When I first went looking for Caryl fanfiction, I was looking for an archive like I’d been used to in the Buffy fandom, that held all the treasures, new and old, of the fanfic world in my chosen pairing. I didn’t find it, and was more than a little surprised to find I could only read Caryl on private blogs, on fanfiction.net and on AO3. I believe there is a great need to foster community around our ship, gathering all our fantastic fanfiction in one place so that anyone seeking it out can find it easily. With this site I hope to foster that sense of safety within our own community, support for writers and readers with the inclusion of the chat box and chat room, a beta service, a moderated service that helps those entering the fandom to improve their work and thus improving the reading experience of all Carylers that want to read quality fanfiction. What we are about is acceptance and support, love of Carol and Daryl, Melissa and Norman, and hopefully a place where our detractors can recognise that this is not their space to impose upon.

So, please come on in, join up, submit your work, read other people’s work, shout out a hello, get to know the place and above all, ENJOY THE CARYL AND HAVE FUN!

Your administrators for the site are Peta2, Spikeslovebite, Atoizzard, and Fairies Masquerade. If you have any problems, please don’t hesitate to contact us. If you find any hiccups with the site, remember we are new and still ironing things out, so let us know if something doesn’t work. You can follow fic updates on Tumblr at ninelives2.

I hope you all seize this opportunity to build the most kickass Caryl archive there can be.

Stay Safe!