Alara.net/Crossroads X/Alara's Spiffy Magneto Page

Alara's Spiffy Magneto Page is a fansite focusing on the character Magneto from the X-Men (mainly comicsverse). It is a subsite of Crossroads X, which has separate pages devoted to several X-Men characters and themes. Over the years it has had various names, as the page has grown and improved. It started out in April 1997 as "Alara's Rather Sad Magneto Page"An Archive Announcement, acff at googlegroups, April 27, 1997, became "Alara's Getting Spiffier All The Time Magneto Page"Alara's Getting Spiffier All The Time Magneto Page, via Wayback Dec 1/98, "Alara's Spiffy Magneto PageAlara's Spiffy Magneto Page, via Wayback Oct 8/99", ending with "Alara's Now Rather Spiffy Magneto Page"Crossroads X, via Wayback Mar 25/23. 
It has a link index for Magneto fanfiction, filk, poems, Magneto FAQs and background info, reviews of fan fiction, pro fiction and Marvel works featuring Magneto, a link collection and a Magneto graphics collection with fanart and scans.
The archive collected 742 stories from 171 fanwritersDue to the use of writers' real names on Alara's archive, they will not be posted here for privacy reasons., plus fanart from 8 artists: Bliss (fanartist), GLAMbeau, Detlef Henke, Indigo, Miranda, Chris Pangle, Laura Pierson and Adam Walters.
==Contents==
* New Fanfic! - new fanfic were announced on this page.
* Page Submissions Policy
(Notes in italics by Alara)
*The Magneto Mailing List: The Magneto Mailing List is a forum for anything having to do with Magneto. Includes fanfic and discussions and pretty much anything else.
*Fanfic Links - All the Magneto or Joseph stories Alara was able to find on the Web.
**Index of Indexes - with multiple separate pages to allow for faster loading, sorted by:
*** Magneto's Role In the Story
****Main Character Stories
****Secondary Character Stories
****Stories Where Magneto Doesn't Appear In All Parts
****Alternate Magnetos
****Media Magnetos
****Not On The Web - These stories that feature Magneto are only available in fanzines. Includes gen (suitable for all) and slash (adult, featuring m/m relationships).
***** The Celestial Toybox Magneto Series
****** "Father Figure": Alice Aldridge. 9 pages. Celestial Toybox 8.
****** "Regret": Alice Aldridge. 7 pages. Celestial Toybox 8.
****** "Child's Play": Alice Aldridge. 16 pages. Celestial Toybox 8.
****** "Grapevine": Sue Collins. 10 pages. Celestial Toybox 8.
****** "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows": Alice Aldridge. 27 pages. Celestial Toybox 9.
****** "Cannonball Express: Excess Baggage": Alice Aldridge and Sue Collins. 22 pages. Celestial Toybox 9.
****** "Cannonball Express: Dangerous Crossing": Alice Aldridge. 22 pages. Celestial Toybox 10.
****** "Cannonball Express: Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow": Sue Collins. 17 pages. Celestial Toybox 10.
****** "Cannonball Express: Cross-Ties": Alice Aldridge and Sue Collins. 33 pages. Celestial Toybox 11.
****** "Cannonball Express: Collision Course": Alice Aldridge and Sue Collins. 31 pages. Celestial Toybox 12.
***** Slash Zines
****** "The Hellfire Club": Elizabeth Holden. Adult, m/m. Magneto/Cannonball. 15 pg The Summer I Turned Frisky
****** "Personal Magnetism" and "Magnetic Personality": Elizabeth Holden. Adult, m/m. Magneto/Gambit. 17 pages, Cohorts 3
*** Author's Name - Authors A to L - Authors M to Z
*** Story Title - Stories A to L - Stories M to Z
**The Lost Stories: Stories whose archive has died and which are not available via the Wayback Machine or any other archive I have found. If anyone has these, please let me know.
*Filks, Songs and Poems
*Magneto FAQs and Background Info - The FAQ page collects all kinds of articles on things having to do with Magneto, from discussions of the Holocaust and the real-world physics of magnetism, through collections of information about the Marvel comics with Magneto in them, to extrapolation pieces that use what we know about Magneto to try to solve the mysteries, danglers and contradictory retcons of the character's past.
*Reviews - Contains links to "Recommended Reads", the "Hall of Shame", and the "1999 Maggie Awards" for best Magneto fanfic. Also, new reviews have been added.
**The 1999 Maggie Awards
* Picture Collections
== Plagiarism Accusations? ==
This was posted in 2008, apparently in response to some controversy:
== Current Status ==
The last update of the page was rather epic:
The page is still available via the Alara.net archive, but has not been updated since January 4, 2006.
==References==
Category:X-Men Archives
Category:1997 Archives
Category:1990s Archives
Category:2000s Archives