Cookie Notice 9 steel_dejones 8 mo. thanks for your time! And you will have access to their deleted stories! 09:38PM UTC, tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10, The OTW is Recruiting for Legal Committee Interns, News Translation Volunteers, and Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers (0), A Priest in Korea is Moving to the AO3 (52), Thanks for Participating in International Fanworks Day 2023 (12), It's International Fanworks Day 2023! What is a collection? Logging in doesnt actually do anything if youre viewing a page saved on the Wayback Machine its a frozen page, not something you can interface with. Keep track of works you've visited and works you want to check out later. Your user name and/or pseud is removed from the byline on the work and all its chapters. For more information, please see our Below is the information about how to find deleted ao3 fics . It was on this site and might have been deleted and I forgot the name. You can find a fanfiction.net archive download here but if the story was deleted before this archive was done (2014 or 2015 I think), it won't be there. If you're concerned about the public availability of your works, check our "How can I hide my works from non-Archive users?" Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Is there any way to find it? is ao3 off of wayback machine again? While the Wayback Machine is a great service, and another useful tool in the efforts to preserve fanworks and fan history, this is a good reminder not to keep all your eggs in the same basket. If you select the "Edit" button, your comment will then appear in a textbox in HTML format. We reached out to its maintainers several times during this period, to find out why AO3 pages weren't archived anymore. How to find multiple chapters of a deleted fanfic on cached? myrach0ndria 2 yr. ago There are various sources of books online; this article focuses on AO3. showed up :/. Click on this arrow and a little box with the wordcached will appear. Hope this will come in handy for you! Here's the url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11579037 I tried the wayback machine but maybe I did it wrong. As a reader I mainly go back and forth from ffn and AO3, I spend a considerable amount of time combing my favored fandoms in search of something to read but, like many of you, I sometimes find myself in something of a dry spell or I'm simply in the mood to read something from my already curated bookmarks. It was about Sheamus and Wade both being kings in like the medieval times and having to fight each another one on one on the battlefield. Dive in! Orphaning is a way to remove some or all of your works from your account without taking them away from fandom. Remember to register and log in to any of the above services before searching for the book, as sometimes authors can restrict their works from being seen by non-members. Even if they wanted to, most publishing houses would oblige them to take it down. When I attempt to access a story on The Wayback Machine it briefly loads the story, then redirects me and I get stuck on the "Accept our terms and services" page as it won't allow me to check the box saying I accept terms and services. If you change your mind, select "Cancel" to close the textbox. Longer fics will likely have more tags as more topics are covered, but they still rarely top a few dozen at most. This was the link to the story itself: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4125694/1/Public_Affairs and this was the link to the author's profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/594667/funkyflamingo. (And yes, I'm aware that for example Google is caching websites too), Last Edited Fri 24 And thank you @jbsforever (ily ). I remember that Hina and Takemitchy were dating but they broke up because Takemitchy found Hina cheating. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. How can I get my work(s) back if I change my mind after orphaning a work? (the author-name would be deleted given that deleting the story does not always mean that they are gone). For more information, refer to the. But let me tell you this isnt true. Luckily for us, shes putting them on again! 3. You will have to google each chapter individually (so type in google: author + title + chapter of choice), but honestly thats a small price to pay for having access to a goldmine of fanfiction! All you have to do, is take the title of the story you want to read. I recently saw a post here on Tumblr that said that when a fanfic gets deleted from Archiveofourown.com or Fanfiction.net(or any other website you can think of)you will never be able to find this again. D: here i was, thinking i'd hit the jackpot and could read some of my favourite fics again. Sorry, this news post doesn't allow comments. Reading has been a favored pastime of the civilized world for centuries; however, as with several other things, the internet has only made it more popular than it once was. AO3 has almost three million works right now and starting from the assumption that the Wayback Machine supposedly stopped crawling AO3 less than a year ago (?) With an AO3 account, you can: Share your own fanworks. Mar 2017 Fill in as many of the sections as you can, and see if you can find the fic then! How did you search for it? Hope this will come in handy for you! Luckily for us, shes putting them on again! Is there any way I can recover them? I think on the long run it will be pretty unlikely that everything will be saved, because most of the stuff on the net is either ephemeral or simply rubbish. The first option you have when you want to read deleted fanfiction on AO3 is to check other fanfiction websites. For more information, refer to the, Orphan all your works from the Preferences page on your Dashboard. You can see a little arrow pointing downwards at the end of it. Here's the fic https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jorORmEDrWPM_x94KzMCx5WetktwahXt/view?usp=sharing. https://archiveofourown.org/works/35224105. A supportive community for writers, readers, and reccers to talk about and share FanFiction. You should prepare a good memory because you are going to need . Privacy Policy. Webpages are constantly changing, and internet archives are a way to keep track of these changes to the internet. page, you will get an error: But dont worry! Edit: Typically, if a fic wasn't saved/archived on archive.org / wayback machine, you'd have to track down someone else who may have saved the fic themselves. Which means apparently the story wasn't saved at all. Use the "Delete My Account" button at the bottom of your profile. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Good to know! ago Sir. I have created this forum to be a helpful community for those of us who are in search of copies of deleted fanfictions or for the titles/locations of fanfictions long forgotten. You can see a little arrow pointing downwards at the end of it. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Save everything you want locally. Title basically says it all. On archive.org I did find some Fanfiction archives however I am not sure how it works or if that specific fanfiction or other stories by the author are on the archive. I did find the majority of the fic translated in Italian here. Hi! TLDR: Fanfic i read in 2017 probably got deleted and i want to find it. Wow that 2010 archive is a blast from the past! Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. Some frequently asked questions about the Archive are answered in other sections of the Archive FAQ, and some common terminology is defined in our Glossary. We're pleased to announce that after seven months, the Archive of Our Own is once again available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine! You can orphan the work according to the instructions in How do I orphan my work(s)?the byline on the work will read "orphan_account" or "your pseud (orphan_account)". In May 2013 I decided to do some additional works on my stories, so I deleted them here. I tried the wayback machine but maybe I did it wrong. See whoareyouandwhyshouldicare's whole Tumblr. You may also like to check out our Known Issues. All fans and fanworks are welcome! (Of course I'm having a hell of a hard time trying to find my old, cringy fics from 2010 that I deleted out of embarrassment, thanks to FFN denying web crawlers, so you shouldn't worry too much. In the default site skin, there are "Edit" and "Delete" buttons on comments you're able to edit or delete. Particularly odd as I've already done that on the AO3 site proper. They decide not to fight because they have fallen in love and hope their people would understand that. tip: arthur merlin words>1000 sort:hits. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Examples of such internet archives are Archive.org, Time Travel and Stillio. Well, if you take them off restricted, then you will have to contact the archive and ask for the pages to be taken down. TADA!!!!! Unfortunately if you click on one of the stories while on this (rediscovered?) The thing is, the FFN link for the story was saved (on March 4, 2020 as the site says), but it looks like the page that was actually saved was the "story not found" page. Unfortunately if you click on one of the stories while on this (rediscovered?) (THANK YOU SO MUCH). Privacy Policy. They are a nonprofit website that allows users to post stories that could be fanfiction or original works; they run as a free-for-all, where anyone can write anything and share it. This first widget will style itself automatically to highlight your favorite product. She had a lot more than that. Here is the link. In such scenarios, what can you do? And thank you @jbsforever (ily ). If you need more help, please submit a Support request. Idk. I'm in a fandom where harrassment over shipping is very common (though appears to be waning post-finale), so if I really, really love a work, I don't take a chance. For more information, go to How do I orphan my works? https://web.archive.org/web/20150917062824/https://archiveofourown.org/works/4344557. The thing is, the FFN link for the story was saved (on March 4, 2020 as the site says), but it looks like the page that was actually saved was the "story not found" page. AO3 stands for Archive Of Our Own (the O3 simplifies the last three words starting with the letter O in its title). You could be in a situation where a book has been deleted that you enjoyed reading years ago, and you want to reread it. page, you will get an error: But dont worry! I might be wrong, but until you get an answer from someone smarter (hehe), I don't think hiding from the search engines would help. Orphaned works will be maintained by the Archive to be enjoyed by future fans; existing bookmarks and links will not break. Try searching for: url:https://archiveofourown.org/works/******?view_full_work=true. 16 fanfictions and their names for you to enjoy. Edit: Thank you everyone for replying! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. So for example: jbsforever archive of our own. Please note that the work will not be removed from the seriesto do this, you must edit the work to remove it from the series before orphaning it. Rather than excluding only pages belonging to users who had asked for their content to be taken down (e.g. >_<), Last Edited Fri 24 If you're looking for some information that's important to you (such as research for work or learning how to manage your money), then the advice here is to first write down the relevant keywords on a piece of paper to figure out exactly what you want, which will be a lot more efficient. An orphaned work remains in the Archive attached to the orphan_account, and cannot be edited or deleted. Go through the exact same process you just did with the authors name, but just type their name and the title into google now (author + title). I see how this is a nice feature for readers - but then it also means for me as an author that I won't be able to delete my fic without also having to contact the wayback machine and ask them to take down the mirror, right? In this post, we will tell you tricks on how to find deleted fanfics using Google, just like anybody else. What I want to say, and get your opinions on is this: would it be better/ possible to delete the stories but leave the title and summaries in the bookmarks that predate the deletion? Where To Find Deleted Fanfiction? People always say that once you put things online they're there forever and that is the risk that is taken. Some fanfiction authors dont post their stories on just one website, so you might be in luck and find that they didnt delete the story on another website even though they removed it on AO3. Guess what her page looks like now? (Check out the Archive homepage from 2010!). Can you find this fanfic for me? Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. But this will bring you to how the page is currently installed. Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. The winner would take over both England and Ireland. <3. In this particular case I'm just a bit nonplussed to what exactly the gain of my fic being mirrored elsewhere should be when I already archived it here. Alternatively, double-check that the Wayback Machine hasn't archived the full version of the story somewhere. Once you post something online, assume that it will never disappear. Shirogayne-at-WF 4 yr. ago. . (49), "How can I hide my works from non-Archive users?" . The alternatives listed above are websites, but if you need an app on your Windows or Mac system to check for fanfiction, you can useoStorybookorMyStorybook. with the asterisks being for the URL of your work in question. So we will be working with the words under there, the ones that appear in green. After you have chosen which work(s) to orphan, you have two options: For more information on pseuds, please go to the Pseuds FAQ. Please note that this is permanent and irreversibleyou are giving up control over the work, including the ability to edit or delete it, and you are unable to reclaim it. TADA!!!!! i can get some of the fics (weirdly) but not all of them. All you will want to do is open google.com, type in the name of the writer (or the name of the fanfiction if you remember) + the website that their fanfiction was published on. Have your favorite fanfictions suddenly disappeared without a trace? Data is eliminated from the work(s) themselves, and also their chapters, associated series, and any feedback replies you may have left on them, transferring it to the Archive's specially created orphan_account. **Also, I did try the wayback machine, but I still could not get the actual stories themselves. So, check if the fanfiction youre looking for has been published if youre looking for it on AO3 and cant find it. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. You can'torphaning is permanent and irreversible. Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. I remember reading a fanfic in early 2017 that i just. Even if it's not fool-proof, no one can expect that; but in the current phrasing it sounds like it's not working at all, with anything. 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