Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in Alara Rogers The Archivist's LiveJournal:

Saturday, January 14th, 2006
4:59 pm	Archive updates. I haven't updated archives in so long, I'd almost forgotten about this LJ. This month, I have: Updated Alara's Magneto Site, mostly broken link fixes but some new fiction and FAQs. Put Shifting Sands back up and added one story, although I probably will not update again after that one story is completely loaded. Updated Alarascape with two Scorpius stories written in 2005. Updated my Q archive with broken link fixes and several new stories. There will probably be an update of the Xavier and Mystique sites and another Magneto update before the end of the month, but now I really have to get writing. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 24th, 2005
4:12 pm	New archive in basically forever. I have finally launched a decent auto-archive. One of the Few is an archive dedicated to the concept that mentor and teacher characters are themselves human. (Or they're not because they're mutants, or aliens, but you know what I mean.) It's using eFiction, an auto-archiving script that runs on PHP and MySQL. I had the idea quite some time ago -- in fact the original One of the Few is probably still around on my web site -- but with auto-archiving, I actually have some hope of maintaining it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, January 19th, 2004
2:06 pm	New archives and updates. Man, it's been a psychotically long time since I updated this thing. I'd almost stopped thinking of myself as an archivist. I have rescued the alt.fan.q archive (mostly-- missing about three stories) and put up a static mirror at http://www.alara.net/trek/alt_fan_q . This archive will not be updated; I'm just not stupid enough to take on a task like updating an inclusive archive again. :-) If anyone is stupid enough to do this, go ahead and contact me, and I'll hand you over my copies, though I will also maintain the static mirror of the original indefinitely. I have also updated my fanfic index for halfway decent Q fic, available at http://www.alara.net/q.html -- this is an index, not an archive, in that it doesn't archive anything locally. It only points to existing files out on the Net. I will take suggestions for stories I should be indexing; my goal is more to avoid crap than to archive only the stuff I personally recommend (I may revise the archive to flag my personal recommendations, though.) Today I will probably be updating my personal fic page (www.alara.net/aleph.html) so that the remixers have a one-stop shop for all my fic; I've joined the Remix Redux project again this year. I've learned it's kind of pointless to post about grandiose archiving plans in this journal, because they don't happen. I would, however, rather like to update Darkest Heart (it's probably broken link o'rama now), the main Marvel X-Books sites (Magneto in particular desperately needs it), One of the Few, and if I *can* in time for Valentine's Day I'd like to launch Corazon Malherido, my site for Romance Gone Wrong. :-) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 2nd, 2003
1:30 pm	Update cycle in progress. It is depressing to see that I last updated this lj in *May*, and I talked about updating my archives, and Andraste gave me Xavier links to do... and I didn't incorporate them until *now.* However, the Xavier site has finished stage 1 of its update cycle. I've fixed the broken links, used the wonders of the Wayback Machine to find everything that was lost forever, and added a pile of new stories. The pile continues to grow as I add new Magneto fanfics to Asteroid A. There's a bug in Asteroid A I need Tom to fix for me. It thinks it has a moderator. It doesn't. So I approve stuff as the editor and it says it's waiting for moderator approval. Hello, there is *no* moderator! This makes updating slower than it could be. Fanfiction.net going down like a 2 dollar whore doesn't help. Many of the Magneto fanfics I had lined up were on ff.net. What I need to do is systematically go through Luba's site since last October, Outside the Lines, X-Men Movieverse, and fanfiction.net (once it's up) and identify all the new stories in 616, Ultimate, Movie and Evolution universes which focus on Doug, Mystique, Magneto or Xavier, and get queries out to people. I also absolutely need to streamline Shifting Sands. Not sure if Liquid Mercury is ready to run with the big dogs yet; Tom says it is and Asteroid A is just broken because it's old. Maybe I can talk him into making me a second LM site for Shifting Sands. If that happens I'll need a volunteer staff for moving stuff over. Life would be sweet if Tom had the time to build an applet that allows me to just load a filename from a browser, instead of opening the file, cutting, and pasting the HTML into LM's "New Page" template. If he doesn't things will go slow. Alternatives for Shifting Sands include breaking Darqstar's directory structure all to hell, putting everything into author directories, and then having *one* Master Author List to access all the authors, removing the Story Shortcut page and replacing it with a search function... but damn it'd be so much easier to do with Liquid Mercury. Next time I get on my computer at home I need to remember to give Andraste an account. So what's planned for this cycle of updates: I'm going to update all my X-Men sites (including XXY), my Q site, and Darkest Heart, and create a new site called "One of the Few" which focuses on mentors and teachers. (LOTR fans: this means Gandalf. BTVS fans: this means Giles. Potter fans: this does *not* mean several megatons of Lupin/Black slash because I am basically sick to death of romantic pairings dominating fanfiction, but if you give me some good character studies on Dumbledore, Snape, Lupin, or McGonagall I will be very happy.) On the Xavier site I have to put up the article Neva gave me on the Anti-Xavier phenomenon and write an article debunking anti-Xavier myself (without reading Neva's article first, that wouldn't be fair :-)), and Andraste has promised me an FAQ soon. On the Magneto and Q sites I need links to the IMDB for Ian McKellan and John de Lancie respectively. I think I may also be putting up links to Left Turn At Westchester on Magneto, Xavier and Mystique sites. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002
2:52 pm	I am restless. Has it actually been three months since I did any archiving work? I want to create new archives. But dammit, I really *should* fix the ones I have. Just because I'm feeling like I'd really like to have a Garak shrine, and he's not a villain so I can't give him a subpage on Darkest Heart, isn't really a good reason for doing so when I'm so behind on all the archives. I'm considering pruning, but prune what? Hell, I actually want to bring back my Seven of Nine archive, although it wouldn't have the same fics on it necessarily, as I find I am really bored in general by Seven/any male character. I'd probably have some angsty Chakotay and Seven break up stories, because *anything* to break those two up, and some Seven/Janeway, a little Seven/Torres, and mostly just Seven with no pairing. What else can I prune? Mystique and Cypher don't seem to get updates as often as they should, but no one else has a Mystique site with fic on it; Elseworlds mostly I've lost interest in, but occasionally something shiny comes along I must have... dammit, I don't *want* to prune anything. Yet I'm not getting any work done. Well. This weekend, I should focus on Darkest Heart, Shifting Sands, Magneto and Xavier. And then nag Tom a lot about what I'd need to be able to build the other sites in Liquid Mercury. Maybe solicit some help, get some other people accounts on my site so I can have them help me move Magneto stories over to Asteroid A. Should go looking for some Anakin fics, too. Now that Episode II is out, there should be a spate of them, maybe enough finally to justify a Star Wars section on Darkest Heart. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, February 15th, 2002
11:14 am	Darkest Heart updates Oh man, don't let me sit on a site for two years without updating ever again... Darkest Heart is badly out of date. I've updated the Trek side of the site, because with the qcontinuum trekiverse mirror, I now have a reliable location to go to to hit all the stories. But I haven't actually added anything new there. On the comic book side, I recently hunted down Elliot S! Maggin's new site and updated the link for Luthor's Gift. Man, I need to get me some Smallville fics for the site-- I expect Smallville will produce a spate of Lex-positive fics (hell, it has already, but I wanna weed out most of the slash, because that's not the focus of Darkest Heart). A lot of my links don't work because people have moved their sites. Must update. I also need to ask Andraste for her Roy Batty story-- and maybe grab Dannell's-- and open a new Farscape-themed section of Darkest Heart. Need to get permissions from Dannell, Makiko, Neural Clone, ||Scorpius||, and some Crais fans. And maybe a Harry Potter section-- I have a Snape fic I want and a Tom Riddle fic I want, and I've asked for the Snape already. I don't think I'd be getting *that* much HP, since I don't read it. Maybe an idea for future implementation, once Darkest Heart is up in Liquid Mercury, is to solicit fellow villain fans from other fandoms to run subpages. I know I must be missing zillions of good Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker (slash in this case meaning either/or, not together, as I can't see how that would work short of time travel or cloning) stories because I can't wade through Star Wars fandom to find them. And if there was good Buffyfic, how would I know? I don't even know who *is* a villain in Buffy. Though I guess, if I count Ethan Rayne, I could easily get two Buffyfics, but they're both slash. But then, from what I hear about Ethan, it might be hard to avoid slash with him. :-) But I won't have a Sentinel subpage. I don't care if it has cool villains or not, Blair is just too ugly for me to have a Sentinel subpage. :-) Lines must be drawn somewhere. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:44 am	Q site is done! It's barebones, and it's not linked on the main Happy-Happy site yet, but my Q site is finally up-- http://www.alara.net/q.html . I'm taking suggestions for a name for the thing, since Q Continuum has been taken by basically everyone and Qniverse is the name of the mailing list for Q I sponsor (which I just realized, I should have linked on the main page for the Q site.) It's a bit out of date because I'm only linking stories of my own, or that I know about from the alt.fan.q archive, so far. What I need is to get working search up on my mirror of Trekiverse and do a query on Q, and add those; add Of Kings and Men, and the other story about Q on trial I can get to through Julia's site; and go getting permissions for the things that haven't hit Trekiverse yet or aren't going to, like Laura Taylor's DS9 story, or Tiggy Malvern's "Sanity." I also need to do some stuff to tweak the views-- the pages seem hard to read somehow, and I have to make sure to update pairing and character codes so I can try to develop a search functionality. But at least, the site is done at a bare minimum. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 4th, 2002
12:51 pm	Shiny! I have achieved my eight-year-long dream. I am now a host for the Star Trek archive. The Star Trek fanfic archive was originally hosted by Joe Young when I started visiting alt.startrek.creative in 1994. Sometime in 95, Joe gave it up, and as I was hosting the fanfic for alt.sex.fetish.startrek (yes, that was a fanfic group back then), I agreed to take over. What followed were 2-3 years of hell, constantly having to line up new free hosting providers for a gigantic FTP site spanning between 250 and 400 megs over the time I worked on it. (There was also the hellishness of having to actually archive every post on alt.startrek.creative, alt.fan.q, and alt.startrek.creative.erotica, which is what asfs mutated into after the porn spammers overwhelmed it.) I longed to have my own server and fast connection where I could host the site. Well, now I am. http://qcontinuum.trekiverse.net is *my* mirror for Trekiverse, mine, all mine! Yay! Stephen Ratliff (many of you may know him as one of the politest worst writers ever, beloved of the MST3K crowd because he's so amiable about having his terrible work ripped to shreds, but he's also a great, hardworking guy who has more or less made the entire Archive a workable project, as opposed to the hell it was in my day) has made a lovely Q side graphic for the main page. (To see it you may have to invoke http://qcontinuum.trekiverse.net/frame.html or http://qcontinuum.trekiverse.net/noframe.html directly. I'm not sure the randomizing program on the splash page includes qcontinuum yet.) It's so pretty! Well, okay, not any prettier than the others, but it's *mine*, bwahaha! (Comment on this)
Friday, February 1st, 2002
1:27 pm	This is my archive journal. This journal exists for the purpose of talking about my archives. Currently my entire archive tree exists at http://www.alara.net, except for the superhero erotica archive, which I really should move and update one of these days. I keep that one listed under a different name for, well, probably no good reason. The original idea was to have a firewall between my real name and my erotica work in comics and anime because I might work in those industries, but frankly I've just as much chance of doing stuff for Star Trek and my own name is on the erotica in that. Anyway. Most of you probably know what archives I have, but if you haven't visited the main page in a while, you might not know what else I have. And I'd like to talk about what I'm planning, too. Cross-fandom: Darkest Heart: Villains. So far the featured fandoms are X-Men, Star Trek (which is full of broken links that must be fixed), Gatchaman, and Pokemon, as well as "generic villain info" and some out of various fandoms where I have only one. I intend to add a Farscape subpage and update this in general. Aleph Press: All about me. Links to all my fic. Needs an update. Gatchaman: The Gatchaguru page: needs massive updating. Was a general information page about Gatchaman. Alara's Gatchaman fanfic: just my fanfic. Is current, despite not being updated in years, because I haven't written Gatch fic in years. Cross Karakoram: a Gatchaman villains fanfic archive. Is now a subpage of Darkest Heart. Needs updating. Star Trek: Alara's Q-niverse: Mostly only my fiction about Q, but also contains other people's Deja Q spinoffs. Is mostly current, but I need to add some new nifties to the Only Human page. Seven of One: A defunct Seven of Nine page, but I'd like to bring it back. Alara's Trek fanfic: accessible through Aleph Press page, lists all my Trek fanfic. Current. X-Men: Way too many archives! Crossroads X: hub page. Alara's Magneto Page: recently updated (fanfic only); also, migrating to Asteroid A, a dynamic archive. I have a backlog of 20 new stories to add and an entire migration to perform. I'll probably prioritize stuff that might disappear on me, and new stuff. Alara's Mystique page: updated last October. Current. Chuck Amuck!: for Charles Xavier, updated September. Needs an update, badly. Cyphered Text: for Doug Ramsey. Updated October. Current. Shifting Sands: general huge archive for all Xbooks. Badly needs an update. Is scheduled for the next migration to the dynamic system. Otherwhere: the Elseworlds archive. Radically alternate universes. I'm definitely considering expanding this to a cross-fandom archive. But it badly needs an update. XXY: Shared universe where all Marvel mutants are of the opposite sex. Probably needs an update, but things move slow. Farscape: Thus far, only my own fanfic. I plan to also have a subpage of Darkest Heart for Farscape. Doom Patrol: My fanfic and a few links. Blake's 7: A filk song, a pointer to a zine story of mine, and a few links. Random fanfic: All mine. (Comment on this)