Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2021: Week 24
The Wonderful World of Makebelieve or WWOMB is a multifandom archive featuring gen, het, slash and femslash fanfiction and original fiction of all ratings. It is hosted by Squidge.org, a fan created free web hosting service. By 2002 WWOMB archived fanfic in 206 multi-media fandoms and that number has only increased. By 2020, the archive was the home of more than 3,300 authors and hosted more than 34,300 stories.
The WWOMB was associated with a multitude of different fandom specific mailing lists. In most cases all fanfiction posted to these lists were archived at the WWOMB unless there was an explicit Do Not Archive notice included with the fic. The Mailing Lists, Journals and Blogs of MakeBelieve were mostly hosted on squidge.org, Yahoo Groups or Livejournal.
The Wonderful World of Makebelieve was known as an archive that accepted stories that were not permitted on other archives. This included slash, femslash and RPF fanfiction. Authors were required to include disclaimers and appropriate warnings and ratings to help readers curate their content.