Just a few days ago, denise posted to the fail_fandomanon community a warning about the likelihood of English-language LiveJournal posts being summarily deleted by the Russian owners of LJ.

Well, I ported over my whole LJ blog to DW when I started here, comments and all. So I wasn't worried about that. However, I did check on a couple of communities I'd been involved with. Some had full back-ups on DW.

But what about fkficfest?

When Fk Fic Fest started, it was wholly on LJ the first year; and, when brightknightie decided to run it on DW as well, she didn't port over the LJ site. Instead, she ran the two in parallel for a while. This means that stories posted to fkficfest in 2010 do not have copies here. A lot of people did later import or crosspost to AO3. However, I never imported "Attachments", the story I wrote for that very first year. Nor did I ever put it on my website.

Limitations on the length of LJ posts meant that "Attachments", which is some 60K words long, had to be cut up into nine chunks, each of which was posted separately. I wasn't sure how that would come out in an import. (I mean, I wanted them all together! It's one story!)

Well, it turns out that LJ imports nowadays can handle that sort of thing. Anyone who's not read "Attachments" in its original form can now find it here on AO3.

This is Natalie's take on the whole of Forever Knight, from her first encounter with Nick in the flashback to "Only the Lonely" right through to her last diary entry just before she heads over to the loft in "Last Knight". It's told through her secret diary, notes sent to Nick (and notes not sent to Nick but recovered later from her computer), letters to family, e-mails, Christmas cards—you name it!

Also there are my usual "Notes" at the end. A lot, since I extended plot arcs across episodes as well as filling in the gaps between seasons.

Once it was safely on AO3, I reread it. I was staggered to find that so many little things got slipped into the story in passing that, years later, were expanded into full-length fic. Quite a few of those stories were written for later iterations of fkficfest. Yet, when I wrote them, I had no memory that their genesis lay in the work I'd put into organizing "Attachments". It seems to have proved a veritable warren of baby plot bunnies.