Vega-Lume

Oh! Just in case anyone is interested here is the link I have been working from. Again, Thanks Deb!

https://web.archive.org/web/20011225170603/http://216.221.189.169:80/gen/archive.htm

This has got to be my favorite disclaimer so far.


"Not mine, I'd sure as hell *not* do this to anything I actually owned..." The Eggbeater by Lys ap Adin, a kink week challenge fic.

As of the most recent count I have collected approximately 1,800 Gundam Wing fanfics for my archive since April 1st. That's an average of 128 fics a day. I'm certain I have a few duplicates as my original archive already had about 2,000 fics in it and I have added fics by authors I already had in the archive. I'm estimating that by the time I am finished with my current task there will be close to 5,000 fics as I have 4 other sites to hit once I'm done with GWA.

I hope that if it ever becomes necessary, my archive could be used as a backup of some sort.

Me: *opens my working folder and selects a fanfic - starts writing*
Brain: *wandering around, poking at things*
Me: This isn't where I wanted to go with this... What is this? It's a new story! No! Work on the other story, don't make a new one!
Brain: Mawahahahaha!!!
Me: *looks at the 8 different in progress fics, closes the folder* I guess I'm writing something new today.

I managed to get into gwaddiction today in a roundabout sort of way with the help of the wayback machine. All of the author pages are there, however most of the fics themselves were not saved by the wayback. BUT using the author list I have been able to find many of the same fics on other sites online. As such I added nearly 150 fanfics to my archive tonight.

So far I have only come across one author that I haven't been able to recover anything from, Asuka (not Asuka Kereru). With hope GWA will return and I can add the stories that truly cannot be found anywhere else, as for now I'm done for the night and tomorrow is another day of unearthing more treasures to preserve.

In January GW Addiction vanished from the web, it's a devastating blow to an already crumbling fandom. Then I learned that A Little Piece of Gundam Wing (raygunworks) is also going offline.

Raygun was the site that got me into the fandom, I cried.

Its loss sparked an archiving frenzy, I haven't dedicated time to my GW fanfiction archive in years but in the last 4 days I have added around 350 fics to it. Thank heavens for the wayback machine, otherwise I would have never manged to get all the fics from Under the Bridge, which also went offline without me noticing it.

I have about 50 links to both active and inactive GW archives to get through in my effort to preserve as many of these treasures as I can, with luck I'll be able to find some of the stories I have been searching for.

I'll also keep working on my own fiction, though no body seems to be reading them, I'm determined to do what I can to keep the fandom from fading completely.

If anyone out there actually reads this and has a text archive of GW fiction and is willing to share what you have with me, I'll gladly, happily, take them and add them to my archive. I will also gladly share what I have. If you're looking for something just let me know and I'll send it to you, if I have it.