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Part 1 of Archive of Our Own
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E. Coli: Eel's collection of archive curiosities
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2008-10-03
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A vaguely accurate RPF story about the Archive partially told in ALT text

Summary:

Everything you need to know is in the title.

Notes:

Thanks to cupidsbow for the beta. Images taken from all over the place and referenced on my flickr account.

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Work Text:

Once Upon a Time not that long ago there was me:

and

and

and:

This was quite distressing for a lot of people (no, not the muscles) and so:

said we should have an Archive of Our Own and that

(except probably pithier).
At the time

looked at the whole thing and thought ‘what a mess!’ then went on reading

and

and whomping willow fic

and occasionally

and

and lets face it, anything else that crossed the radar.

 

Time passed and

went to

except, you know, prettier and

 

published a

of the proposed Archive.
In a fit of curiosity and enthusiasm

thought ‘that’s pretty darn organised’ and volunteered to be organised too

In a flurry of emails

met

and

and spent a lot of time gathered around

and

discussing Archives. It turned out there were a bunch of committees such as

and

who were filled with

of great enthusiasm.

Then

and and

from around the

met at odd hours

(for an)

to discuss weighty matters including

and


This went on for many months and

was still in

except, you know, prettier.

All the friends got sick of hearing about the

but sometimes they got all

as well and supplied lots of


After many

and

(and no small amount of confusion as to whether we were creatures of the night).

The Archive looked like

then then

and finally

which was very exciting!


Now we can

with and

which is awesome!
We can also

and of course

 

We have cool features like

and and

The

has cautiously made the Archive available for beta testing (this is internal only to start with)

and we are ready to polish the Archive until it is

Now I'd like to end on

but the thing is we've barely started this story.

As to what happens next? I suppose that's up to


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