About this restoration

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Restoration of MiJ (including EMXC) began in January 2018, after a suspected virus had left EMXC unusable, and Lisa's real life took priority. I'd planned to gift this to her when completed, but haven't heard back since my initial email contact with her. It was originally hidden from search engines to operate as a clandestine mirror, but I've now unleashed it to the world. After a long period of brain malfunction I've finally been able to come back and do the responsive code upgrade in 2024. [A big shout out to HRT :D]

x-sites.org is a project aimed at restoring and/or resurrecting some of the fabulous X-Files Fan Fiction sites, while at the same time not compromising the privacy of any authors who may no longer want their fics archived under their real names.

A pseudonym is allocated for any authors who no longer want their names associated with their “youthful indiscretions”,or authors who used what appear to be uncommon real names and can’t be contacted. This can be an established pen name that they’ve provided before, or I may make slight changes to the spelling of a name or use/remove initials to make a name more common. This is in no way an attempt to remove the rights of the original author, but to protect their right to privacy while keeping their masterpieces out where they can be enjoyed. If I google the name and get hundreds of results, or the author is well known in the fandom and hasn't requested a change, I'll keep the name.

Whilst these stories are generally available via the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, and many are on Gossamer, they’re not searchable there, and they can’t be linked to or easily shared from Gossamer. I hate to think that the time and effort that was put into creating these sites and stories isn't lost. Whilst I've tended to keep the txt files from being searched due to original author details remaining on there, I've recently discovered a new way to hide snippets of information from google. On the archive pages an author's name may appear intact, but it won't be read by google. (fingers crossed) Eventually I'm planning to convert txt files to html to hide that same sensitive information and allow full stories to be searchable. I've just done this for gerties.x-sites.org and if it's successful I'll return to do the same here.

Note: If linking to a fic here, please continue to hide the surnames from google if possible using the following code: <span data-nosnippet>(hidden info)</span>

I tried to retain as much as I could of the original pages and layouts as I want them to be close to the original creations as possible, despite my detesting black backgrounds!!! Fortunately I managed to capture the flash header image on the main page as a video file before all flash files ceased operation, so it's been converted to an animated gif file for continued enjoyment. I always loved that image. :) I did make a few little updates to this site, mainly for mobile phone usability as links can't be too close together. I do plan to combine stories into a single file rather than have heaps of little links to try to hit, but I'm saving that part for when my brain falls apart again as it will be tedious and repetitive. I also got a bit bored and played with horizontal rules and did different colours on different areas of the site because I can't help myself sometimes. Sorry. After waiting for so long for my brain to reconnect I fear it will cease operations again so I'm trying to do all the trickier things, like overall mobile code redesign, whilst it's working. (I also apologise to anyone who was fond of the flashing gifs, my eyes couldn't take it any longer. Here you go, you can sit and watch them here... )

A lack of current contact details makes it all but impossible to contact individual authors, so I've stripped email addresses from the archive pages. If you’re an author featured here and have stumbled across your work, please appreciate that it’s here because it’s still bringing happiness to new generations of fans. If for some reason you'd like it to be archived under a different name or removed completely, just ask.

Feel free to link directly to any works on this site as long as your link is done under the assigned pseudonym, or with use of the hidey code above. Please keep in mind that story URLs will possibly change once I come back and combine the parts. You may be aware of the original author name, but the intent is for their real names to not pop up on Google under a search by name only.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me at [email protected] I'm sorry if I don't reply quickly, I'm working on my social phobia...

I-Don't-Wanna-Wrestle - x-sites.org re-archivist.

DISCLAIMER: The stories, characters, images and pages remain copyright © the original owners.
This is a labor of love – no money is being made by x-sites.org or by the original fanfic writers or archivists.

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