What Makes the Desert Beautiful
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Welcome to What Makes the Desert Beautiful! This collection contains works from the archive What Makes The Desert Beautiful (WMTDB), an archive for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fanfiction focussed on the Nick and Greg slash pairing, active from 2004 to 2017, founded by CarolineCrane and moderated by BeeLikeJ.
What Makes the Desert Beautiful is CLOSED to new works.
The import of this archive to the AO3 was approved by the OTW Open Doors Committee on October 2021, and was completed in November 2023.
Links to the original archive were set to redirect to the collection on the AO3 in January 2024.
(Closed, Unmoderated)
About What Makes the Desert Beautiful (WhatMakesTheDesertBeautiful)
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Intro:
This collection contains works originally located at nickandgreg.net, which were imported to the Archive of Our Own through the Open Doors Project. The archive was based on an eFiction platform and was no longer maintainable because of the outdated system and security issues. You can learn more about the import in the import announcement.
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FAQ:
If you still have access to the email you used to post your works to What Makes the Desert Beautiful, you should have received an email with the option to claim your works at the time they were imported. If you do not have access to that email account, or did not receive the notification, please contact the moderator at the contact email address listed above.
All unclaimed works are imported as restricted to logged-in AO3 users only, and [will be/were] made publicly viewable after a 30-day transition period. If you claimed your works before that period ended, you will need to change the restriction setting.
For questions about using the AO3, please contact Support. For questions about submitting works to What Makes the Desert Beautiful, please contact the moderator at the email address listed above.
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Rules:
Original archive rules:
"This site archives slash fan fiction based on the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. All fics on this site feature Nick/Greg as a romantic pairing. The archive is automated, so if you have written a Nick/Greg fic you'd like to see included here, all you have to do is create an account and upload it. Fics featuring other pairings may be archived as well, but the story must feature Nick/Greg in some way.
Fiction in the archive ranges from G to NC17. All fics will be marked with ratings and appropriate warnings for character death, rape, non/con, and other pairings."