John Hitchens started this collection on August 29, 1997. In the words of the previous version of the site:
This page came to be while John Hitchens went through his Windows 95 recycle box, where he had roughly 100 MB of Sailor Moon files built up over two years of reading. He restored them all, then culled them. After several years of maintaining the site, he ran out of time. He was going to shut down the site at the end of 1999, but Serenity and Nephrite stepped in and volunteered to keep the page going.
Not long after Serenity and Nephrite assumed ownership, the host they were using was shut down. They moved again, and from what I can tell, Nephrite dropped out of the project at this point. Despite promises to update and add to the collection, the page was static after 2001. The site went offline sometime in 2006. I resurrected the site in 2008. While this site is a static collection of the "oldies but goodies" in Sailor Moon fanfiction, an extra selection of fics of note is available at my journal.
My name is ladyphoenix9, LP9 for short. I do not write fanfiction and I never participated in any major Sailor Moon boards or mailing lists. I am, however, a historian by trade, so I'm really good at saving information. If you came through the Forgotten Fics page, you already know this isn't the only fanworks site I've rescued. If you are an author and need me to make changes, don't hesitate to email me or contact me at Dreamwidth.
The dots are shorthand for noting fics of special interest:
John Hitchens' favorites
LP9's favorites
Highly recommended by outside sources
Recommended by outside sources
The gold and silver split is somewhat arbitrary; while you won't find any bad stories here, the gold stories hold a place of reverence in Sailor Moon fandom.
Originally, many of the BSMFN category pages had their own theme colors. I wanted to do a little callback to that. As you might guess from the number of fics I saved, I have likewise saved a lot of Sailor Moon artwork over the years. While I can't say with certainty, most of the images used likely came from Bianca's (defunct) or grep, while the manga images came from a French manga scan site (name now forgotten to me). A few images may also have originated at the Oracle.
I don't think I've used any images that were intended to be a "site exclusive," but if I have you can let me know and I'll come up with some alternate art.