort of thing, because, while we all usually like well-written fanfic, we like divergent fanfic. Or, I guess it could be recced by couple. (says the person who reads only buffista produced fanfic, or Buffy/Spike)
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 22, 2002 2:08:24 pm PDT #180 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I think we'd want to have a "recc'd by Rebecca Lizard", "recced by PMM" , recced by Susan W. sort of thing, because, while we all usually like well-written fanfic, we like divergent fanfic.
Oh yes. I was thinking in terms of also having written a tiny blurb about the piece-- you know, also mentioning the time/place it was set, the pairings unless it's considered a spoiler for the piece, any reservations you may have ("This is one of the best Spike-with-a-soul pieces I've seen in ages-- but the Willow voice almost made me close the window"). That sort of thing.
Anne W. - Sep 23, 2002 6:07:52 am PDT #181 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I do like the idea of a "recommended by (Buffista)" blurb along with a little bit about why the recommender recommended that piece. I would find that a lot more useful than just a link that leads off into the unknown.
Jesse - Sep 23, 2002 7:02:56 am PDT #182 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Our current links page does do that -- it says who added the link, and there is a blurb. I mean, I guess if people want to do an extensive fanfiction recs page, that could go somewhere different...I dunno.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 8:09:30 am PDT #183 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just don't want to put the recs on the links page, since it could quickly overwhelm the page (see BBaBB).
Sophia Brooks - Sep 23, 2002 12:24:38 pm PDT #184 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I need to email allyson about the present-- is she allyson@fury.net or allyson@davidfury.net?