Argh - looking for Half-Gifts

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

The great and forever unfinished post-Grave Spuffy fic by Shannon / automated_alice.  I had it downloaded chapter by chapter on our back-up hard drive and then Con Edison fried it - surge protector and all (Extra back-ups are my friend - Extra back-ups are my friend - Extra back-ups ... picture me writing on a chalkboard like Bart Simpson).

Can't find via Wayback.  If anybody has it, please please pretty please email?  to javelina@pipeline.com

I lost a lot of other saved fics but have mostly been able to find them.  Mostly.  Sob.

UPDATE - Thank you lovely people who have sent this - and see below - spikereader has posted a Wayback Machine link.

Comments

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

You might end up with loads of copies. :D I've emailed you one in Word format. :)

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Me 2, please?!?!
Batting eyes sweetly :)
<masrowan@yahoo.com>

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you thank you ... again with the Bart Simpson writing.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

I've found my bookmark for the wayback machine entry too (which is where I saved it from fairly recently, just in case *g*)

http://web.archive.org/web/20030523143540/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/half-gifts/

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Yay! Bookmarking! Total mystery why I can't get Wayback to work with / for me on this one (had a similar problem with dutchbuffy's site but then realized that I had saved a link last year).

[cordykitten]

PS: Dutchbuffy's site moved from http://home.planet.nl/~dutchbuffy2305 to:

-> http://home.planet.nl/~balde096/

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I didn't realize there was a new site. Of course, she's still not updating, but never mind, it's still good to have it bookmarked.

[cordykitten]

No I don't think she's still writing a lot of BtVS stories. She said in her LJ in May that she published an original short story. Good for her, sad for the fanfic readers.

[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

Pretty please? With spike on top? My email is prophecygirrl@gmail.com. I need to know it will always be there when I want to read it again.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

No problems - it's on the way. :)

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I think it's on AAS? Maybe not. I know I found it somewhere not terribly long ago. Let me think about it and look around.

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

It's moot since spikereader has sent it to me - bless her! - but I know for sure it's not on AAS. I hadn't thought she posted it anywhere but her own site.

If there is an online link, cool!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

*nods* Well, I'm glad you got it. After I wrote that, I realized that it wasn't AAS, but I couldn't remember which older archive it was. The Crypt, maybe? Anyway, I'm glad you found it. It's a great story, even if it is unfinished.

[cordykitten]

For the future (I installed it after my PC was fried but thank got only the motherboard, not the hard drive): It's Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks), it works for several browsers. At last you'll get your bookmarks back.
Never underestimate back-ups. Loosing stuff sucks.

I had another entry saved in my memories from seeking_spike from last time it was asked but I see that you have it now. I don't think it's on-line (without the WBM) anywhere.

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. If you have Chapter 8 (Central Reservation, I think it was called), spikereader's copy is missing that one and I am dying for it. And I'm still having Wayback problems.

But yes, I will install Xmarks!

[cordykitten]

My version seems to be complete, it ends with Chapter thirteen: Muscle and Want (though it counts from Prologue to Ch. 2).

I found one link that works for me http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/index.html

This link doesn't show pictures so you have to guess the chatpers (the title is in the pic in this version of the story) and go from left to right. I copied the links here if another one is looking for it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/prologuetroy.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/dealwithgod.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/jumpintheriver.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/songofsolomon.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/untouchables.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/lovesafisheye.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/centralreservation.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/spiderandi.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/candycandy.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/amanitamuscaria.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/cemeterygates.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/fait-accompli.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050503094408/http://www.tar-xvf.net/shannon/fic/half-gifts/muscleandwant.htm

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Never mind the "Central Reservation" question - that chapter is in a copy that another kind seeking spike member sent to me :)

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't realised I was missing a chapter - don't suppose you could email me the missing one could you?

[uwsannajane.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can! Am sending right now. And I was wrong about the chapter number, as it's Chapter 7, according to the html files - comes just before "Spider and I."