Forgive me while I take a moment to consider how long twelve years of fandom really is...
Anyway. Another voice in favour of archives as a good way of finding unexpected fic by previously unknown authors, especially multifandom archives as a way of finding rare fics. Also, in several archives there's the option to say, "Hm, I want to find fics in fandom X, that has characters Y and Z in them, are longer than 20,000 words, and would genre-wise be called hurt/comfort," and through search function, if there are any such fics in the archive, lo and behold, the fics will be found! Something I've found immensely frustrating on LJ is that I can't combine tags in my search - I can find all fics belonging to a certain tag, but I can't then limit my search further. (I think perhaps delicious is better from that perspective? Except it requires a search in several steps, which archive search often doesn't?)
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Date: 2010-03-18 03:29 pm (UTC)Anyway. Another voice in favour of archives as a good way of finding unexpected fic by previously unknown authors, especially multifandom archives as a way of finding rare fics. Also, in several archives there's the option to say, "Hm, I want to find fics in fandom X, that has characters Y and Z in them, are longer than 20,000 words, and would genre-wise be called hurt/comfort," and through search function, if there are any such fics in the archive, lo and behold, the fics will be found! Something I've found immensely frustrating on LJ is that I can't combine tags in my search - I can find all fics belonging to a certain tag, but I can't then limit my search further. (I think perhaps delicious is better from that perspective? Except it requires a search in several steps, which archive search often doesn't?)