DMZ returns to Pegasus

[domarzione]

My most prolific fandom was not MCU, it was Stargate. But my SGA days were on LJ and I had a personal website for the longer things. I moved a lot of it to ao3 once that became a thing, but not all of it. Not the OC-heavy stuff (because I was under the ‘made sense to me at the time’ impression that that wasn’t what ao3 was for) and not the gazillion little drabbles and vignettes and bits that I felt were too short for individual ao3 posts. So a lot has been missing from my canon over the last eighteen years as both LJ was abandoned and the website died. Open Doors offered repeatedly to help me out and I… just never did it. I also knew that while I could give them my HTML files, I was still going to have to be the one to scrape LJ.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/DMZ_SGA

The way to backfill on ao3 without sending out a gazillion notifications is to put everything in an unrevealed collection and then keep adding until you’re done and then ta-dah! So that’s what this is. It’s 20+ stories plus one ginormous catch-all full of the vignettes and drabbles (it’s a drabble if I want to call it a drabble) and bits in one document.

Additionally, I added POV shifts or postscripts to already-there stories:

Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming
Entaillen
The Pegasus Galaxy Presents: George Romero’s Alice in Wonderland


There are still gaps; it’s hard to scrape LJ when you can’t log in and need to go back twenty years via loaded tags. But a lot less is missing now.

Comments

[wychwood]

Ahhh! Welcome back! I shall have to revisit some old favourites.

[domarzione]

Hey hey!

I live, very differently than I did when I wrote these stories. I'm glad and honored that there is still an audience for them.

[writerlibrarian]

What do you mean OC… Yoni absolutely was in Stargate Atlantis …😄

[domarzione]

And you are the one who gave him a face!

[oriolegirl]

Oh, this is awesome! Thank you!

[domarzione]

And thank you! I'm chuffed anyone's still interested, tbh. It's been twenty years (!!!!!) since those earliest bits were written.

[beatrice_otter]

Yaaaaay! I'm so glad that all this stuff got archived in a more accessible place.

Don't suppose the website was ever saved on archive.org, that would make this entirely too easy.

[domarzione]

Oh, I don't need IA for the old stuff -- I have all of my files. From the first fifteen years of a very prolific fannish writing career, so, LOTS OF FILES. All I had to do was drop them in a Google Drive for Open Doors. And yet I never did it. Because it would mean double-entry accounting with what was already on ao3 and figuring out what the hell was on LJ and I would need to have code stripped from the pages (trackers, CSS, images, navigation) and it just seemed exhausting. So I waited until I had time and energy and interest and spent a week scraping LJ. Which is why some of the longer stories are still missing but I have the files somewhere.