THE STASH

What is it about?

Well it’s about comics really. Whatever your taste might be, DC, Marvel, Image and so many others there are out there right now.

In recent years, through movies like Spiderman and Batman Begins, comics have now captured the public eye and audiences as never before. Those who never thought of these characters as three dimensional beings are now looking at them beyond the films and even beyond the printed page. There is something about these characters, even above their amazing powers, that fascinate us. We want to know why it is they do what they do, how it would be to live in their world and our desire to share in these experiences and adventures is why the Stash exists.

For years I helped manage another archive for Lord the Rings and the biggest complaint I heard there was the lack of respectability that fan fiction seems to have. There is the feeling that if you write fan fic, you’re perceived as little more than some obsessive wannabe. Perhaps there is some truth to that for some but to the general community of the fanfiction writers, we tend to want to tell good stories with great characters. There’s nothing worse than crafting a great story and then seeing it placed next to the Batman/Wolverine MPREG fic (if you don’t know what MPREG is, consider yourselves lucky).

The Stash has been created to give all writers are place to host their comic based stories. I have looked around and other than Fan Fiction Net and Adult Fan Fiction Net, there isn’t a place where such stories, whatever the publisher can be housed. Furthermore, some of the stories on those sites are questionable in their quality to say the least. You only have to read one Lady Parasite rape of Superman story to get that. Yuck. I have nothing against these sites but there is little moderation in regards to what gets posted there and so readers have to plough through a lot of dregs to find good works.

I hope it will not be the case on the Stash.

The site while adult is not slash-friendly. I have no problem with same sex couples or any issue with homosexuality. My choice to make the Stash slash-free has to do with the fact that there are many sites out there with nothing else. The Stash wants to be a place where authors and readers who have no inclination for these can read stories without running inadvertently into a Superman/Batman pairing (???). The content of the Stash should be about the story, not the pairing.

Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, I would also like to invite writers and readers of the Stash, to help create a place for good stories but also as a community where all fans for comic books can talk about their particular fandom or even discuss how to hone their craft as writers. The Stash hopefully when we have enough interest, should become a support group for writers and a place for readers to offer constructive feedback.

So with all that said, on to the Archive!