These files were a bit more work to put together, since they were deleted before they could be copied and saved in the last big back-up. However, thanks to our friends at the web archive, I was able to copy and paste some back-up file copies for the future. And, as always, I'm happy to share.

( 19 Fics by Batox deleted from ff.net )


( Steplianna - 3 fics )

I did a much more thorough sift through my downloaded archive files this time, and I came up with a number of other River/Jayne fics that have been removed from the net. As always, please let me know if you'd like a copy of any or all.

I've also noted some that are still accessible through the Wayback Machine, if you don't want to bother with downloading files.

LET THERE BE RAYNE . . . !

( CodexFawkes - 22 fics )


( DixonVixen93 - 9 fics )

Since the PrettyDeadly.net website went down (sometime in 2015, though it'd been wonky for some years before that), those of us who occasionally enjoy reading some River/Jayne Firefly fic have not had access to the lists of and links to award-winning and nominated fics that we used to find there.

Because I'm just that obsessive (and hate to lose any more fandom history of any kind), I've been working to piece together the "Blue Sun Fandom Awards", "Best of Rayne", and "Pretty Deadly Awards" lists -- with the last one being the toughest, since we apparently relied entirely on the PrettyDeadly.net website to preserve that info and didn't post complete (or even near-complete or partial) lists anywhere else at the time.

The information and links I've been able to acquire over the past couple of weeks are now posted on my LJ under this tag: https://revdorothyl.livejournal.com/tag/awards

Everything that contains my far-from-complete and way-too-spotty information about the "Pretty Deadly Awards" (2007-2010) can be found here: https://revdorothyl.livejournal.com/tag/pretty%20deadly

Same goes for the results of the "Best of Rayne" awards (2005-2007): https://revdorothyl.livejournal.com/tag/best%20of%20rayne

And for the "Rayne-adjacent" portions of the "Blue Sun Fandom Awards" (2004-2005): https://revdorothyl.livejournal.com/tag/blue%20sun

I have yet to set up individual tags for the actual award categories, but here's how they work out in terms of numbered posts:

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If ANYONE reading this was nominated for a "Pretty Deadly Award" for any year other than 2008 (the only year's ballot I was able to retrieve), please, please, pretty please let me know so I can improve the database I've been trying to patch together.

I'd especially like to have an idea of the nominees for the 2011 PDAs, since the results from that year were invalidated at the request of the one author who won every award that year due to an overly-enthusiastic friend who nominated her fics and repeatedly voted for them all regardless of category.

I'm also still missing the 2010 winners in the best song-fic, best Rayne kiss, and best Jayne-centric categories, as well as almost all the nominees in every category.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

A new friend over on the Rayne_Shippers LJ community gave me a link to chase down, in case I wanted to work on trying to recover some 'Firefly' fanfics that have been removed from ff.net and even from LJ: https://archive.org/details/fanfictiondotnet_repack

Fair warning: the files are arranged alphabetically by category/fandom, and after that by author, and in order to get 80 deleted 'Firefly' fics, I had to wait over an hour for the massive "F" zip file to download onto my laptop, and then it took around 18 hours to extract all the files in that zip file so I could find the 'Firefly' ones. I finally wised up and cancelled the extraction process before it got to 'Full Metal Alchemist' stories, since I was only going to delete those anyway, and then deleted all the fics that preceded and followed 'Firefly', in order not to take up so much space on my computer.

The deleted fics I was looking for and was able to find (there were many that were deleted prior to 2013-15 when these files were grabbed) were written by mik109 and thefriskyfire, but if you're interested in missing fics from other fandoms, it might be worth your while to take the time to download and unpack a mega zip file or two. :)

Dear fellow Rayne addicts (c'mon, admitting we're powerless over our Rayne-love -- and that we wouldn't want it any other way -- is the first step!),

If you're using an older browser or computer (like me on my work computer) but want to make sure to nominate your favorite Rayne fics of 2011 for the Pretty Deadly Awards, don't let any technical difficulties with the website turn you off.( Read more... )

Here's hoping that everyone with an interest in Rayne fic will be able to nominate something this year, and then enjoy voting for your favorites later on.

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(*as told to RevDorothyL)

Disclaimer: I do not own Firefly or the movie Serenity, and I make no money from playing with Joss Whedon's characters.

Author's Note: I had intended to let Inara tell this tale, as a follow-up to her Jayne and the Dragon Princess bedtime story, but -- wouldn't you know it? -- Mal kept making rude noises and inserting his own little side-comments whenever certain characters were mentioned, and so I finally had to let him just tell the next part of the story all by himself, in his own, inimitable fashion.
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"Jayne and the Boastful Badger: A Bedtime Story” by Malcolm Reynolds*

*As Told to RevDorothyL

Once upon a time, there was a trickster known as the Badger of Eavesdown.

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EPILOGUE: "THERE ONCE WAS A POET NAMED JAYNE..."

Author's Note: Again, massively OOC for Jayne and River, I'm sure, but I still can't resist letting these two battle it out in yet another pseudo-literary venue.

This fic was partly inspired by the many kind reviews I received for the first two chapters, and partly by a rerun of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ that I finally saw a couple of nights ago (the one where the guys combined several leisure activities into one new game, ‘Secret Agent Laser Obstacle Chess’).

I own nothing and no-one (especially not Joss Whedon's 'Firefly'), and I make no profit from playing with these characters.


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'Jayne's a Poet, And River Didn't Know It' (1/3)
'The River Strikes Back' (2/3)

THE ‘POET’ THEY CALL JAYNE (Epilogue, 3/3) ( There Once Was a Poet Named Jayne... )

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Set a year or so post-BDM. River 's POV. Massively OOC for Jayne and River, I'm sure, but I couldn't resist!

Rating: PG (some glancing references to violence and frank language).


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THE POET THEY CALL JAYNE (1/3)

( Jayne's a poet, and River didn't know it )

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Disclaimers, Tacit Apologies, and the First Three 'Books' here


( 4th installment here )
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Taking Turns with River and Jayne (another 'Learn to Read with River and Jayne' adventure, written in response to goddessofbirth's story, Naptime Chronicles 5: In the Cargo Bay)

( See Simon make a mistake... )

Even though I wouldn't exactly call it poetry (not even "bloody awful poetry"), I couldn't resist responding to an entertaining new series of lighthearted 'pre-Rayne' (River/Jayne, Firefly/Serenity) fics with some Dick-and-Jane-Style narratives over on the rayne_shippers community.

Check it out only if you think you can stand it!