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We don't put pastebin fics on the archive unless they have a dedicated thread on the forums

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you meant you had something to add to my collection, not the other way around. Yeah, I can't help you there then.

In your absence we created an archive for the fan fiction section of the forums.
I suppose i could make an entry for "Doomish's old shit" and link this thread.

What about "Girl iInterpreted". Wasn't that one of yours, Doomish?

I had archived a selection of Doomish's work for my own reference. It looks like I managed to salvage some of the works that he didn't, so after I saw this post, I contacted Doomish for his go-ahead to provide it, and he said it was okay.

I think, for the most part, they were just copied from the forums, so any formatting or side comments was lost, but the actual meat of the stories should be there.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/rvlyd ... anfics.zip

OtakuNinja wrote:What about "Girl iInterpreted". Wasn't that one of yours, Doomish?

You can find it in the 'Stories about Girl' folder. I had a couple of those.

Alright, here's the final update to it. I THINK I have everything now. I've updated the link in the OP and the one in my signature.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ktaus ... 282%29.rar

Thanks to Prof. Allister and JTC545 for helping me finish it out, you were both a big help.

I'll put this entry later today. Anyone wants to help with the remarks?

There's something I've considered saying for a while now, ever since Doomish started taking down his stories, and pulled away from the community a while back. It isn't an accusation, or an attempt at salvaging what was there, or even a desperate attempt to show him it's worth leaving them up. None of that would matter, and it's been done, to almost no effect. At least now there's an archive file available, and a half-interested apology for the tantrum that led to the eradication of his posts.

I don't claim to know what really happened in his life, and I'm not going to make any empty promises about providing support because I'm in no position to lend it, nor do I think he needs to be told it was a dick move. Having spoken to him in chat and through voice over Steam in the past, I know Doomish is intelligent, thoughtful, and stable enough to have figured all that out the moment he took down the first story--whichever one that was--or perhaps even beforehand.

Perhaps I'm taking some liberties with my lead up here, but I want it on record that I mean no ill will toward any author who--even if he doubted himself later--was willing to publish something that probably generated more hate mail than praise. It's my own failing that I've always had a tendency to come around to a conclusion long after losing the attention span of my audience, but that's just how I am. No doubt most of you have skipped down to the end out of frustration, or because you have a train to catch, or because your boss just walked in and you can't be caught browsing "that stupid forum" again.

Anyway, back in June of last year--2012--after I had read through the VN, and done some browsing through various pages of the forums here, I found my way onto the fan-fiction section and started doing some additional reading. There's a lot of hit or miss on the forum here, and some of it is downright deplorable, which nearly turned me away from the whole fan-fiction section. That was until I ran across a horrifying little tale about the entire cast being trapped in some kind of gruesome prison.

Having heard proclamations of its shoddy workmanship and gratuitous violence in the time since I met the author--from the author himself--I avoided mentioning this fact, but, since he's leaving and probably doesn't care anymore, I'm gonna go ahead and admit that it was "With Apologies to Harlon Ellison" that made me want to try writing again.

Basically, you can all blame Doomish for my continued presence.

That is all.

Basically, you can all blame Doomish for my continued presence.

If that's so, may he get all the blame there is!

And also thanks to Doomish, it's nice being finally able to read this stuff.

For what it's worth, thanks Doomish.

Read through a couple so and gotta say I really enjoyed "Mirror, Mirror". Even with an imgur link to a nice drawing.

I come back 3 weeks later and this has happened!
Missing all the good stuff seems to be my forte. I shall now endevour never to download that file, as previously reading the last fic you posted kinda scarred me a bit.
Still, glad to see you back. At leas the archive will be more complete.

Sea wrote: I shall now endevour never to download that file, as previously reading the last fic you posted kinda scarred me a bit.

That would be a mistake. Doomish has written a lot of excellent work. A good deal (but not all) of it is unpleasant, yes. But it's still worth reading.

I would recommend the following approach: Take a shot of Doomish's work, then chase it down with something sweet, like a one-shot by Scissorlips or YourFavAnon.

But whatever you do, don't swear off reading anything by an author due to a single bad experience.

I can attest, having downloaded that file, that binging Doomish's works is a bad idea. Avoiding them altogether is a worse idea.

I cried a little while reading the With Apologies to Harlan Ellison story.

I have an archive of Doomish stuff, if you posted what he's missing I could check it I guess?