SquidgeWorld Archive

Per the details of the SquidgeWorld Monthly contest post, here are the winners for September, 2021:

Random story chosen:
On September 20th, user Ceindreadh began posting a WIP called "A case of unintended consequences"

Random commenter chosen:
On September 6th, user CJAB1234 posted a comment on a story by Mirrored_Illusions called "One Foot In Front of the Other"

All three winners, Ceindreadh, CJAB1234, and Mirrored_Illusions won a $10 gift card of their choice based on contest details. They will be contacted soon!

Per the details of the SquidgeWorld Monthly Contest post, here are the winners for August, 2021:

Random story chosen:
On August 15th, user GHSamMcCallFan posted a fic called Heaven Is Your Arms

Random commenter chosen:
On August 3rd, anonymous user Rachel posted a comment on an orphaned work called The Final Posse

Both GHSamMcCallFan and Rachel have won a $10 gift card, but because Rachel's comment was on an orphaned work, the person who created the original story is unknown. Congrats GHSamMcCallFan and Rachel!

A result of SquidgeWorld's previous life as Peja's WWOMB is that "combination" fandoms exist in the archive. In The WWOMB you could choose a single fandom called "NCIS/The West Wing" instead of choosing both fandoms, and that was fine at the time.

But because of the new archive, these old multi-fandoms mean a person wanting to read an NCIS story would miss ones using the NCIS/The West Wing fandom. So, I've undertaken a project to get rid of these, even in older stories. So there are some combination fandom fics that are15 years old, but they'll be updated by me, breaking them from the single combination fandom to multiple distinct fandoms.

Questions?

Per the details of the SquidgeWorld Monthly Contest, here are the winners for July 2021:

Random story chosen:
On July 25th, user merelyafigment posted a fic called Captured

Random commenter chosen:
On July 3rd, an anonymous user going by "Laurence" left a comment on Cas's fic called In The Arms Of An Angel

Congratulations to merelyafigment, Laurence, and Cas! I will be in touch asap with details about your win and gift offering.

There has been some discussion over on Dreamwidth (at this link) about possibly adding works in the public domain as a secondary exception to the "No links to Patreon, Ko-Fi, etc" rule. Looking through the "Books and Literature" section of fandoms, there are several that caught my eye, such as The Bible, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, among others. Before I make a decision on this, I would like to hear from SquidgeWorld users.

If this goes through, then public domain fandoms would be updated to have "[Public Domain]" as part of the fandom name (or something similar).

Please give me your thoughts on this. Thanks!

I've updated the Terms of Service for SquidgeWorld.org archive. You can find the details here, but in a nutshell, it's explicitly stated that users may not link to any money-making properties such as KoFi or Patreon with very, very limited exceptions.

Per the details of the SquidgeWorld Monthly Contest, here are the winners for June 2021:

Random story chosen:
On June 13th, user mbozzo posted a fic called A Mystery Killing In The Police Station

Random commenter chosen:
On June 7th, an anonymous user going by "Kim Lindsay" left a wonderful comment on Karen_Sumners's fic from 2008 (!!!!!) called Airs from Heaven or Blasts from Hell.

Congratulations to mbozzo, Kim Lindsay, and Karen_Sumners! I will be in touch asap with details about your win and gift offering.

Many thanks to Dreamwidth user jesse-the-k for putting together this primer on "Making AO3 Easier to Read", and then allowing me to post a link to it here on SquidgeWorld. If you're interested, jessie-the-k put it together in their Dreamwidth entry. You can find it here: https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/377083.html