Since we had some hits via google about this problem I’ll simply repost what VictoriaCl posted at AHA

Apologies to all who have been trying to get into the JAFF Index since around 7-8 EST yesterday (Tuesday) evening – our Internet line went sour, everything incommunicado, including our webserver. We’re working on it, but no news yet. It’s a line problem, not a server problem, so the site and files are perfectly safe (and backed up anyway)

So, don’t worry, it’ll be back up, soon!

Thank you Victoria for dedicating so much of your time for such a beautiful, useful and well-maintained site!

EDIT: It’s back now! *does a little dance* Thanks a bunch, Victoria – you’re truly a gem!

Hello everbody,

as you can see, we decided to treat ourselves on the occasion of our very first blog birthday – with a homepage of our own. We’ve moved this blog from the free hosting website funpic.de and got a new site called blog.janeites.net.

Please don’t forget to update your bookmarks if you’ve set one!

And for us it’s unbelievable that the blog turned one year old on 24 July 2008 – that was when Fiora decided to be brave and to post the first entry here! Now one hear has passed and after a rusty start with few posts, we manage to update this blog quite regularly now!

Let’s hope that there will follow many years in which we blog here about our favourite fanfictions and in which you readers of course read the entries here!

Hugs

Angelika & Fiora

My oldest sister is newly in love with a guy, but they do have a long distance relationship now that she has finished her job assignment in the Netherlands. And as a farewell gift he gave her 20 red roses, now my thoughts in chronological order

1. Awwwww, this is soooooooooooo cute *sigh*
2. This is something Darcy (or another Austen hero) would so totally do
3. Maybe you can insert this into one of your fanfictions sometime in the future
4. You are such a crazy fanfiction-addicted chick

Yeah, apart from talking to (and admonishing) myself, I am really spoilt by fanfiction, first of all every single incidence in my real life could possibly be adopted for a story of mine and secondly every occurence in my real life will inevitably be compared with scenes from fanfiction. And there’s this thing with Jane Austen’s heroes or rather the way they are portrayed in fanfiction – in 99.99% they are simply dreamy, the perfect Mr. Right, a prince charming that only appears in fiction – and which of course I would like to have for myself. One could easily assume that this also a reason for my status as a single, although I would categorily deny this fact, I’m quite a happy single – fortunately my mother is nothing like Mrs. Bennet and doesn’t worry about my relationship status

Somehow fanfiction has also become a way to escape the reality. It’s some sort of addiction, each time I’m dissatisfied with the ending of a book or a movie (most recent example: “Dear Frankie” with Gerard Butler), I turn to fanfiction, an alternative universe more or less.

Of course, being addicted to fanfiction also has certain advantages – my English improved considerably as soon as I dared to read fanfiction in a foreign language. When I was still at school I was the only one in my English course who knew what CEO stood for because I had read it so often in modern fanfictions where Darcy had been one. Now I’m even considering writing an English story myself…

I think there are worse things than my fanfiction addiction, I’d say. You can easily turn to other things, but I need my fix of fanficiton every day – get yourself your own alternative reality

This is a bit self promotion, I guess, because I’m recommending the story of my fellow and faithful co-conspirator Fiora, but I guess that she’s just too honorable to promote her own story on our blog and so I’ll do it, because the story is totally worth reading (or maybe I’m biased, but that doesn’t matter anyway ). She doesn’t know about this – this is once again one of my solo decisions

It’s Fiora’s second English story (did I mention that I’m totally impressed by that, because she’s actually writing a story in a foreign language?) and it’s called “Caroline’s a victim” (after the song by Kate Nash). It’s available at AHA and 50 Miles and it’s a tragedy in three acts, in which we get to know Caroline Bingley’s reaction to some very shocking news.

I won’t go into detail, I’ll just congratulate Fiora on her story (which of course I like a lot ), in which she portrays Caroline and her selfish fortune-hunting thoughts to perfection. It’s great to read and I’ll just tell you that I – due to our “partnership” (or maybe even axis of evil describes this better *g*) – have the luck to get snippets from and previews of some other stories she’s planning to write and which I consider to be great already, so stay tuned until I once again promote her stories.

Oh, it’s a PIP, two of the three parts are posted already, the last part will follow next Monday!

First of all: The comment problem: We are working on it We are on WP 2.8.1 now, but now that we know that this doesn’t have to do with WP itself, this won’t help the matter. We’ve turned off all the hurdles that could keep someone from posting a comment (which is why we get a lot of spam these days *rolls eyes*), but at the moment we guess that the problem is either caused by server issues or is due to browser issues, we cannot tell, really! Sorry for that!

Now, secondly, to more pleasant news: Linnea Eileen is writing a new story! I found it quite a bit late, because she posts it only at her personal page “Desert musings” – which I have immediately added to our link list and which I will check more frequently from now on. I’m a great fan of LE’s writings, if you are already visiting her site, you can have a look at all her other stories, they are simply great, the Regency ones as well as the modern ones, they are all - without any exception – recommendable.

The new story is called “The Unexpected Entail” and the blurb is as following:

The future of Longbourn is in doubt, all potential heirs must be located, and Elizabeth Bennet may once again be forced to choose between duty and the desire of her heart.

So, to explain this a bit further, Mr. Collins dies and leaves Longbourn without an heir, Charlotte is pregnant, but we don’t know the sex of the child yet. To find an heir, Mr. Bennet has to delve deep into his family’s history and find all male Bennet descendents in order to track down the rightful heir to Longbourn. I’ll tell you who it is, because we are already at Chapter 2 now, where the identity of the heir is revealed: It’s no less than Fitzwilliam Darcy himself! He has family ties with the Bennets that go back more than five generations.

However, to further complicate the matter, the story follows canon a great deal, because the story starts with news of Lydia’s and Wickham’s elopement, which forces Elizabeth to leave Lambton earlier. Darcy now has an additional incentive to follow these two, because he’s already aware of his new status as the heir presumptive of Longbourn, Elizabeth doesn’t now of Darcy’s ties with her.

I really like this story, it’s interesting on so many levels, I eagerly look forward to the reactions when people find out about this new developments, especially Elizabeth and the Bingleys. I’d really like to read Caroline Bingley’s reaction, because she discouraged Charles’ relationship with Jane because of her inferior connections and now Jane has connections with Darcy himself! But it is also interesting how people at Meryton will react, because Darcy didn’t leave such a favourable impression when visiting Netherfield… And Mr. Bennet – I have to quote him, because otherwise it’s difficult to explain:

“He is wealthy with an estate of his own. If something should happen to you, he will not be in a hurry to evict your widow and daughters. And he did dance with Lizzy at the Netherfield Ball. She was the only local girl he stood up with. That must portend to some sort of approval.”

“So much so that he left immediately after and has not been seen nor heard from since.”

Mr. Bennet has no idea that Darcy is in love with his favourite daughter and has met her twice more! So, it’s also interesting how it will affect the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth. It’s good that the story starts post-Pemberley, because we know that Elizabeth will be favourable impressed by Darcy’s (altered) behaviour, but now there are some other hindrances. For one instance she now has much more reason to make herself believe that he didn’t rescue Lydia just because of her, but because of his ties with her family. And what will Lady Catherine’s role be now?

So, you can tell, I love this story already. And I’d say, that I doubt that Lizzy will marry Darcy out of duty (it that’s what LE means with the blurb), but we’ll see, LE has mentioned that there will be 8 to 10 chapters altogehter, but I personally wouldn’t mind if there were more

Oh, and I laugh secretly when I imagine Mrs. Bennet’s reaction if she knew that Lizzy had refused not only one but two heirs of Longbourn!