Welcome to the World Across the River
For those of you that don't know, Cipher is a fanfiction archive that focuses heavily on Harry Potter, but also adores seeing other fandoms grace its loving walls. It carries a variety of styles and stories, but they all have one thing in common: quality. It is a validated site, which tries to insure that the highest of standards are met in the acceptance and publication of the posted fiction. Furthermore, it is one of the few archive sites that carries stores that are either gen or of any ship, be they slash or het. This is extremely rare in a validated site.
The forum has many FAQS and Guidelines to help achieve progress in writing fanfiction, as well as original fiction, or simply allows you to play amongst other writers who appreciate the written word as much as most authors do.
Of course, if you read either the Cipher intro, or the asylum user info, you would know all this. So, really, I am being redundant. I simply wanted to say hello, and welcome to the loony bin, where you can find the news updates to some of the best fiction on the net. *grin*