First: It’s still going to be a while before I can really get back into my fanfic and try to finish the dangling pieces.  I graduated in December, woo hoo, but now grad school has taken over my life!  Term papers and the like have to take precedence.

Second: Although not much new has happened in this regard, I’ve decided that the only sites that are authorized to archive (or otherwise post) my stories are those sites that have given me direct access for editing and revision (or even deletion if necessary) of the works.  That means that if I can’t log into the archive to make changes, you can’t have it.  You can still come and read it here, though, and at the sites that have given me direct access (AoVD, RGFC, AFF.net, etc.).

If you’re an archivist, and your site doesn’t allow for that, please either remove my stories at this time or contact me about the situation and we can talk.  At this point, the only sites that are exempt from this are really old sites that have more or less gone defunct, and where contacting the service provider about removal could potentially get the whole site deleted (something I’d rather not do, given how much other hard-to-find material might get lost in the process).

Other than that, all’s quiet on this front.

So here’s the situation right now:

1. You’ll probably notice that my fanfiction is no longer located in the /fiction/ folder, and all of your links into there suddenly stopped working. I’m very sorry about that. There were some major issues with spambots targeting the site, and so I’ve reworked my fiction altogether and moved it to a new folder. Because I really don’t feel like being helpful to the spambots, in any way, I’ve simply deleted the entire /fiction/ folder and they can just stew. Click on the “Read” button and you’ll go right to the fiction in its new location.
2. Oh, but there’s the next catch! You now have to join the archive in order to read any of its contents. This is how I’m dealing with the latest round of… fandom batshittery that headed my way a few months ago. Joining is free and easy and requires no personal information other than a valid email address. As an added incentive, I’ve uploaded a number of stories and a few essays that you’ve probably never seen.
3. I am not writing fanfiction at the moment, although I do hope to finish my incomplete stories in the future. At the moment, though, I’m back in University, pursuing a degree, and that’s eating up almost all of my time. I’ve also been doing some pro writing — nothing all that exciting yet, no fiction — and that’s been eating up a lot of my creative energy. But I do hope to continue the stories here eventually!
4. As a final thing, my site now only stores my own materials. For a while I was acting as custodian to some materials that belonged to other sites; that’s ceased to be the case. Aya’s beautiful animal pictures can now be found at Ayabie Online, and the things I was storing for AoVD’s staff have now moved to their webspace. So if you were following an old link to any of those things, sorry about that, but they’re no longer here.

My email address is ardath [at] ardath-rekha [dot] com (don’t forget to correct the address before sending me mail — it’s “broken” to hold spambots and viruses at bay, not your letters). Any questions can be addressed there, or posted to the message board.

Thank you,

Ardath Rekha