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Sports Night revival
May. 3rd, 2007 09:04 pmI'm procrastinating, which means I've done some preliminary work on my post-MJ Sports Night panel project. Basically, this involves trying to find links to every SN fic ever. Yeah, I know, why did I volunteer for this?
The good news is, The Wayback Machine seems to have at least some of the old Trickster archive pages, which is great! They don't have all 306 actual fic pages archived, although some are (I haven't checked through all the links yet, of course). The important thing is that all the Quicksearch by Author and Quicksearch by Title pages have been archived. While this may not seem like much, it is, in fact, vastly cool. It has author names. More importantly, it has author emails. The most recent archiving is from April 3, 2005, which means there's still a snowball's chance in hell that I can cold-call (er, email) authors and actually reach them. Of course, for a lot of them I don't need to do that; people like shrift and Nestra are still around and have their own sites. However, for those mysterious disappeared authors and fics, I have a) helpful people on LJ with good memories *crosses fingers*, b) Google, c) and finally, email addresses (MUAHAHAHA!). If anyone more knowledgeable wants to help me out by playing connect-the-dots between the Trickster author names and LJ handles/personal sites, I would be most grateful. I'll make more formal requests for things later, once I have a better idea what/who I'm looking for.
Aside from the Trickster archive, I have a bunch of links bookmarked. Many of these are secretly hundreds of links, sneakily disguised as a single entry in my Bookmarks folder (such as the LJ newbie guide or![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scrunchy's Dan/Casey write-up at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ship_manifesto or the snarchive journal). Each of those lends me helpful additional links in the entries themselves and in the comments, those posters'/commenters' journals as hunting grounds for possible fic/links/recs, and then more of the same for every fic/link/rec I find. It's sorta like...what's the word...a "web," isn't it? ;) God bless the Internet and all those links.
I forsee long, complicated spreadsheets in my future. Because I am weird and love making lists, this pleases me. *beams*
BTW, if anyone wants to take a trip on the nostalgia train and check out the old Trickster archive, here's a list of all the versions/dates archived. Have fun! *waves you out the door with a white hankie*
*sigh* Back to studying for Bio. I am so going to fail, guys.
ETA: Oh, thank god. There are only 155 fics over at The Pit of Voles. For one frightening moment I thought I was going to have to wade through massive amounts of truly awful fic in my obsessive need to be thorough. Whew.
The good news is, The Wayback Machine seems to have at least some of the old Trickster archive pages, which is great! They don't have all 306 actual fic pages archived, although some are (I haven't checked through all the links yet, of course). The important thing is that all the Quicksearch by Author and Quicksearch by Title pages have been archived. While this may not seem like much, it is, in fact, vastly cool. It has author names. More importantly, it has author emails. The most recent archiving is from April 3, 2005, which means there's still a snowball's chance in hell that I can cold-call (er, email) authors and actually reach them. Of course, for a lot of them I don't need to do that; people like shrift and Nestra are still around and have their own sites. However, for those mysterious disappeared authors and fics, I have a) helpful people on LJ with good memories *crosses fingers*, b) Google, c) and finally, email addresses (MUAHAHAHA!). If anyone more knowledgeable wants to help me out by playing connect-the-dots between the Trickster author names and LJ handles/personal sites, I would be most grateful. I'll make more formal requests for things later, once I have a better idea what/who I'm looking for.
Aside from the Trickster archive, I have a bunch of links bookmarked. Many of these are secretly hundreds of links, sneakily disguised as a single entry in my Bookmarks folder (such as the LJ newbie guide or
scrunchy's Dan/Casey write-up at ship_manifesto or the snarchive journal). Each of those lends me helpful additional links in the entries themselves and in the comments, those posters'/commenters' journals as hunting grounds for possible fic/links/recs, and then more of the same for every fic/link/rec I find. It's sorta like...what's the word...a "web," isn't it? ;) God bless the Internet and all those links. I forsee long, complicated spreadsheets in my future. Because I am weird and love making lists, this pleases me. *beams*
BTW, if anyone wants to take a trip on the nostalgia train and check out the old Trickster archive, here's a list of all the versions/dates archived. Have fun! *waves you out the door with a white hankie*
*sigh* Back to studying for Bio. I am so going to fail, guys.
ETA: Oh, thank god. There are only 155 fics over at The Pit of Voles. For one frightening moment I thought I was going to have to wade through massive amounts of truly awful fic in my obsessive need to be thorough. Whew.
