The Protectorate Archive

Archive
Name:	The Protectorate Archive
Date(s):	May 2020
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URL:	The Protectorate Archive, Archived version
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The Protectorate Archive was a short-lived fanfiction archive on WordPress supposedly set up by anti-shippers that may have been a parody. It had the tagline "good fic for good people". The site was taken down less than a day after it went viral on twitter.

Content Guidelines

When the archive went viral, people were particularly amused by the content guidelines:

We expressely FORBID the normalization and promotion of any of the following:

Underage relationships (minor/adult, minor/minor, etc)
Kinks or “BDSM”
Distasteful sex acts
Paraphilias
Rape/non-consensual sex/sex with dubious consent
Incestual relationships (siblings, parent/child, family members, etc)
Abuse or domestic violence
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, bigotry, etc
Grooming
Excessive abusive vulgarity
Real-Person Fiction (RPF)
Intentionally inflammatory content
Non-fic (original) content
Self insert/reader insert/”x reader” fics

Links

• Fail_fandomanon: Re: Catching up with previous anons - The Protectorate Archive, ^{Archived version} (May 2, 2020)
• Fail_fandomanon: The Protectorate Archive, ^{Archived version} (May 4, 2020)
• viral tweet by kylosprmanager (May 4, 2020)
• tweet thread by freetofic, ^{Archived version} (May 4, 2020)
• AO3: Good Influences On Good People by HigherMagic, ^{Archived version} (2020-05-04)
• The Mary Sue: Fandom Has a Purity Culture Problem, ^{Archived version} by Jessica Mason (May 5, 2020)
• Conjoined Podcast: episode 29: The best worst love story ever told, ^{Archived version} (May 9, 2020)
• The funny thing is, antis did try to create their own ao3 but it failed miserably 💀💀💀, tweet by espasolnikaeya (Apr 4, 2023)
• tumblr thread by kizunafatiigue, ^{Archived version} (October 3, 2023)