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The end of an era. R.I.P. Diana the Valkyrie and its webmaster after 27 years in operation

Aug 05, 2024 - permalink

Looking for two specific stories that I can’t seem to find at the archive:

1) “Brandi 4 - Work - Brandi goes nuts at the construction site”. Story was by “Neptune”. I don’t think that author had his own bookshelf.

2) I can’t find this story www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/musclefan/tammy02.txt. I’m sure of that URL because I had it bookmarked but doesn’t seem like there is a snapshot of that story.

Aug 05, 2024 - edited Aug 05, 2024 - permalink

Looking for two specific stories that I can’t seem to find at the archive:

1) “Brandi 4 - Work - Brandi goes nuts at the construction site”. Story was by “Neptune”. I don’t think that author had his own bookshelf.

2) I can’t find this story www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/musclefan/tammy02.txt. I’m sure of that URL because I had it bookmarked but doesn’t seem like there is a snapshot of that story.

Both of those are in my archive download on the previous page. If you're looking at archive.org yourself, you might miss them, since depending on the snapshot date there might have been an "unavailable" page captured, and the Internet Archive web interface can be wonky at times. I combined a couple different full dumps going back years for that reason, along with filling in missing bits from other sources.

You're correct that Neptune didn't have a dedicated author page, but from "library.html" in my archive, if you scroll down to the "Authors of Misc: N" link, his stories are listed there, including "Brandi 4 - Work". The location of the actual text file is "/stories/1misc7/bran04.txt"

Similarly, "library.html" has a dedicated author page linked for "Muscle Fan", which contains his stories, including Tammy Chapter 2, located at "/stories/musclefan/tammy02.txt".

In general, if anyone is looking for a story from DtV and you haven't downloaded the library archive linked here, save yourself some time and just do that. Those links are all the same file, you only need to download one.

Aug 06, 2024 - permalink

Both of those are in my archive download on the previous page. If you're looking at archive.org yourself, you might miss them, since depending on the snapshot date there might have been an "unavailable" page captured, and the Internet Archive web interface can be wonky at times. I combined a couple different full dumps going back years for that reason, along with filling in missing bits from other sources.

You're correct that Neptune didn't have a dedicated author page, but from "library.html" in my archive, if you scroll down to the "Authors of Misc: N" link, his stories are listed there, including "Brandi 4 - Work". The location of the actual text file is "/stories/1misc7/bran04.txt"

Similarly, "library.html" has a dedicated author page linked for "Muscle Fan", which contains his stories, including Tammy Chapter 2, located at "/stories/musclefan/tammy02.txt".

In general, if anyone is looking for a story from DtV and you haven't downloaded the library archive linked here, save yourself some time and just do that. Those links are all the same file, you only need to download one.

Thank you! Very helpful. Especially the URL for Neptune’s stories.

Aug 09, 2024 - permalink

> > I'm sorry but I don't speak English.

You can obviously write English well enough :)

Do you find the process of downloading a file from a link, extracting it etc too technical/complicated? No hay verguenza, if you want I'll explain it in simple English.

I already downloaded it on my own.

Aug 10, 2024 - permalink

I made a copy of thevalkyrie using sitesucker a few months ago. Its 16,900 files and I zipped it up and put it on google drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x1Q18J68YfhE...

Also I found an archive of brawna someplace earlier. It 2500 files. Here is a link as well -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_I6E5k2X1dfJ...

Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

Would you or someone else be able to re-post the brawna archive? That link doesn't work anymore

Aug 10, 2024 - permalink

I'm actually putting together a better version of the brawna.org archive similar to the DtV one. I just have to get back to renaming the folders, the original structure of the collected files was kind of a mess.

Aug 10, 2024 - permalink

Has anyone else noticed that some stories are now missing the final few sentences or paragraphs? At least two of my favourites now have the end missing. Can this problem be got round?

Aug 10, 2024 - edited Aug 10, 2024 - permalink

Which ones? It could have been a capture problem by the Internet Archive, or there may have been an issue with one of the find/replace commands I ran to fix links and such.

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