#Archive migration

[hjbender]

I’m bad at tumblr and haven’t used it since I was a teen, so I’m sorry if this isn’t the place to do this. That being said, is there any chance of you uploading the rest of your Ghost Rider fics to AO3? I really enjoyed those and I can’t seem to find them now. I know the fandom is kinda dead, but there’s gotta be more than me who would appreciate seeing those again, I think. If there’s a reason you haven’t, that’s fine, I understand. Thank you for your awesome work over the years!

Hey, no problem, thanks for reaching out to me!

Yeah, my website updated its PHP software a few months ago and the eFiction software I used to run my personal archive is no longer compatible with it, so the archive won't run anymore. The eFiction software hasn't been updated in years and may be on the verge of dying out altogether; I've noticed a lot of the old web archives that used to run on eFic have pretty much all migrated over to AO3.

In any case, I have all my stories backed up on my hard drive and I've been meaning to offload some of them to AO3, and this was the perfect reminder for me to do that. I'll start moving some of the smaller fics over in the next week or so before finishing with the large ones!

[gremmlingamer]

[mywastelandperfection]

[zeloznog]

[teddypoi-qd]

unrelated to any events lately

[eldresh]

Wake up one morning and decide "screw it, I'll make a Tumblr account" only to realize apparently a bunch of other redditors did the same thing. And folks here on Tumblr have been very welcoming and putting up guides and stuff on how to use this confusing spiderweb of a website.

Which is super helpful because let me tell you I was not expecting half of this entire website to also be freaking out along with me when I found out that AO3 was down because of a DDOS attack.

[ttrianro]

brain eating amoeba died of starvation, how crazy

[melabea]

migrating pod/migrating group! | stationary pod/stationary group!

a term for pods/groups of seafolk (cecaelias, merfolk, etc) who travel/migrate from territory to territory for any reason!

a term for pods/groups of seafolk who stay in the same territory/territories for any reason!

originally made for misceseafolk (link) users (& more specifically koramers (link)), but can be used by any seafolk!

symbols from photopea!

tagging; @radiomogai!

[bspoquemagazine]

🎨 The Hidden Archive – eine Ausstellung über Erinnerung, Kunst & Widerstandskraft. Ab 20. Juni in der @ifagalleryberlin: Entdecke die Geschichte der zeitgenössischen senegalesischen Malerei von 1960–1990 – kuratiert von @akyasy. Basierend auf einem familiären Archiv und dem kollektiven Gedächtnis zeigt Survival Kit Werke aus deutschen Museumssammlungen – viele erstmals öffentlich. 🗓️ Eröffnung: 19. Juni 2025, 19 Uhr 📍 Linienstraße 139/140, Berlin 📅 Ausstellung bis 24. August #TheHiddenArchive #SurvivalKit #KenAïchaSy #ifaGalleryBerlin #ifaGalerien #ContemporaryAfricanArt #SenegaleseArt #ArchiveAsResistance #RestitutionNow #KunstInBerlin #ifaExhibition #AfricanArchives #ElHadjiSy #ArtAsHeritage

[spacealligator]

geez, I'm cross posting my fics from ao3 to ffn but as of now the only comments I got are all people trying to sell me their art commisions or people calling me gay slurs, I'd rather not have any comments at all what's the problem with these people?

[kitkatt0430]

Instead of doing a Six Sentence Sunday today, I think I'll do a short tutorial on copying over fanfic from FFnet to Ao3.

So you've got some old fics on FFnet and you'd like to back them up to Ao3, given the instability of FFnet. And for whatever reason you don't have the original files for the fics, or maybe you have edits to the FFnet versions that you don't want to lose that the OG files don't have. Whatever the reason, you're looking to directly copy over your fic from FFnet to Ao3. And you're looking for a relatively easy way to do so, but Ao3's import functionality doesn't work with FFnet web pages.

Never fear! It's actually a fairly easy process to get your fic copied over from FFnet.

First, head over to FFnet and open up the fic you want to port over to Ao3. You don't need to log in if you don't want to, just so long as the fic in question is yours and you can access the page, then you're good.

In a separate tab, open Ao3 and login, then choose the option for posting a new work.

Now back on the FFnet tab, you should be able to directly copy over the title, summary, fandom, and what little tagging was available on that site onto the relevant Ao3 fields in the tab you have for a new fic. You'll also want to take note of the published date on FFnet and back date the new work in the Ao3 tab.

FFnet may not have a lot of useful tag data, but it's pretty easy to replicate and build off that in Ao3.

Now for the hard part. Which is still pretty easy. Getting the fic body, plus any notes in the fic itself, copied over to FFnet.

While getting around FFnet's lockdown on the text of the fics they host is fairly simple - I'm pretty sure it's entirely css based - you don't really need to do that in order to get the body of your fic copied. And, honestly, even if you do have a work around in place to allow copying of the fic's text... you will probably find the following method a lot easier still.

In the body of the fic, right click the first line of the fic, which should bring up a menu with a bunch of options. On Firefox or Chrome you want the inspect option.

This'll bring up the dev tools with the html inspection tab open and, if you give it a few seconds to load, the specific line you right clicked to inspect should become the visibly selected section of the html.

The selected section of the html should be a paragraph (or <p>) element. You're going to want to right click the div (<div>) element that encapsulates that paragraph and the rest of the paragraphs in the fic body. This'll bring up another browser menu with the option to copy, which will bring up a flyout menu when you select it. From that flyout menu, you want the select the option for Inner HTML.

You have officially copied the html for the fic body. And you can dump that entirely in html format straight into Ao3's html work text editor. Then switch it to rich text for easier editing if you want to fix any spelling, grammar, formatting, or aesthetic issues. I typically try to fix at least the line breaks since it took a long while before FFnet adopted real line breaks and so there are a lot of fics where I have various combinations of dashes, em-dashes, equals signs, and other characters as line breaks. I figure, if I'm bringing the fic to Ao3 then I can try to make it more screen reader friendly in the process.

You can also move fic notes around in order to move pre/post fic notes out of the fic body or basically whatever you want to the fic. Maybe re-read it to determine any additional tagging you want to add now that your fic has access to Ao3's much more robust tagging system.

But that's it. You can hit post and have your fic with all it's original notes, and a back dated post date to reflect when it was actually written, all available on Ao3 now.

It's a pretty quick process, all told, and the only real bottleneck you might encounter is any time spent in re-editing the fic between migrating and posting. Even chaptered fics are fairly easy to migrate with this process, since the bulk of the work in publishing a new chapter is just copying the inner html and then moving any notes to the appropriate location before hitting post.

Anyway, for my fellow fic writers looking to move your old FFnet fics to a more stable archive, I hope this process helps a lot.

[papyrussemi]

[gremmlingamer]

[digitalnewberry]

The Great Migration & "The Negro in the city" lantern slides, 1922?

Women at dressmaking class, St. Mark's Church, Chicago, 1922?

This set of lantern slides documents the daily life of African Americans during the early years of the Great Migration from the rural American South, as well as outreach activities conducted by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) to assist them with finding work and social services. The first slides show scenes of Black sharecroppers picking cotton and processing sugar. Other slides show African Americans at work in northern cities.

A majority of the slides show African American Methodist Episcopal church buildings in cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., as well as community houses run by the MEC. Other slides show African Americans engaged in job training, such as sewing and dressmaking, and in worship and recreational activities. More information from the Newberry catalog

Congregants at morning service, East Calgary Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1922?

In “The Great Migration, Reconsidered,” scholars Dr. Lionel Kimble, Dr. Courtney Pierre Joseph, and Dr. Matthew Cressler examine the complex legacy of this period.

Dr. Joseph notes that many Black families did not stay in the original city they arrived in, but continued to move around the country. “Black people are migratory and they move a lot to where best suits their needs and desires… Voting with your feet, being able to go where your voice can be heard.” These lantern slides show us an early snapshot of the Great Migration across the nation, some people on their first stop of many, with images of labor, family, and hope.

View "The Negro in the city" lantern slides

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[enyaah]

M- me wh-

Me wehn mr. Kitty bites me after petting him (he's a sadistic mother fucker that wants to see the world burn but COME ON HE S JUST A LIL GUY HE S HARMLESS I MEAN LOOK AT HI-

You fucker bit me again, didn't you?)

[yogodyolive]

I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW I WAS HERE BEFORE THE GREAT REDDIT MIGRATION OF 196

as someone who’s been here for a few years (I think), i have a petition to make tumblr give everybody who was here on tumblr before the great reddit migration their own special badge, (like a little frog, a crab, maybe even a brick, or a blorbo, ), (or some other og reference) at the end of their name that you can hover over

I WANT MY SUPERIORITY TO BE KNOWN BITCHES, GIVE ME THY BADGE, BECAUSE TUMBLR IS GETTING A LIL TOO MAINSTREAM FOR MY LIKING, AND I NEED THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING THAT I WAS HERE BEFORE THESE PLEEBS