A Sailor Moon Romance

Archive
Name:	A Sailor Moon Romance
Date(s):	199?-2007
Archivist:	Andrea & George
Founder:	Sailor Skuld
Type:	Fanfiction archive
Fandom:	Sailor Moon
URL:	"moonromance.net". Archived from the original on 2002-09-30.
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A Sailor Moon Romance (ASMR) was a Sailor Moon fanfiction archive.

History

In the mid-1990s, one of the first Sailormoon fanfiction archives was founded by Sailor Skuld. Titled "Artemis and Luna's Central Command," the site collected Sailormoon fanfics and provided them to visitors via zip files that were posted weekly. As the archive became more popular, the site changed names, changed hands, and soon became known as "A Sailor Moon Romance," with rolling updates and a PHP structure similar to systems used by many archives today. At its peak, ASMR hosted over ten thousand stories and supported thirteen thousand user accounts.

After more than a decade of operation, ASMR suffered a server crash in September of 2007.

Site features

When a new batch of fics appeared on ASMR, there would be a title, a link to the fic, and the author. There were no summaries unless you clicked on the link and an author had provided it there.

ASMR split its fics and had its NC-17 and certain R-rated fics in a section called Hentai. Many well-known writers contributed to the site; among them Sailor Mac, The Yarnspinner, Amazoness Duo, and Andrea Hui (also one of the site's admins).

Closure

The crash was a great loss to the Sailor Moon fandom, as ASMR had been the largest and longest-lasting fanfic and fanart archive, at least in the English language. After the crash, the ASMR admin decided to not keep the page running anymore.

Dejana Talis has since been trying to recover the sites' contents on One Song Glory. In 2008, sections A to H were added to the backup version there. Additionally, sections for history and fans' essays on their experiences with the site and Sailor Moon fandom in general were included, making the new site something of a memorial to the original one.

Sadly, the site has not been updated since 2008.

Note that http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/smromance/ is an unrelated site with the same name.