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So in terms of power outages, this one was relatively damned short. Probably because it was a huge outage - thousands of people affected rather than just my small neighborhood. But we're back now! All services are up, but please note that SquidgeWorld takes about 45 minutes to bring up once power is restored. So SquidgeWorld.org should be up about 6:30 PM Pacific Time.

Not like I don't have 1,000 other things to do, but...

If you've been in fandom for any time (for me, it started in 1992) you'll know that before there were archives, there were unofficial archives that were passed from person to person. For Sports Night, that was the "zip file" that we posted and hosted from time to time. The Sports Night zip file contained fics that, for the most part, have never been archived anywhere.

I'm a maintainer over at DW and LJ's

snarchive and we ran into an issue with the archived zip file last summer. It took Box.com's customer service a while to recover the file for us (and even then, we had to convince them that this was a part of fandom history and had to be saved for posterity), and it got me thinking. So, as an archivist/owner at SquidgeWorld Archive, and as a maintainer of the Sports Night community, I decided to save the individual stories to SquidgeWorld. So over the next couple of weeks, the 105 stories from the Sports Night zip file archive will be imported into SquidgeWorld.org

If you're interested in these stories, you can find them on SquidgeWorld in the collection "The Sports Night ZIP File Collection."

Questions? Ping me. And if there are other of these at-risk standalone archives like the ZIP file, please contact me to see if we can get them saved as well.

Reposting from the SquidgeWorld news post - thoughts?

So while we've been up for almost five months, things aren't quite as busy as they were over on Peja's Wonderful World of Makebelieve - at least back in the day. Way back in 2011, Peja and I put together a contest that ran monthly, and I'm thinking about starting it up again. What do you think?

The original contest information is here: https://www.squidge.org/peja/cgi-bin/contest.php

And if you're interested, here's how it would work:
1) On the first of the month, a script would run. It would pull:
a. One random story that was posted the previous month
b. One random comment (not a kudos, but an actual comment)
2) Entrants are vetted for validity. Validity just means it's an actual story and not some spam story/comment.
3) Vetted winners would be notified via the email address on their profile, as well as posted to a news story here.
4) Winners have up until the first of the following month to claim their prize.
5) Prizes are a $10 gift certificate to Amazon, Apple, or (possibly) Google Play if interest is there.

Winners would be:
One person whose story was posted the previous month
One person who made a comment the previous month
The author of the story where the comment was made

Thoughts? You can post them here or over on the SquidgeWorld news post.

Based on some discussions with another person about tagging, I thought I'd bring a question to those folks who are interested. This will be posted as both a blogpost on SquidgeWorld, as well as a blogpost over at SquidgeStatus's Dreamwidth account.

Alternate Universe. There's a tag that brings up all kinds of responses. I mean, who doesn't like an amazing coffee shop AU, or maybe Steve McGarrett is a Sentinel and Danny Williams is a guide? It brings up all sorts of possibilities.

But it gives me a bit of a headache as well. And that's why I would like some input.

In Peja's Wonderful World of Makebelieve (WWOMB), which of course is now SquidgeWorld Archive (SqWA), we had many different AU type tags. There's the easy ones that are true equivalents - so "Alternate universe" and "AU" mean exactly the same, so I kept "Alternate Universe" and made "AU" an equivalent. But there are others that I had a hard time with. Are they generic enough to make equivalent of Alternate Universe, or should they be standalone? And that's where you come in.

Below is a list of every current AU tag in SqWA, and either "standalone" or "equivalent of X". I made these choices on my own, but I can already see changing some. But I need another brain, because goodness knows I'm not using mine 100% these days. So if you would be so kind as to look over these and if any make you feel one way or another (especially if it contradicts what I've already chosen), please yell at me so I can change it.

Basically, if you see something that says "equivalent to X" but you feel like it should be a tag in its own right, then tell me. Like I can totally see why "Alternate Universe" and "AU - Sentinel/Guide" are completely different. Keeping them as two separate tags lets you filter out "Alternate Universe" while keeping "AU - Sentinel/Guide". But should "AU - Rentboy" be a standalone as it is, or get changed to a duplicate of Alternate Universe?

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Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence: equivalent to Alternate Universe

Alternate Universe - Dark: equivalent to Alternate Universe

Alternate Universe - Time Travel: equivalent to "Time Travel" tag.

Alternate Universe: standalone and parent to other tags

AU - Arthurian Fantasy: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - ATF: equivalent to Alternate Universe. NOTE: ATF = Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms, so profession AU

AU - Canon Divergent: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - Centaurs: standalone

AU - Children: standalone

AU - Fantasy: standalone

AU - First Meeting: equivalent to "First Meeting" tag

AU - Fusion: equivalent to "fusion" tag

AU - Gender Bender: equivalent to "Gender-Bender" tag

AU - High School: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - Human: standalone

AU - Humanoid Animals: standalone

AU - Immortality: equivalent to "immortality" tag

AU - Magic: standalone

AU - Mpreg: equivalent to "mpreg" tag

AU - Not Dead: standalone

AU - Occupation: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - Out Of Time: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - Rentboy: standalone

AU - Sentinel/Guide: standalone

AU - Shape Shifters: equivalent to "Supernatural - shape shifting"

AU - Slave!Fic: equivalent to "SlaveFic"

AU - Teen Age: equivalent to Alternate Universe

AU - Time Travel: equivalent to "Time Travel" tag

AU - Vampires: equivalent to "Supernatural - Vampires"

AU - Wake Up Gay: standalone

AU - Were Animals: standalone

AU - Zombies: equivalent to "zombies"

AU: equivalent to Alternate Universe

Here's a new sticky for Got Issues. If you have an issue, post it here.

Crossposts: https://squidgestatus.livejournal.com/74634.html

I've been pretty busy the last few weeks, because I had to transition Peja's Wonderful World of Makebelieve (The WWOMB) into a new website. That work is done, and the new site is called SquidgeWorld. It's a story archive just like Peja's WWOMB, but it's based on the software that runs The AO3. Yes, it looks similar, but no, SquidgeWorld is a completely different website, not affiliated with The AO3 or The OTW, the folks that put together the software behind The AO3.

If you're interested, head on over to: https://squidgeworld.org

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