question question question! and assistance

[seperis]

Okay, so say I suddenly had a burning desire to read Sherlock Holmes (thanks marycrawford). Other than Sir Conan Doyle, what are your recommendations? I've read on and off for years, but I'm thinking a concentrated hit would be nice right now.

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Sherlock Holmes - Briarbrae

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Damn - thought I'd checked all the links to make sure they were current. So far, I've not managed to find Briarbrae at a new location. Frustratingly, though the Wayback Machine archived the site (it looks like a full archive version, too), the site owner has blocked acccess to the archived pages. So while you can see the listing of pages archived, you cannot access them, rendering the Wayback Machine archived versions useless. I hate that with a passion that words cannot adequately express. Why block access to the archive of a widely-used and public site (Briarbrae) whose purpose was to gather scattered resources and link to other Sherlock Holmes fan and canon sites for fen and make networking easier?

Anyway, you might have better luck turning up some info on a new location - or possibly even getting the Briarbrae block lifted at the Wayback Machine archive.

I don't know if you realize that Brairbrae was created and maintained by the Old Briar Pipe? The site wasn't updated in the last few years, but remained accessible. The Old Briar Pipe has shifted fandoms, and is now active in SGA. In checking out their recent LJ entries, I ran across a recent post in which you and the Old Briar Pipe are chatting about an email exchange you've had about SGA team fiction (http://briar-pipe.livejournal.com/52404.html). So perhaps you might ask the Old Briar Pipe what's going on with Briarbrae? It's still considered a very valuable resource amongst Sherlockians and especially H/W fen, and I'd dearly love to see it back online.

If you find a new URL, do please let me know!

Re: Sherlock Holmes - Briarbrae

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Huh! No, I completely failed to realize that da Pipe ran this. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

I'm investigating.

Re: Sherlock Holmes - Briarbrae

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Thought you might not have realized the connection since SH is an old fandom for Briar Pipe. Fingers crossed that you discover the site will be returning.

Re: Sherlock Holmes - Briarbrae

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Not an entirely dead fandom, either. Fairly recently, I was threatenedoffered a bribe of Holmesfic.

I suspect it's "just" a matter of having failed to pay the domain fee.

Re: Sherlock Holmes - Briarbrae

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info - both those things make me decidedly hopeful!