Fanfic Es

Fanfic Es was a Spanish-language archive for het and gen fanfic. It was created in 2007, in response to users of Amor Yaoi who wanted to post het and gen content. Its layout was very similar to that of the fic archives Amor Yaoi, K/S Archive and SlasHeaven — partly because they are based on eFiction —, but over time the design was remodeled for a different and unique new layout. After its closure, its was partially restored by Bitelchux in mid-2022, being converted into a reference site about fanfics in Spanish.Bitelchux in Spanish — mechanically translated into English — at new fanfic.es I decided to rescue the web once it was blurred and convert this web into what it should be, the reference web of fanfics in Spanish. Accessed on July 7, 2024.
==Site History==
At first it also had a tagboard at the bottom where users could chat, recommend stories or roleplay. Said tagboard only lasted a few months and was removed by Marfil after it was repeatedly misused. One image per story was allowed at first, but to save bandwidth, at some point they were all deleted and this feature removed. The website frequently suffered crashes that lasted several days and Marfil changed servers on several occasions in order to give it stability.
The page was divided into several sections: Anime and Manga, Comics, Cartoon, Literature, Film, TV Series, Videogames and Original Stories. Initially, it hosted fanfics of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but due to a lawsuit filed by the author, these stories were removed and new stories were banned from being posted from that moment onward.
In 2012, anonymous comments were enabled on an experimental basis, to decide whether to implement them permanently or not.News Section 12/06/2012 11:00 The decision was reversed in 2015, after a group of users from the forum "Los Malos Fics y Sus Autores" (Badfics and their authors) used it as a tool to circumvent their ban. Marfil banned Malosfics users on the premise that their reviews weren't constructive criticism but rather malicious and humiliating flames directed at the authors.News Section 16/10/2015 11:50Post by Deirdre in the Malosfics forum where they document the mail exchange between Marfil and Malosfics regarding the deletion of reviews coming from Malosfics users: 
In 2016 the page changed servers for the last time and fell on administrative abandonment by Marfil. None of the support tickets were answered from that moment onwards and until the page was closed. Nor were stories or reviews that broke the rules deleted again. The new web design was criticized by users for finding it dark, bland and using comic sans.
==Content==
===Archive Rules===
In addition to the usual rules against plagiarism, etc, Fanfic Es has the following rules: 
*Unfinished fanfics that have not been updated for more than one year are deleted.
*Titles such as "Please read" or "Untitled", or titles containing symbols such as @#$~%^& are not allowed.
*Chatfics (SMS format) are not allowed.
*Stories showing any of the following in a positive light are not allowed: drugs, rape, abuse, pedophilia, or sexual abuse of minors.
==Fanfic.es's Closure==
The website closed on March 22th 2022. After years of neglect, a new post was posted on the website's blog by Marfil on March 16th 2022. A translation of the blog post:
At the time of its closure, fanfic.es had 19723 stories stored written by 8540 authors.
Because they're run by the same person, fans fear that the same thing will happen soon to Amor Yaoi.
Some fans have made efforts to rescue the stories but because of the short notice, not all fanfics could be saved.. There is a backup of the stories made by Klauhunlove Maledicere, and a project to save waybacked stories into an AO3 collection of external bookmarks by olderthannetfic aka. franzeska.
===Fan Reactions to the closure===
==Fanfic Es Comeback==
After the official closure of the archive, a backup was restored and uploaded to the site's url — without the www — by Bitelchux, a former user of the website. The site's section titled "recommended blogs" links to other pages, with other content, such as pornography, sales channels or meditation guides.
However, even though almost two years have passed since its reopening, the organization of the site is almost non-existent. 
What makes difficult to sort through the stories due to the current lack of tags and a search engine. 
Initially the site displayed only the first 20 stories from the top categories, with "covers" randomly selected from the internet including AI-generated content, even random images unrelated celebrities or uncredited fanarts from the wrong series. A big difference from the original fanfic.es page, which contained no covers. Interestingly, the few restored fanfics are all from the Harry Potter fandom (mainly Dramione), with the other categories empty on the site.
The rest of the fics should be manually browsed through the hundreds of pages at the bottom. In July 2024, they were allocated into categories, with their own websites, which follow the same design as the new website's main page. 
As presented by Bitelchux, the site is only a reference page at this time, and is not open for creating new accounts or publishing works. A small introduction has been added to the main page, with videos and texts that explain what a fanfic is and a brief history of fanfiction.
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==References==
Category:Het Archives
Category:Spanish-Speaking Fandom
Category:2000s Category:2010s
Category:Gen Archives