She's got three stories up at gatchfanfic, and they are wonderful stories. I suggest everyone go check them out. http://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewuser.php?uid=749

Thanks, Amethyst... Um, so much for just trying to slip them in unnoticed...! I just submitted them, so I don't know when (or if) they'll be accepted and available for reading... I should warn everyone...they do involve Red Impulse...

They're up and all have at least 5 reads. Just finished rereading them. You've captured both Nambu and Red Impulse brilliantly, making each a more rounded and sympathetic character than they are often shown in canon.

Woohoo!! Go you!!! Yes - they are there, and ready for reading. Which I for one will be doing when I get home from work today. I'm glad you're writing more - you know I love your work.

I look forward to finding time to read them as well RIgirl. I saw they were listed over at the Gatch. Archives and no you can not slip things past us ... there are too many eyes watching. Of course knowing the Archives like I do, I would probably do like you did and send them in and then wait to make my announcement AFTER they were posted. (And then probably miss them being posted and someone else beats me to the announcement. )

Stories from RI!!! Something to come home from work to! Plus all the fun here, of course! Yep, today would be the day I get up late and am running out the door *sigh* Oh, wait, I tend to do that a lot *snigger*

Just read the Nambu one and loved it. I'm not as good at reading the Gatchaman stories as I am the BotP stories, but I really liked this. It made me have a sense of humanity for not just Nambu but for all the characters. I'll get around to leaving a real review at some point and reading the other two also. Congratulations, RI, on your first posting at Gatchfanfic.

Oh, wow, gee. Thanks everyone, for your support. Did not know they had been accepted...nope...thought I had a few days, at least... Guess I'm the last one to know!

Rigirl, those were GREAT!

RIGirll, I just finished your stories and I am very impressed. You've really done a fantastic job weaving in an intriguing background for the series. Your stories fit nicely into canon, and your writing style flows well. Great job!

I'm looking forward to read your fics, RIgirl! I know how well you can get deep into RI's character, together with his friendship with Dr. Nambu! I'm surely in for a treat, but I don't know if I'll have the time to read them during these couple of days ... loads of work! ... starting countdown ...

Um... went to go read them and they're gone.....??? *sniffle and sob*

Yes - I found that too!!!! Damn!!

I just noticed that as well. There appear to be a lot of new stories suddenly. I guess we will have to use the link at the top of this thread.

It looks like I've been de-listed from Gatchfanfic too.... Guessing it's a glitch and I'm sure the admins will fix ASAP...

I've been delisted too, and all 6 of my stories are gone! It's as if I never was there. Darn! I have a friend who is not a fan who was reading my stuff there. Green, did you contact the mods? How do I let them know what happened.

I went ahead and contacted them. Hopefully they can reenstate all of us that were delisted. I don't know if it was any other authors besides Green, RIgirl and I. I think it had something to do with their new anti-spam software or something like that. Still it's sad that those of us who lost our accounts may have to resubscribe and repost our stories. That's a lot of work. Then there's all the lost hits and reviews, and the more I think about it, the sadder I get.

Yikes, what a pain!!! I hope your stories and accounts are still "there" in some way and just not showing up, and that Julieann can restore them!

Originally posted by lborgia88 I hope your stories and accounts are still "there" in some way and just not showing up, and that Julieann can restore them!

I hope so, too! I have just tried to peek in and read one of RIgirl's new fics, but I've found the same thing! Darn ... I really was looking forward, now that I've found some spare time for myself! Again ... I hope that this problem will be fixed ASAP!

I just found out about this! I'm sorry to find out that this happened to other people, too. I'm so close to crying right now, you have no idea... I can't tell you what a shock it was to see not only everything gone...but I couldn't even get in! I hope they can straighten this out soon. And to make things worse, my e-mail server is having problems, so if they try to contact I have no way of knowing! Computers are wonderful, until things go wrong...

I don't understand at all what happened, but I am sorry for all of you. If you email Julieann I know she will fix it. ETA: RIGirl, did you post the fics on fanfiction.net ? Perhaps people can read them that way.

TJ -- I only posted at gatchfanfic and, for me anyways, that was a big deal. I'm so not computer literate! But I guess if gatchfanfic doesn't want me anymore, I won't have any choice but to look into it or other alternatives...sigh... It figures that the one time I go out on a limb and do something completely out of character for me, something like this would happen!

Don't take too personally, RI. They got more than just you and I. Green's account is gone too. I really think it had somethng to do with a security upgrade they did. I've been having some weird e-mail trouble too and I wonder if that has caused some of the problem. They were trying to do something that validated e-mail addresses and if our e-mail is screwed up, it might come back as invalid. I e-mailed them and hopefully they will be able to fix it. I won't be able to check my e-mail till tonight about 9:00 because of having to go to parent night at the high school tonight.

I emailed them, too, Garnet. Hopefully, they'll re-try the email addresses again. I'd hate to think I lost everything because something completely out of my control went awry. It seems that the internet server for my email account was just fixed, so with any hope...

Originally posted by RIgirl But I guess if gatchfanfic doesn't want me anymore, I won't have any choice but to look into it or other alternatives...sigh... It figures that the one time I go out on a limb and do something completely out of character for me, something like this would happen!

RIgirl ... I'm sure that's not the case! Please do not be discouraged by the way things went at your first attempt ... the incident surely wasn't connected to your posting, or to you! I know ... life can reserve us tricks that hit us where, and when, we're most vulnerable, but, you'll see ... things will get into place soon! From what I've already heard, your fics are wonderful and were enjoyed by all who have already read them ... I just have to wait with increasing expectancy to read them!

They had someone who completely spammed their forum board over the last few weeks. I'm thinking that in cleaning this up it may have tweaked the efiction. If they had to revert back to a certain point, it could happen. I know efiction pretty well, but I don't know about the tie-in to the forum board. What baffles me is Green being gone as she should have been there long enough to not be affected.

RIGirl, this is no reflection on your or your writing! It sucks, but it has nothing to do with your stories! You write extremely well!

Originally posted by Transmute Jun RIGirl, this is no reflection on your or your writing! It sucks, but it has nothing to do with your stories! You write extremely well!

I agree! I guarantee it would be posted at Sycophant Hex which has a reputation for being extremely picky.

Green, RIgirl and Garnet. I am so sorry to hear about your troubles. RIgirl please do not take what happened as a sign that you should stop trying to get your stories out there, your writing is lovely. I hope the problem can be corrected quickly. Let us know when it is.

RIgirl, trust me. It's NOT you. Your stories were marvelous. Gatchfanfic had a minor glitch about four-five months ago. I couldn't search a story, even though I could access it through the author's page. They got that fixed up well within a week. It happens very occasionally. DON'T worry about. And from previous comments, I would say that this is a case of a spammer making things worse for everyone else.

Julieann e-mailed me and said that she had just done a major spam purge and it looks like I was caught up in it. She's going to fix it ASAP, so to all the others that seem to be affected, if you just drop her a line, she'll know what she needs to do....

Thank you for letting us know Green.

Yep. Got a very similar message. She said she was going to try to fix it tonight. Hope she can. I'd really rather not have to spend my few days off re-uploading my stories. Plus, I don't think I saved my chapter divisions for Divided. Don't want to think about having to split them out again.

I'm with you, Garnet! The thought of having to do all of that, all over again makes me slightly sick, and you had more to lose than I did. I still feel like crying when I think about it, so I know how you feel. Problem is, like I told UW, the longer I have to think about it, the more I think maybe I should just leave things alone. Like maybe this was a sign or something...

Don't you dare think that way, RI. Do SJ and I have to come up there and kick your tailfeathers? We're the closest, ya know. It was bad timing. Some jerkwad spammed them last night and now we, the innocent, are paying the price. That's how it is with spammers. They play and everyone else pays. I had something similar happen when I was on one of the Lord of the Rings archives. Anything that got posted after a certain date got blown away. They were finally able to restore everything except for stuff posted right at the time they were hit. I'm trying to have faith that we'll be lucky and she can fix everything tonight. Please repost, if your stories aren't restored. You are a Very Good writer, and I'm not just saying that. If I'm willing to go through that mess of reposting, and my stories aren't nearly as good, or apealing, as yours; the least you can do is put yours back up so that all those who didn't get to read them can. Just my two cents.

I'm a good ass kicker, ya know, Lee ... I'm pissed off because I didn't get a chance to read them yet .. was going to do it on my lunch break today at work ... Was so excited for some RI goodness ... sighhhhhhh Glad you liked the ending to our game, babe ... I already have several ideas for our next one ... HAHA!!

Naughty RIgirl!! Naughty, naughty naughty!! It's not a sign, and it's not the universe out to get you (actually, it's out to get Green - but don't tell her that because the Universe is still working out how to get past the knives ). You write beautifully - and I'd love to see more of it outside the IF (hell - I'd love to see more of it IN the IF!). I know you have massive self-confidence issues, sweetie, but please stop angsting about this glitch meaning you shouldn't have posted your writing. It happens - hell, it happened a few years ago when Sam and Lyon had to do a spam cleanout of Birdgo - there were about a half dozen of us who got caught and deleted. I have to tell you, I was so looking forward to reading those fics of yours. I really do mean it when I say I love your writing (and if anybody hasn't read any of RIgirls stuff - go check out the Gatchamaniacs IF and read some of it - especially the wedding stuff. I had tears in my eyes it was so beautiful). You manage to get into the characters minds so well - even to the point of a few of us now having a very distinct fondness for Colonel Cronus - and take those characters from two to three dimensional. This is no small feat, and a number of very expereinced and published writers struggle with it. In addition - you paint the most beautiful word pictures. Your background in writing poetry (and yes - I want to see some of that as well) means that you have the ability to choose the words that really do tell a story - the words that paint vivid pictures. <------ I shall borrow TJ's pokey stick to try to get you writing more!

I think how much will be lost will depend on how there system was backed-up, both normally and before the purge. Either way it is a pain for everyone. I can tell you this, there is not an author on this forum board whose stuff would not be accepted at SH for plot reasons. There are a few who might be asked to make SPaG corrections before posting (RI, your's would be a clean post or maybe even a we've posted but would you mind making these few corrections [there wouldn't be many] letter). Heck if you want to register tonight or tomorrow and post, I'd could probably get them validated within a few minutes (though, I kinda need to ask permission to skip a little rule -- we aren't supposed to admin stories we've beta'd; being the only admin that admittedly knows the fandom, I'd be the one called to work it though. Don't ya just love those situations). Just let me know if you or anyone else wants to take me up. I'll get you the url for the site. UW, this would be another great place to post your original work.

RIgirl, I know how you feel about the board rejection your stuff is a sign. I think if it were me, and it had happened a few years ago when I first posted, I too would have felt that way as well - the universe is telling me what I am writing is no good. But please, please, please do not take it to heart. I have been encouraged to continue trying, by many several people on this board and now I feel I need to turn around and do some encouraging. From what I am reading, it looks like everyone wants to read your stories and you can include me on that list as well. I do not read anything from the IF but I will really enjoy reading anything about Cronus and Nambu. I really want to see what you have to say about those two and how you have developed their characters. Besides I am hoping all three of you will be lucky and not only will your accounts reappear but also all the stories you have submitted as well. *fingers crossed*

I got an e-mail a little while ago and went and checked the site. Green and I are back. I PM'ed RI to make sure she has let Julieanne know that her stuff was gone too. Hopefully all of us will soon be back in our proper places soon. I know I'm totally relieved that I don't have repost everything.

Ame, what is SH and what's the URL. I think I may be registered there but not sure.

SH is Sycophant Hex. The main URL is www.sycophanthex.com There are multiple archives. The direct url for Chaos, which houses original work and non-hp fandoms is www.chaos.sycophanthex.com or www.sycophanthex.com/chaos I think either will work but not positive. Maddy, I didn't see you in the member list at either Lumos or Eros & Sappho (the main HP archive or the slash). The one downside to SH is each archive has separate registration, but when we tried to fix that, everything else fell apart and our users hated it (we weren't to fond of it either).

Garnet and Green ... I'm so happy for you! I hope that RIgirl's situation will stabilised again soon also!

RIgirl, I got to read your work before the Gatchfanfic problems. It's great! If you don't ask Julieann to look into your stories problem, I'll ask her myself! That's how highly I think of your work!

Originally posted by RIgirl I just found out about this! I'm sorry to find out that this happened to other people, too. I'm so close to crying right now, you have no idea... I can't tell you what a shock it was to see not only everything gone...but I couldn't even get in! I hope they can straighten this out soon. And to make things worse, my e-mail server is having problems, so if they try to contact I have no way of knowing! Computers are wonderful, until things go wrong...

Julieann here. Yes, this was a part of the big spam problem. Several accounts were affected, and I'm expecting to hear about even more. The good news is that the stories, reviews and information is all still there. The bad news is that I have to recreate a sign-in account to connect it all up again. For that I need one of two things: 1. An account that was created before July 17. If so, then I have the exact account information and the recreation is really easy. 1. The author ID number. This would have been located at the end of the URL if viewing the author page. Then I would need to piece together the account, but any author bio would be lost (sorry). I looked into your situation, RIgirl, and I'm afraid in your case I have to do the second option. Does anyone here who may have looked at RIgirl's author page still have the URL in their browser history? If so, can you forward it to me? It would be greatly appreciated. Then I can get the account put back to together this weekend. By the way, I'm in the midst of upgrading all the software. I'm hoping it will help stop the big spam problem we've been having. The forum and the gallery are now upgraded. Now the big one is ahead: the fanfic archive. There is currently gibberish on the top of the home page. this was caused by the upgrade in the gallery software and how it connects up to the fanfic software. I won't be able to resolve it until the archive software is upgraded. I'm sorry about the annoyance. Julieann

Julieann - it's in the first post of this thread.

Originally posted by Madilayn Julieann - it's in the first post of this thread.

Gee, that would have been simpler. I went through the database and found it by looking at reviews. Whew. Okay, I have the account up and running again. It is public with all the info still there at the same link: http://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewuser.php?uid=749 RIgirl, please email me privately. I don't have your email address and I need that in order to turn the account back over to you. I will also have to give you a temporary password. And please do not let this even discourage you from your writing in any way. I would hate for that to happen. I, and so many others, love good fanfic and you are getting raves for a reason. If anything, turn those emotions towards the ones who ultimately caused this: the spammers. In fact, that could be a good inspiration for a fanfic. The team going after spammers. Or Zoltar? Oh my. Well, darn, a plot bunny just hopped into the room... For me it's now 2:30 AM after a super-long day. I'm seeing double, and it's time for bed. If anyone else has an account problem, please contact me either through this forum or through the contact form on the the archive side of Gatchfanfic (which is working just fine still). Have a good night!

Julieann - I'm glad you did manage to find it. Especially since it's 2am for you and you've stayed up this late to fix the glitch!!

to Julieann. You have been very helpful and worked so hard for all of us affected by those stupid spammers.

The first thing I checked this morning was the Gatcha Archives and was so happy to see RIgirl's stories showing. Now I hope, RIgirl, that you see that as a huge sign to continue with your writing and posting for all to enjoy. Thank you Julieann for putting in all the effort and time you did, and that you have done since the Spring to deal with these Spammer bots.

Throwing my voice in with Garnet - thank you so much, Julieann, for sorting that issue out! And staying up so late to do it too! You are truly a God send for all us fanfic readers and writers! And if you ever hunt down the spammers, send them our way - I know a few people with some major grudges who would like to spend a little time with them and explain, in great and painful detail, why they should be taken out the back and shot.

Originally posted by clouddancer Thank you Julieann for putting in all the effort and time you did, and that you have done since the Spring to deal with these Spammer bots.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work and effort, Julieann! I did send you an email, but if there's anything else you need from me, just let me know! Thanks again! And thanks, everyone, for your words of kindness and support -- you have no idea what they mean to me!

Julieann, I know everyone appreciates your work on this site, and your efforts to get their accounts abck up and running. Thank you!

with everything said above. Thank you, Julieann. It's not said enough to anyone who operates an archive, but we appreciate all the hard work!

Thanks for the warm comments. Again, sorry about all the mess. I would have much preferred to spend the time wasted on the spammers upgrading the forum, instead. This put me at least a week behind on that. It looks like we have RIgirl's straightened out. Yay!

Many thanks to you, Julieanne! Your efforts are greatly and truly apreciated!

Go Julieann!