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Ad Astra News - 7/2 - 7/8
State of the Archive
Okay, so listen up. This is important.
A lot of people coming to Ad Astra have never been a part of the Ad Astra community back when we were still running on eFiction. They're new authors from AO3, especially, who are used to a certain kind of culture and looking for alternatives to AO3; that culture is often far more passive in its consumption and less interactive in general. While AO3 is an incredible resource, it's not really a fan community. That's not meant as a disparagement; AO3 serves its intended purpose (maybe even too well) of being a place where everyone can safely archive stories. It is not, though, a social platform, nor was it meant to be.
Ad Astra is, by contrast, a community. When you're over here archiving your stories frantically, distressed by what's happening with OTW, you're stepping foot into a place with a very long history that has been kept alive by a relatively small number of people who love it. Who have paid for its survival for years, even when we were broke and literally scraping change together from the core community to keep afloat. Even when we were quiet. Even when we lost two of our own to death by illness. And even when it felt hopeless.
We have been, for almost fifteen years, a circle of people -- sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes just a few die-hards -- telling each other stories and celebrating each others stories around a campfire. This is what you're coming into. So I need you, the new people, to understand that you aren't owed this space. We invite you (general you) into it, and we will gladly -- joyfully -- fold you into our community, but you aren't entitled to this. If you want it to survive, if you want the efforts of those of us who have poured incredible hours of time and money and effort into this just so we could offer it to you for free to continue, then do your part to keep it alive. Celebrate your fellow authors. Write comments. Write recs. Talk on the forums, join a rewatch, host a rewatch. Join the weekly challenge. Get involved.
(And, you know, follow my tagging rules and stop trying to sneak around them. LOL! I see you. If it's not useful for universal search filtering, it doesn't belong on the archive and I will cull it with glee. XD)
Any fan community starts and ends with its people, not with its platform. I know you like the platform. Now come and celebrate the people, and let us celebrate you, too. Thanks.
Weekly Challenge #10
For this challenge, you get to take a look at a 'turn right' AU. Or left. Or backwards. Pick a canon moment or a moment in the lives of a character, one of your OCs or even just in the universe and explore, in 100 to 700 words, what might have happened if it played out differently. If a different person stepped in front of the disruptor fire. Or if someone had a nightmare and backed out of that assignment. The sky's the limit; interpret however liberally or strictly as you like!
If you post it to the archive, add it to the Weekly Challenges collection with the tag Weekly Challenge: One Reality Over and post a link here in this thread so we can go see!
Challenge ends at 11:59PM Eastern on Friday, July 14th!
Also, a special shout-out to Beatrice_Otter, who was a total MVP this week by compiling about 90% of our Stories Archived section for me while I kept settling in to my new job. For real, she was amazing and thank you so, so much for the help, Beatrice.
Stories Archived
Star Trek: Discovery
by lah_mrh
A Light in the Darkness - T - Michael Burnham, Saru, Philippa Georgiou
Know You Better Now - T - Ash Tyler/Christopher Pike
Yours If You Want It - T - Ash Tyler | Voq/Christopher Pike
by nonelvis
It's All We Know Now to Never Go Back - Explicit - Gabriel Lorca/River Song
The Winter Festival - G - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell
War Games - T - Gabriel Lorca/Ash Tyler
A Quiet Empire - T - Gabriel Lorca/Michael Burnham
by Pixie
Fear of Falling - M - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell
Soldier or Musician - G - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets, Sylvia Tilly
I can feel the flames on my skin - T - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell
Dracarys - G - Katrina Cornwell/Phillipa Georgiou
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
by lah_mrh
Waiting It Out - G - Christopher Pike & Una Chin-Riley | Number One
by StarryEyes2000
Extra Scenes, Codas, and Other Stuff (SNW Season 2) - T - Ensemble Cast
Captain Honorary Dad - T - Christopher Pike, Ensemble Cast
Star Trek: The Original Series
by IDICdreads
What If We Could - G - Spock/Christine Chapel
There is no pain. - T - Spock, James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Oh, the places you'll boldly go! - G - Ensemble Cast
by jamaharon
Please - Explicit - Spock/James T. Kirk
Mating Season (So to Speak) - T - Spock/James T. Kirk
Hot Springs - T - Spock/James T. Kirk
Care - G - Spock/James T. Kirk
Leaving the Table - G - James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy
by lah_mrh
Tea and Sympathy - G - James T. Kirk & Spock
by SLWalker
Cinderella in a Party Dress - Teen - Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - M - Montgomery Scott (Mirror)
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
by daraoakwise
If Only In My Dreams - T - Leonard "Bones" McCoy (AOS)/Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (AOS)
by StarryEyes2000
Dating Advice - T - Leonard "Bones" McCoy (AOS), James T. Kirk (AOS), Spock (AOS)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
by baktag
To Boldly Go - T - Data & Guinan
by intothisshadow
[Graphics] Star Trek TNG Wallpapers - G - Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi
by jamaharon
Earl Grey, Hot - G - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker
Death Letter Blues - G - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker
Wild, Wild Young Men - T - Worf/William Riker
Odysseus to Telemachus - M - Thomas Riker & Kyle Riker
Cat Puberty - G - Data, Geordi La Forge, William Riker
Mood Indigo - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Conjoined - T - Deanna Troi/William Riker, Thomas Riker/Worf
Parallels - G - Guinan, Ro Laren
Live - M - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Phantom Pain - T - Deanna Troi/William Riker
A Bridge of Brass - T - Thomas Riker & William Riker
Haptics - G - Data/Geordi La Forge
Changes - M - William Riker/Data
Starlines - E - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker
Noli Me Tangere // Touch Me Not - M - Deanna Troi/William Riker
The Enterprise Gets a Sex Change - T - Ensemble
Worf's Warlike Battle of the Arms - T - William Riker/Worf
Five Times Riker Staked His Claim + One Time Worf Staked His Instead - Unrated - Deanna Troi/William Riker/Worf
Five Times Riker Didn't Want to Have Sex + One Time He Didn't Have To - E - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Absent in the Spring - T - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker
by kimaracretak
the tidings from our fading sun made me wiser - T - Deanna Troi/Ro Laren
by Pixie
Lefler's Law 17 - T - Robin Lefler/Sito Jaxa
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
by jamaharon
Just Doing His Job - G - Elim Garak/Julian Bashir
by kimaracretak
the sky stirred - T - Winn Adami
by LordRobertBruceScott
Star Beagle Adventures Episode 1: The Eye of the Beholder - Teen - Pel, original characters
by Pixie
Meet Cute - G - Elim Garak/Morn
By sixbeforelunch
Soldiers Were Children Once - T - Quark
Star Trek: Voyager
by nostalgia
Where No One Can Hear You Scream - Mature - Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay
by Pixie
Morale - G - Tuvok, Tom Paris
Kindred - G - Kathryn Janeway & Tuvok, Kathryn Janeway/Tuvok,
Star Trek: Picard
by jamaharon
The Drowned Girl - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Head Like a Haunted House - T - Jack Crusher/Borg Queen
Safe and Sound - G - Geordi La Forge, William Riker
Nothing Heavier - T - Jean-Luc Picard/William Riker/Deanna Troi
Boys Don't Cry - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Star Trek: Prodigy
by Pixie
Limitless - G - Kathryn Janeway, Tuvok, Gwyndala, Jack Crusher
Expanded Universes
by DavidFalkayn
Bellerophon: Into the Unknown - Mature - Ensemble Cast
Opening Moves - Mature - Multiple Relationships
The Big Dance - M - Ensemble Cast
by Gibraltar
The Plebe - NR - Liana Ramirez
by Hawku
Nightmare Anomaly - G - Oroku Seifer
The New Frontier - G - Oroku Seifer
Gender Swap - G - Oroku Seifer
Myths & Lore - G - Oroku Seifer
Movie Night - G - Oroku Seifer
The Xindi Paradox - G - Oroku Seifer, Menchez
The Delta We Left Behind - G - Menchez
There’s Always Some Strings Attached - G - Menchez
STO Halloween - G - Oroku Seifer, Menchez
Second Life - G - Harley Menrow
Lazarus - G - Harley Menrow
Winter Wonderland Celebrations (I) - G - Oroku Seifer, Menchez, Aeris
Things Crew Members of the Jenova are No Longer Allowed to Do - G - Iviok
Visit To a Weird Planet, Revisited - Again - G - Iviok
The Needs of the Plenty - G - Ensemble
For the World is Worldly and Such - G - Ensemble
Teaching the Next Generation - G - Andrea Reynolds
Delta Recruit - G - Andrea Reynolds
Better Angels of Our Nature - G - Harley Menrow, Iviok, Andrea Reynolds
Someone To Remember Them By - G - Harley Menrow, Iviok, Andrea Reynolds
The Arrival - M - Harley Menrow
The Sound of Q-sic - T - Yuffie Samya
Captain's Log - G - Ensemble
Aftermath - G - Yuffie Samya
In Session - M - Yuffie Samya
What Are You Thankful For? - G - Michael McCary, Sigon
Sunrise - G - Sid
Winter Wonderland Celebrations (II) - G - Michael McCary, Yuffie Samya
The Officer Exchange - Teen - Michael McCary
Nibiru - T - Oroku Seifer, Harley Menrow, Yuffie Samya, Andrea Reynolds
Earth Spacedock - M - Oroku Seifer, Aeris, Terry, Menchez
Devil's Leftovers - T - Ensemble
Anthology of Ragnarok - T - Oroku Seifer
Apparitions - G - Sigon
How the Mighty Have Fallen - M - Sigon
Life or Death - T - Sigon, Menchez
A Wonderful Life - G - Deloss
Holodeck Fantasy - G - Deloss
The Imposter - G - Oroku Seifer, Aeris
L'amour est Parmi les Étoiles - G - Oroku Seifer, Aeris
Election Year - T - Deloss, Harley Menrow
Fleet Week - G - Deloss, Sigon
Enmity - G - Oroku Seifer
Lost to Time - G - Oroku Seifer
First Contact Day - G - Oroku Seifer
From Hell's Heart... G - Oroku Seifer
In Their Footsteps - G - Kronen
Retaking the Test - G - Oroku Seifer, Aeris
Beware False Prophets - G - Kronen
Only Ashes Remain - G - Kronen, Sigon, Deloss
Even Roses Smell Like... - G - Kronen
Tempus Fugit - G - Elektra
Face the Kramp'Ihri - T - Elektra
Deadly Alliance - T - Elektra, Andrea Reynolds, Deloss, Kronen
I'm a Captain, Not an Actor! - T - Menchez, Elektra, Kronen, Deloss
Dominion Delegation - G - Menchez
For the Dominion! - G - Kurok'Tekan, Menchez
Welcome to the Epsilon Fringe - M - Wyn Tressa
The Tiloniam System - G - Ensemble Cast
Jello Cubes - G - Ensemble Cast
Deep Space Not So Much - G - Ensemble Cast
Partial Recall - G - Ensemble Cast
Reverse Metallurgy - G - Ensemble Cast
Double Void - G - Ensemble Cast
