A little history
Twenty-seven years of Aria's Ink
Aria's Ink opens its doors as a home for Sailor Moon fanfiction, growing out of Aria's own stories — Sweet Revenge and Chance Encounters among the first on the shelves.
The site grows into a full community: member accounts, reviews and story votes, forums, journals, private messages, newsletters and author rankings. Stories get ratings, genres, seasons and character tags — the same tags you can still filter by today.
The annual Easter egg hunts — eggs hidden across the site every spring, nine years running.
April Fools events with their infamous auctions, alongside gift exchanges, competitions and community awards.
AIMod, the desktop reading companion, lets members download stories to read offline — and completed stories gain downloadable PDF books, many of which are still available in the archive.
The final story update is published — a quarter century after the first.
Aria's Ink becomes a permanent read-only archive: 823 stories by 181 authors — 3,581 chapters and 12.5 million words — free to read, with a further 52 catalogued titles withheld to meet modern UK age-assurance rules.