Potter Slash Archive

The Potter Slash Archive (PSA) is a Harry Potter archive for Harry-centric slash. It was originally an archive for both Harry and James slash, but it split into three separate archives: the PSA for Harry slash, Stag Night for James slash, and Immortal Beloved for Harry/James slash.
glassesreflect was the Yahoo! Group for the archive from November 2001 to early 2005. A second group, psa-updates, was started in February 2005, but was short-lived.On 15 June 2006, Sarvihaara wrote that she could no longer access the psa-updates group because her Yahoo! account was deleted when Yahoo deleted glassesreflect; she encouraged people to join the new psa_dungeons LiveJournal community instead. (PSA - Updates, archived 12 January 2007.)
The archive was a member of The Harry and Draco Ring, the Slash Fan Fiction Ring and The Harry Potter Slash Web Ring.The Potter Slash Archive, via Wayback 2002. (Accessed 23 October 2021) 
== History ==
=== Beginnings ===
The archive was created by Sarvihaara in March 2001.The PSA - Home at chibihanna.net. (Archived 13 October 2002 by the Wayback Machine.) Sarvihaara wrote c. 2002:
In 2002, the archive was hosted by Krissy Moser at chibihanna.net. In November 2002, it moved to shadow-wrapped.net, hosted by Drusilla.
=== Cease & Desist Notice ===
On January 22, 2003, the Potter Slash Archive (at psa.shadow-wrapped.net) received a cease and desist letter from J.K. Rowling's literary agent and Warner Bros., due to the site's "sexually explicit" Harry Potter content. 
As a result of the notice, all NC-17 material was temporarily removed from the site. A password-protected folder was set up on the archive for the material, with the password available at the (18-and-over) glassesreflect mailing list.The PSA - Home: "please take note!" (30 January 2003) and "New fics" (16 February 2003). (Archived 15 April 2003 by the Wayback Machine.)
In July 2003, the archive moved to Sarvihaara's own site at glassesreflect.net. In 2004, fauxwen became a co-administrator of the site; Sarvihaara continued to run the James fanfiction section while fauxwen took over the Harry section.PSA - Site Info at glassesreflect.net. (Archived 15 April 2004 by the Wayback Machine.)
===Text of the Cease and Desist Letter===
====Fan Comments: The Cease and Desist Letter====
=== Revamp & Split ===
In May 2005, Sarvihaara temporarily closed the PSA to "sort out what to do about the new Australian censorship laws" and revamp the site.PSA Main Page at glassesreflect.net. (Archived 10 June 2005 by the Wayback Machine.)PSA NEWS at Sarvihaara's LiveJournal. 17 May 2006. (Accessed 28 January 2014.) The archive went back up in August, with chan (underage) content removed from the site.PSA back up at Sarvihaara's LiveJournal. 09 August 2005. (Accessed 28 January 2014.) The content was moved to a locked LiveJournal group, psa_dungeons.HELP (02 August 2005) and James FQF and PSA update (17 September 2005) at Sarvihaara's LiveJournal. (Accessed 28 January 2014.)
The revamped archive (reopened in August 2005) was closed to new submissions, with new authors added on an invite-only basis. Structural and design changes were made to the site were made through 2007, including preparations for a new database (developed by Silence, who joined the site as an administrator), but the revamped site may never have been completely finished.The update page at glassesreflect.net shows an October 2007 announcement by Sarvihaara that she was "in the process of setting up a database for the site" and promised "some changes soon," but through January 2009, the only other update was a November 2007 announcement of new fanfiction.
In November 2005, fauxwen stepped down as administrator of the Harry fanfiction section, and the site was split into two distinct archives: the PSA for Harry slash, and Stag Night for James slash.PSA - Harry section up for grabs (06 November 2005) and Hello + Stagnight/PSA update (13 December 2005) at Sarvihaara's LiveJournal. (Accessed 28 January 2014.) The PSA was taken over by Silver and Harmony,Two people, one LiveJournal account. See PSA - Site Team, archived 12 January 2007). while Sarvihaara continued to run Stag Night, with help from Mosh. In 2006, the Harry/James subarchive, Immortal Beloved, was started.Immortal Beloved at glassesreflect.net. (Archived 10 January 2007 by the Wayback Machine.)
=== eFiction & scarhead.net ===
June took over the site around 2009.The glassesreflect.net was last archived in September 2009, at which time it was last updated on 06 November 2007 by Silver & Harmony. The eFiction-updated site shows an update on 08 January 2010 made by June, announcing the conversion to eFiction (archived 20 January 2010). In January 2010, the archive was converted to eFiction; previously, the archive was coded manually by a team of volunteers.See the glassesreflect community on LiveJournal for coders and maintainers (founded 08 December 2003), and painless_j's call for volunteers, posted 17 August 2006. (Accessed 09 July 2014.)
In June 2010, the archive went briefly offline because June was unable to renew the domain name, which was registered in Sarvihaara's name.June (teacup82) at the harrydraco community on LiveJournal. Potter Slash Archive (glassesreflect.net). 28 June 2010. (Accessed 28 January 2014.) The site reopened in July at scarhead.net, where it remained through 2014. 
As of October 2016, the site is down; the last copy saved by the Wayback Machine was on 28 September 2015.
== Screencaps ==
File:Potter Slash Archive 2002.jpg|Main page at chibihanna.net, archived 13 October 2002.
File:Potter Slash Archive 2004.jpg|Main page at glassesreflect.net, archived 22 June 2004. Layout art by Snaples.
File:Potter Slash Archive 2007.jpg|Main page at glassesreflect.net, archived 10 January 2007. Layout art by Nebulaean.
File:Potter Slash Archive 2014.jpg|Current site at scarhead.net, screencap taken 18 June 2014.
== References ==
Category:Harry Potter Archives
Category:2000s Category:2010s
Category:Slash Archives
Category:EFiction