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[rodo]

☞ Please remind me to never try an old fandom ever again. I just finished the Hornblower TV series and was desperate for fic. Well, I looked and found a number of promising rec lists, an archive and a very long list of stories. The very long list of stories, unfortunately, contained no useful information beyond title and author. The archive had no fics that interested me, but at least it wasn't frozen in 2002 and about the rec lists ... at least half the links were dead. The others led to stories that I had no interest in. It's especially sad because the first link I clicked on seemed to be exactly the kind of story I was looking for. The author seems to have deleted all her fics, of course. I tried ff.net too, but the Sues put an end to that. *sigh* Never again.

☞ PS: Has anybody any idea how the ancient file size label translates to word count?

☞ Why the translation exchange post on ff.de is doomed to fail: People offer to translate from English to German and authors offer stories to be translated from German to English.

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[rodo]

If you you Ransom somewhere on a rec list, do not despair! It had the serial numbers filed off and you can buy it as original fic on Amazon. ;)

Or, you know, via wayback *muahahaha*. So that was the fic that got recycled. I know I heard about it before. I was mostly talking about Janis Cortese's fics, though. It's recced everywhere and was apparently deleted.

btw, I didn't notice the typo until I read the sentence for the fourth time.

150 KB circa 25,000 words.

Thanks! It's really confusing if you have no idea what to expect when you've next to no experience with these labels.