I just got into Farscape, which was canceled something like five years ago.
It took a while to find a rec list of Farscape fic that was 1) written by a reccer with taste similar to mine and 2) listed a lot of stories 3) that were written well.
Alas, something like 3/4 of the links on this list were broken, and 1) weren't at archive.org, 2) didn't show up in a Google search. They were posted on archives that had closed, journals that had been renamed, forums that had shut down, personal sites that had disappeared. They were effectively gone forever.
So even though I could read the title and summary and the reccer's comments about how AWESOME AND BRILLIANT a story was, I couldn't actually read it. SO FRUSTRATING.
If AO3 had existed then and everyone had been archiving there, the links wouldn't be broken and I'd have been able to read all that awesome fic that I missed because I got to the fandom five years late. For fandoms that are happening now, AO3 means that in five years, newbies actually *will* be able to find all the classic fic their hearts desire.
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Date: 2010-03-18 06:03 pm (UTC)It took a while to find a rec list of Farscape fic that was 1) written by a reccer with taste similar to mine and 2) listed a lot of stories 3) that were written well.
Alas, something like 3/4 of the links on this list were broken, and 1) weren't at archive.org, 2) didn't show up in a Google search. They were posted on archives that had closed, journals that had been renamed, forums that had shut down, personal sites that had disappeared. They were effectively gone forever.
So even though I could read the title and summary and the reccer's comments about how AWESOME AND BRILLIANT a story was, I couldn't actually read it. SO FRUSTRATING.
If AO3 had existed then and everyone had been archiving there, the links wouldn't be broken and I'd have been able to read all that awesome fic that I missed because I got to the fandom five years late. For fandoms that are happening now, AO3 means that in five years, newbies actually *will* be able to find all the classic fic their hearts desire.
*loves AO3*