The Vanished FanFic Archive

Introduction

Every year, it seems that more of the great fanfic classics lose their home. In some cases, the author had the foresight to post them to a site like Fanfiction.net or MediaMiner, but in some very notable cases, the story just vanishes... lost to all but those with dedication and "l33t geek skillz".

Hence, this site. My intent is simply to provide complete downloads for every fic which can no longer be found in a reasonable amount of time using Google, Fanfiction.net, MediaMiner, and the rec.arts.anime.creative archives. [1] [2] [3] Or, in the case of adult-only Ranma fanfiction (lemons), in The Ranma ½ Lemon Story Archive. Another good place to look for Ranma fiction is Rakhal Stormwarden's Penultimate Ranma Fanfic Index.

If you believe you know of such a fic, please contact me. If the fic has indeed vanished, it will be added to the "Vanished" section once I've scraped the pieces out of the lesser-known corners of the web. (Please note that, due to their robots.txt restrictions preventing automated archival, fics which were only available via fanfiction.net will take me longer to find) If it has simply moved and left behind broken links, I will add a link to the "Crippled" or "Moved" sections as appropriate. Enjoy. :)

Feel free to request a copy of this site. Please state whether you intend to host a mirror so I know how urgent it is for you to be notified of updates. If you do host a mirror, please inform me of it's URL so I can add a link to it.

All fics are offered as either Zip files (multi-file fics) or gzipped files (single-file fics). Windows XP includes native support for Zip files and some browsers (Firefox included) will automatically de-compress and display the gzipped files on this site. For older versions of Windows or if you're using a browser which doesn't automatically extract gzipped content, I recommend 7-zip. MacOS users can use Stuffit Expander. Everyone else should either have the tools installed by default, or know how to get them.

In case anybody is wondering, I will not be offering any ChangeLog-like section for this site. If you have requested that I add a vanished fic, I'll let you know when I'm done. The only other reason I can see for people wanting to monitor the site for updates is if they wanted fics to vanish and migrate here... and I think that's just sad.

The Fics

Vanished

Fics in this category do not exist in their complete form anywhere else on the net and some or all of the chapters exist only in The Wayback Machine , FFML archives [1] [2], and people's personal archives.

Title	Author	Description	Status
Various Fics	Fire	To keep this listing brief, Fire's fics are listed individually on a separate page.	Author's site down. Missing from FFnet.
Various Fics	Space Pirate Hamster (C. Jones)	Due to the large number of them, Space Pirate Hamster's fics need their own page.	Author's site down. Missing from FFnet.
Akane-chan Change!	Phil Hacker	How might Ranma ½ go if the Tendo family were part of the Shimeru clan from the Futaba-kun Change manga?	Author's site down.
A Panda's Dream	haxchan	A nice "permanent curse" Ranma ½ story where Genma doesn't try to correct their belief that he's Ranma's pet panda.	Only available in the raw FFML archive bundles.
I'm A Boy	Bridget E. Wilde	What if Nodoka vowed to raise her children as women among women... before she knew she was pregnant with Ranma?	Author's site down.
Koyuki's Red Pinwheel	David Pascal	A Sabre Marionette J fic, but that's all I know.	Author's site down. Only mirror almost impossible to find.
Mirror, Mirror	Mike Ricketts	Ranma ½ AU fic. Before leaving China, Ranma utilises an Amazon treasure to try to cure his curse. One mishap later and Ranma winds up controlling two bodies, his original one and a copy of his cursed body... Unfortunately for him he can only control one body at once with any fine control... Or can he?	Author's site down.
Naisen	SMoonUsagi & RyogaLost	A Ranma ½ fic, but that's all I know.	Author's site down. Only mirror hard to find.
Quantum Destinies	Jurai-Knight	A Ranma ½ fic involving multiple universes and an alternate Genma Saotome who invents a device to peek into the mind of your alternate. This copy is now complete, containing all 23 chapters and both title images.	All other sources incomplete.
The Saotome Gambit	J. Austin Wilde	A Ranma-Battletech crossover, but that's all I know.	Author's site down. RAAC-archived copy incomplete and missing the fanart.
Trial By Tenderness	Cevn	A masterful self-insert which many fanfic fans consider to be among the top five Oh My Goddess fanfics of all time.	All other sources incomplete.
Analysis: Ranma's A-Okay?	A-kun	Lemon: Sequel to Space Pirate Hamster's Hot and Cold Running Ranma. (also a lemon)	Seemingly only existed on Space Pirate Hamster's site, which is now vanished.

Crippled

Fics in this category have lost their home site, but are still available (possibly in a form inferior to the version from the home site) on Fanfiction.net or MediaMiner. In the case of crippled fics where the full experience is a must (for example, fics with especially important fanart), I will try to compile and host a copy of the non-crippled version.

Title	Author	Description	Status
Various Fics	Fire	To keep this listing brief, Fire's fics are listed individually on a separate page.	The FFnet versions are missing important images.
Various Fics	Space Pirate Hamster (C. Jones)	Due to the large number of them, Space Pirate Hamster's fics need their own page.	The FFnet versions are missing important images.

Pulled

The purpose of this category is to show authors that the fans don't like it when "junk" is pulled before the revised version is completed and that we will continue to share the stories until the revised version is ready.

Title	Author	Description	Status
Phoenix Rising	Terryie	A Ranma - Sailor Moon crossover (specifically, a fukufic) that, while not the greatest, does have some unique events and could be a lot worse	Pulled pending revision as of 2006-11-06.
Moon Over Wands	Jared Ornstead	A quick glance seems to indicate that it's some kind of Harry Potter - Sailor Moon crossover self-insert. All I know is that it was pulled, and that I managed to find a copy using some very special guesswork and trickery.	Listed as "Unavailable" on Studio Asynjor.

Moved

Fics/sites in this category are still alive and healthy, but their home has moved and all the links still point to the old location.

Title	Author	Description	Last Checked
Tabyk's Corner	Tabitha Knight	All of Tabitha Knight's fanfiction is still available at her new site. But the robots.txt file seems to even exclude GoogleBot.	2006-11-06
X-ile Fanfictions	X-ile	X-ile's old Geocities site may be dead, but there's a newer one that isn't.	2006-11-07
Ken Wolfe's Fanfics	Ken Wolfe	The Sympatico hosting server that held the old site no longer exists.	2006-11-14
Suika's fanfic	Suika Roberts	Apparently this location isn't readily obvious.	2007-07-17
Anifics-hosted sites	Various	Sol didn't have time to get everything back to the old URLs.	2008-02-15
Terminal Justice	Overkill	Not moved, but it's only hosted in the CaerAzkaban and irrational_intelligence Yahoo Groups and its name isn't vary globally uncommon, so it's hard to Google for. You'll need to be logged in and have joined the group for this link to work. If you are blocked from Yahoo Groups somehow, contact me and I'll e-mail you a copy of the chapters I've read so far.	2008-03-29

Contribute

Those who are in a contributory mood can help in the following ways:

Tell your friends about this site

tell me about fics that have vanished
Let me know if you have copies of the files listed as "Missing" in each fic pack's README file. (usually fanart)