Better Buffy Fiction Archive is back

[astridv]

I'm happy to announce that the archive is back online, in large parts thanks to landrews, littleheaven70, and psychofilly at dbfandom.com, who offered us a subdomain at their site (and went through quite a bit of trouble to get it set up).

Here's the new location of the archive: http://bbfarchive.dbfandom.com

The search engine as well as all the other scripts appear to be running fine, with the exception of the Quicksearch engine which for some reason produces blank html pages. I worked around that problem for now by simply listing all the stories on one page - bypassing the quicksearch links altogether - until I find the time to fix it.

In the meantime, I thought maybe I could save some time by asking you guys for help with these links: those are the links to offsite stories that have become defunct over time. If you happen to know working links for any of the fics listed below, please comment here or mail me at astridv at livejournal dot com.

[edit: strike = taken care of]

Title: Killing the Messenger; Author: Ailisa
Title: Heartbreak Even; Author: Amerella
Title: Hard Candy; Author: Annie Sewell-Jennings and Wisteria
Title: The Epiphany Series; Author: The Brat Queen
Title: On Impermanence: A series; Author: Dale Edmonds
Title: Deliverance; Author: Debchan
Title: Dead Man Blues; Author: Elsa Frohman
Title: A Cricket From California; Author: Elsa Frohman
Title: The Wishverse Chronicles; Author: Hettinger
Title: Sands of Time; Author: James Walkswithwind and Wolfling
Title: Theory of a Girl; Author: Jintian
Title: When She Was Bad; Author: Julie Fortune /Rachel Caine
Title: Burn; Author: Julie Fortune /Rachel Caine
Title: Daemons Luminati; Author: Kalima
Title: Rainmakers; Author: Lar
Title: Snakes and Ladders; Author: Magpie
Title: Abeyance; Author: wiseacress
Title: 89 Octane; Author: Wisteria
Title: Secret Mating Rituals of the Slayer and Vampire; Author: Wisteria
Title: fitter happier more productive; Author: zara hemla

(x-posted to bbf)

Comments

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful news.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pleased we're back online. And it went smoother than I anticipated.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Congrats to getting the site back up!

How's your new toy, btw? Working okay? It is fun? Oh, hey - email me about that rebate, okay?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I totally forgot about the rebate. Will email you tomorrow.

I love my new toy. I think I should buy it an additional battery though, because those 4 hours of juice the guy mentioned were rather optimistic. It just occurred to me that I can use the laptop on my desk when I need picture reference. As it is now, I either have to print it in b/w, or crane my neck and stare at the computer at the other side of the room.

Also, site: Yay. Was about time.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

fitter happier more productive can be found at
http://glassonion.populli.org/archive/8/fitterhappier.shtml

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I shall go in tomorrow or so and edit all the broken links in one go. The folks at bbf found all but six so far, and I think some of those remaining may be gone from the web... I seem to recall googling for Hettinger's fics a few years ago without success.

Good thing we archived onsite whatever we could... 20% of the offsite links are broken after, what, two years? *groans* And I haven't even checked the links to the authors's sites, over 400 of them. Maybe one day when I'm very very bored...

[makd.livejournal.com]

Great news!!

Hard Candy is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20041204004445/anniesj.net/hardcandy/

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks.

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update!

My 2c

Title: Heartbreak Even; Author: Amerella
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=670

Title: The Epiphany Series; Author: The Brat Queen
http://www.wtftbq.com/fanfic/angel/epiphany/

Title: On Impermanence: A series; Author: Dale Edmonds
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=957

Title: Dead Man Blues; Author: Elsa Frohman
http://lubakmetyk.infinology.net/others/elsaf/

Title: A Cricket From California; Author: Elsa Frohman
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=337
http://www.spikedreams.com/cricket01.html

Title: Daemons Luminati; Author: Kalima
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=1

Title: Rainmakers; Author: Lar
http://www.geocities.com/rileyslash/rainmakers1.html

Title: fitter happier more productive; Author: zara hemla
http://glassonion.populli.org/archive/8/fitterhappier.shtml

And - I have a question: do you plan to add new stories?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

And - I have a question: do you plan to add new stories?

Alas, no. I will have to add a note saying that on the main page. I haven't been a mod at bbf for over a year and since I left I've just been maintaining the archive at the level it's now. I'd been kinda hoping someone would take over the updating, but at this point I don't really think that's feasible. Shame, though, there're still a whole lot of great fics listed in bbf's links...

Link correction for a story

[(Anonymous)]

Title: Killing the Messenger; Author: Ailisa

Now can be found at fanfiction.net under the author/user name Neftzer.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/305783/1/Killing_the_Messenger

It's been ten years since its posting (less a few months). Thanks for the recc on your page! And for still caring to know where the story can be found, after all this time. Readers are still finding the story. :)
(Ailisa) Neftzer

Re: Link correction for a story

[astridv]

Hi! I'll fix the link soon as I get to it. Thanks for the info.

[(Anonymous)]

Just wanted to say how much I loved this site when I first started reading FF - I ran across the link again at and was very glad to see that it had returned, thanks ever for trying to keep it going - so many of the great buffyverse ff sites and outstanding works have disappeared. Thanks for trying to do what you can to keep the wonderful earlier works online.

[astridv]

so many of the great buffyverse ff sites and outstanding works have disappeared.

I know, right? It's sad to see so much classic fic disappear... not just Buffy, same for Voyager, DS9, all the older fandoms... links become defunct at a freakish rate.

I'm glad you're enjoying the archive, thanks for taking the time to comment!