Shifting Sands (X-Men archive)/Subreality Cafe Stories
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| Archive | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Shifting Sands |
| Date(s): | 1997 - 2004 |
| Archivist: | Darqstar, Alara Rogers |
| Founder: | Darqstar |
| Type: | Closed archive |
| Fandom: | Subreality Cafe |
| URL: | Wayback capture Aug 10/04 |
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Shifting Sands was one of the big X-Men archives during the heyday of the fandom. The following stories are those archived under the Subreality Cafe section.
Subreality Cafe
- Somebody Fire My Agent - Ever wonder what those characters fanfiction writers create do when they are not in a story? Well, wonder no longer, instead take a little visit to the Subreality Café...
- Raindrops Keep Falling In My Beer - A typical SC crowd wonders who is the mysterious writer in the corner.
- Nobody Listens - Nobody ever said it was easy to be the manager of the Subreality Café, did they?
- What's In A Name? - The title pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
- Live And Learn - It's not just the original characters that hang out between asignments at the Subreality Café. The fanfiction writers' versions of the Marvel characters hang there too!
- On Becoming Real - What happens when three writers take some time off their respective stories, but not everyone sees them on the side of angels? Some characters don't take kindly to their fates
- Subreality Qualification - The adventure never stops at the Subreality Café. In this story, a writer comes up with a clever way to gain entrance into the Subreality Café.
- Kids Night Out - It's Kids' Night Out at the Subreality Café and all the X-Men's little tots are invited. Watch as "busy" characters like Rogue, Gambit and Hank deal with the sudden business of playing parent to every fanfic kid they have.
- Out For A Cruise - A reader decides not to take either of the "three major" fanfiction highways and takes his computer out for a cruise along the "backroads," ending up instead at that famous café...
- No Smoking In The Subreality Café - Unable to go inside the café, some mainstreams hang outside for a smoke and a good gripe session.
- So Much Griping, So Little Accomplishment - A response to Kielle's self-insertion challenge, in which JFMoore runs into Red Monster in X-Force's part of the Subreality Café.
- So Much Yet So Little - A fan goes to the SC looking for the X-Men and instead runs into X-Force, thanks to an angry fanfic writer with PMS
- Reminiscing - Just your average night around the cafe, a bunch of X-men sitting around complaining about some of the more bizarre parts they've had to play.
- Mist and Shadows at the Subreality Café - Shadows and mist spin a web around the Subreality Café as it gets a special visit...but who says it's a bad thing to have Death knock on your door? Features a prominent role by both the Bouncer and the Lady Kielle.
- Claremont's Hideaway - Welcome to Claremont's Hideaway. Well-written characters and their writers only. Poorly-written intruders shall be forced to drink Moira's coffee and be given to Cable for target practice.
- It's Not The Fall That Kills You...It's The Beer And Bunny Slippers - In the subreality world, fanfics are being killed! Who is responsible for this terrible crime? Who will be the next to go? And why are Abyss' slippers not talking?
- The Times That Try Men's Hearts (Or, What Was I Smoking Last Night When I thought Of This One?) - The fate of an archive is threatened and it's up to a writer to try to save the dream!
- Confusion in the key of plastic - 'The Subreality Café--where anything is possible, even true love...'
- But I Don't Want To Be A Series... - Not even the Subreality Café is safe when CMS is around. Deciding she didn't like the way Kevin was acting toward becoming a series, Lizzie did the only thing she could think of, snuck a writer into the Cafe.
- Subreality Café's Newcomers' Survival Guide - Everyone knows that the Subreality Café is not your ordinary cafe, but for newcomers it can be downright dangerous as two fictives discover.
- The Favor - When the Manager of the Subreality Café calls and asks for a favor, just hang up!
- A Thousand Eyes Hath Happiness, Love, and Cheesecake - So, we all know what happens when new Writers come to the Cafe, right? General insanity and chaos. I'm no exception. Or rather, my Avatar isn't. However, it seems like he's having some difficulties with cognizant fictives, a platypus, and a certain gel we all know and love...
- Getting to Know Us - X-Force meets a lot of familiar faces at the Subreality Café.