Popslash Archive, Take Two

[jain]

It's been over a week since Slash, Sparkle, Pop!, an automated archive for popslash stories, was completed, and so far the only story there is my own. I'll admit that I have some selfish reasons for wanting the archive to succeed: I read a lot of boyband slash, and having an easily searchable archive would really help me to track down particular stories. It would also prevent the loss of archived stories should an author's personal website go down for any reason.

However, I realize that it's a lot of extra work for an author to convert a story file into text format and fill out the posting form. So, for every archived story, I'll donate one dollar to Artists Against AIDS Worldwide (not to exceed $75 a month; I'm a barista at Starbucks with thousands of dollars worth of student loans, and I already give 10% of my income to Garden Voices and a few other organizations.)

I hope to see you all posting!

Comments

[hetrez.livejournal.com]

I have a question. On the posting information, the first question is "archive or not archive?" I'm wondering, what happens to the story if I click "no"? Isn't the point of Slash Sparkle Pop to archive? I ask because I want to put my stories there, but I've never worked with an archive before, and don't know what would happen in that situation.

Also, this is a really great idea.

[jain]

If you didn't click "yes," then you'd get a response from the archive saying that you hadn't given permission to archive a story. You'd then have to click the back button on your browser, reenter any information that had disappeared from the posting interface's fields, click "yes" for archiving, and resubmit the story.

The reason the Archive the story field exists is that the automated archive was designed for use with archives that also had an attendant mailing list. Authors could then use the posting interface to archive a story, post it to the mailing list, or both, depending on which permissions they gave.

Slash, Sparkle, Pop! doesn't have a mailing list, so that field doesn't appear on the posting interface, but I'm afraid that I'm nowhere near technologically adept enough to figure out how to make the "Archive story" command automatic.

And thank you.

[eponymous.livejournal.com]

If you like, drop me a note sometime with a url to the source code and I may be able to edit it for you. :)

[jain]

The archive just became a little bit easier to use, thanks to Georgina's generosity and expertise. The posting interface now automatically archives the stories you upload. I'm looking forward to seeing your archived stories.

[embitca.livejournal.com]

I'd love to post a story to the list, but the only story I have completed isn't slash or pre-slash or really even het. It's just a cross-over story where no sex takes place at all between a character from Buffy and Eminem. A "what if this happened" kinda scenario, what if this person was real and she met this guy?

I love the idea of an RPF-archive, but the content you're accepting is mighty restrictive, so I guess I'll have to wait until I eventually finish that Eminem/Justin fic.

[jain]

It is fairly restrictive in terms of the genre, yes. On the other hand, it's pretty inclusive when it comes to characters: any popstar, as well as Eminem, Nelly, and Wade. RPS is a big enough fandom on its own...add het and gen to the mix, and I thought it might quickly become too unwieldy.

The Eminem/Justin story sounds marvelous, though--I really like that pairing. I hope you finish it soon.

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[embitca.livejournal.com]

The Eminem/Justin story sounds marvelous, though--I really like that pairing. I hope you finish it soon.

Sigh. I dunno about soon. It's a monster that keeps growing LOL

But someday, yeah, it'll be done.