What do you call yours?

[tinturtle]

I have a folder on my computer (and backed up in several other places) in which I keep my collection of all-time favorite fanfics. No doubt I am not the only one, although those who encountered most of their favorites in zines may not have such a thing. At any rate, I would expect archives such as this to be common enough to have a widely used and understood name, yet I've never come across it. So, if you have one, what do you call it? If not, what do you think they should be called? I, for one, would like to be able to say, "This story is going into my _____!" and have people know what I mean.

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[tinturtle]

My fanfic folder is one of my most prized possessions, for all it is a digital one. In my own mind, I tend to call it "the Beloved Collection," but the few times I've mentioned it to others by name, I've changed that to "Treasured Collection." I was afraid other people might think "beloved" was odd. Most of the time I call it "my archive of favorite fics" or something similar, since that is easy for people to understand in the absence of a generally accepted term.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I like "the Beloved Collection" — I think you should stick to your guns there!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Great question. *g*

I've heard people just use "it's a keeper" about stories, although that's pretty generic of course. I don't think I have a name/term other than "my favourites", but I do have a special shelf for them, because I print out any story that I really like and know I'll re-read more than once, rather than read them on a device of any kind.

I do have folders for Pros fic, organised by author, but they're not necessarily my favourites, just stories that I've for some reason saved as a file. Sometimes they're rescue-scans, sometimes favourite stories that I've formatted so that I can print them out in a way that I like reading...

[tinturtle]

A special shelf sounds great. I wouldn't mind my Beloved Collection having a physical presence. Then I could hug it! *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

My fandom folder is, like yours, broken down by fandom. But inside are folders for artwork, icons, vids, wallpaper, and fanfiction (which is them broken down by author.) None of the folders have especially unique names, though.

[tinturtle]

I have folders for fan art and vids in the folder that contains the folder for fic. I have collected art in a lot of fandoms in which I don't read fic, so it makes sense to keep the two separate, I think. The fandoms for which I have collected vids are a subset of the ones in my fic folder, though.

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

Bookmarks.

[tinturtle]

So do you trust that they will remain available online? One of the things I ask myself when considering a story for the Beloved Collection is how sad I would be if it were taken down and became unavailable.

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

I try not to think about it.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I have a whole hard drive for all my Pros stuff. It is called "Pros". I have one folder with all stories from AO3, the complete CA, a ProsLib folder, fanfiction.net folder etc.

I save everything I can find but only thinks that has something to do with our lads. I don't read any other fanfiction, so there is no need for more. Maybe one day when I've read all Pros-stories I can get hold of. *g*

[tinturtle]

I don't read any other fanfiction, so there is no need for more. Maybe one day when I've read all Pros-stories I can get hold of. *g*

:D

Only my MUNCLE folder and, increasingly, my Pros folder have very much in them, but I do read other fanfic sometime and sometimes I am moved to save it.

Did you download all of the AO3 fics manually, or did you automate that somehow? I've downloaded all stories from the Circuit Archive and the Hatstand using mass-download tools, but AO3 is more complicated, and I've put off trying to figure out whether I can do the same there.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I downloaded them manually from AO3, the other way will not work well because the mass download tools try to download ALL stories postet in AO3 from every fandom.