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We are the home of 132 authors from among our 732 members. There have been 1265 reviews written about our 822 stories consisting of 982 chapters and 4792841 words. A special welcome to our newest member, Tara Fleur.
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Little Death by Saavant ADULT
Spock is going into pon farr again, and he has a shocking request for Kirk.
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Love in Pieces by silvertoekee All Audiences
Love doesn’t always form easily sometimes it comes in bits and pieces.
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UPDATE: June 22nd, 2009 The site admin is moving for the next few days. Please be patient; story submissions and archive support requests will be handled as soon as possible. The generous and lovely Lyrastar and CatalenaMara will be assisting with story validation in her absence, but support requests may take longer.

UPDATE: May 29th, 2009 *draws hearts around Robin* Favorite Authors is now working.

UPDATE: May 23rd, 2009 HUGE update, guys. The archive has now been brought into the 21st century, thanks to my Kirk-like stubbornness and the help of Robin Serrano (again! my hero!) and a certain guy who may have to get homemade cookies.

Lots and lots of new stuff here. The most important one is that there is now a new classification for stories called "Universe." Because we did not have the capabliity to use Classifications before, you will notice that all the stories in the archive are currently set to Universe: None except for the handful of AU/Mirror stories and the ST:XI (aka 2009 Abrams-verse) stories posted in the last week or so, which I classified myself.

This means it's up to each author to edit their own stories to add the Universe classification. I ask you to please, please do this if you have a few moments -- my plan is to clean up the stragglers in a month or so, but it would greatly save time for me if you would classify your own stories.

For the purposes of the archive, if the story takes place entirely in the XI universe (post timeline shift) then it's ST:XI. If it intersects with the original universe and/or includes any of the other original universe characters (other than Spock) then it's a crossover. Please choose the Universe that best fits your story, then choose a crossover fandom if it seems appropriate.

What this means is that if you would like to search on only ST:TOS stories or only ST:XI stories, you now can. Click on the Titles link in the menu or use the Advanced Search feature to choose which universe(s) you're interested in. You can either search for only one universe, or eliminate any that don't interest you.

Other new features:

  • You can now start or participate in story challenges.
  • There are now classifications for Crossover Fandom and Story Type.
  • We can add more classifications in the future if necessary.
  • You can now post stories with a coauthor.
  • The tinyMCE WYSIWYG editor will now allow you to format your stories with a visual editor. This should help a lot with formatting issues, and make it much easier to use bold, italics, etc.
  • The Top Tens feature will show you top ten stories and authors in a number of categories.
  • On the sidebar is a pulldown which will let you choose one of three skins. The bold red one is called "boldlygo," while "blanc" is a nice clean, dark type on white layout for those who prefer it. "teal_deer" is in cool blues if that's more to your reading taste.
  • You can now put stories in a series. To do this, add your stories individually first, then create a new series from the Account Info -> Manage Series page, then add the stories to it and choose what order they go in.
  • If you go to Account Info, you can now Edit Preferences and make an age statement which will enable you to bypass warning popups for adult content. (Works only in Internet Explorer.)
  • There is now a "Report This" button at the bottom of each member profile, so that if you come across a bogus or spam account, you can easily report it to the admins and we can delete it.
  • The archive is considerably more secure in general and should be much less prone to attack and spam.
  • Due to structural changes in the databases between versions, the counter that showed how many times a story had been read cannot be brought into the new version of the archive. The new counter will continue to function, but the old values are not salvageable.

Other changes:

Since it is now possible to mark stories "Complete" when posting, the policy against posting Works in Progress is lifted. You may now post chaptered WIPs to the archive. Please:

  • Make sure that you post each new part as a new chapter to make it easier for readers to follow.
  • Make sure you set the category to Works in Progress, and ONLY Works in Progress. When the story is finished, you can add the Fiction category to the complete story.
  • Make sure you don't mark the story complete until it is finished.

There are a lot of other cool, nifty new features here, and there may be some minor bugs as we get caught up with the new software. Please let me know if you have any questions or problems, and have fun!

Now on to the regular welcome message...

Welcome to the Kirk/Spock Automated Archive! Here, you will find stories, poetry, and essays about Kirk and Spock. All works in the archive feature the Kirk and Spock relationship as a key element. (Please see the Help page for more details and specifics.) Please note: If you post work to the archive that does not meet this description, it will regretfully be deleted. Real Person Fiction (RPF) is not permitted in this archive.

Please read the FAQs for more information about how to format your story for posting before you begin.

From Killa, your archivist:
A huge thank you to Robin Serrano at Slashcity for her tremendous help in getting this set up, and to Lyrastar for assistance above and beyond the call. My hope is that this archive will remain a central resource for K/S and Kirk-Spock fiction online.

If, after reading the Help FAQs, you're still confused about how to use the archive, please e-mail me, and I will do my level best to help you. Please spread the word, and upload your work as soon as you can! Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions for making this a better archive.

Wondering how to get started? Use the Categories page to choose which kind of text you're interested in, then sort all the items in that category by Universe, Author, Title, Keyword, Category, Genre, Warnings, Characters, or Ratings. If you're looking for a specific story and can remember something about it, or if you'd like to search for stories of a particular type, try the Search page. You don't need to register or log in to read the stories. To upload a story, you will need to create a Login account. See the Help page for FAQs and more information.

Feedback feeds the fanfic writer's soul! Please use the Contact or Review feature to let them know what you thought.

A note to Mac users:
When using the site, if the instructions call for holding down the Control key, use the Command key instead. Also, Firefox is recommended for uploading stories on a Mac.

A note about story ratings:
This site has three ratings for content:
All Audiences - appropriate for all ages
Mature Content - appropriate for those 13 and up
ADULT - appropriate for adults only.
These ratings are chosen by the authors.

Happy reading!

Site News

5/31/2009 Remaining issues:

The Warning Pop-up behavior (and the ability to turn it off by making an age statement) only seems to work properly in Internet Explorer. This is a known issue in eFiction.

Challenges are working, but admin access to add stories to the challenges is not. This is a known bug with eFiction 3.5.1. All other issues have been resolved to the best of my knowledge, so please let me know if you experience any other problems.

Favorite Stories and Series are working, but Favorite Author is not. Fixed.

 

Fixed 5/25/2009:

Challenges seem to be working now.

I edited the .css so that the links that appear on red (in the story title bar, etc.) are now lighter and more easily read on dark monitors.

Restored all of kira nerys's fic and poetry that I was able to find online and in my own archives.

Deleted "Kirk" and "Spock" from the list of Characters. Let's assume every story in the archive involves Kirk and Spock, or it shouldn't be here. This field is best used by readers trying to find a particular story when they only remember some of the particulars, so authors may use it to give more info about their story to make it easier to find. Field is now optional.

 

Fixed 5/24/2009:

Hello all, just letting you know that I've updated the Help, TOS, Rules and FAQs. All the links should work and the new docs should reflect the archive changes.

Regarding the story counts from the previous version of the archive, I'm very sorry but the way the new version counts visits/reads of a particular story is not the same as the old version, so I cannot recover the old story counts. If for some reason you really need to know what they were for your stories, let me know and I can tell you.

I also just fixed the annoying thing where clicking on a story title would take you to a story index page and then you had to click again to read the story. Now, clicking on a title should take you right to the story. If it doesn't, and you want it to, make sure you go to Account Info -> Edit Preferences and click off "Display table of contents for stories."

I simplified the "Universes" classifications and added a classification for "Crossover Fandom," so you can use a combination of those two classes to accurately reflect the content of your story. For example, I classified "Bitter Glass" as ST:TOS, but added "ST:TNG" as a crossover fandom, since a small portion of the story deals with TNG and Picard makes an appearance. If you have a Crossover Fandom you need added to the list, let me know.

I added a new Main Category for Works in Progress. Please use it where appropriate. :)

I added a new Classification for Story Type.

Please let me know if you find any broken links or experience any other problems.

Thank you again for all your help and patience.



--Killa on 05/24/2009 3:57 PM 0 Comments