THIS QUICKLY BECOMES MY NEW OTP

[seventhe]

I need to stop posting just to share lindorie's amazing icons >.>

SO I SHALL TALK ABOUT FANFICTION IN ADDITION TO STARING AT THIS AMAZING THING THAT HAS BEEN ADDED TO MY LIFE.

I've been wanting to do a post for a while - a post that would become a sticky - describing all the different places you can find me and find my shit online. Like my fic, or my really stupid Tumblr, or whatnot. part of this is the current migration; I definitely want to keep friends as they move to DW. (I use DW primarily, although I don't have any plans to stop crossposting at this point in time.)

But part of this is my fanfiction. And I really need to figure out what I am doing with it.

I have brokenprism, where I posted pretty regularly and religiously for three or four years. Stuff is tagged fairly well. It isn't impossible to find shit there. And a lot of it is smaller, drabble-type stuff, short pieces that are -- I'm not saying they're not good, but Livejournal is the kind of place for posting them. They're snack-fic. I don't know.

But then AO3 came along, and I started posting there, and ...it isn't perfect, no, but I do like it a lot. I like freeform tagging, and I like that they've kept comment-threading (even if it can confuse comments/reviews with WE JUST HAD A 12-COMMENT CONVERSATION), and I like kudos, a lot. I like being able to have series works. And I'm writing more chaptered stuff now. I see myself using AO3 for a while.

But -- there are audiences on LJ that aren't on AO3 (not that... I really... care a TON about comments, but, I like meeting people through fic and comments/feedback is always nice). AND, now, DW is soon opening up community importing. I also have brokenprism on DW, but I've done absolute nothing with it.

So now I am like, what the fuck do I do with all my writing?

I'm not really sure I want to import EVERY THING I WROTE ON LJ into AO3. Or if I did, it would be in a different way -- I had a claim of 100 themes on Rydia, and I was up in like the 30s or 40s, and many of them are tiny little things; I don't really want to storm the Final Fantasy IV section with 37 fics of Rydia all of which are 248 words long. I'd have to make it a chaptered fic, or something, and I'm not sure that's worth doing.

But I'm also really the fuck behind on posting things into brokenprism. The last set of things I've written, like for DOINK or Chocobo Races or for other gifts, or whatever, haven't made it in there; none of the Gundam Wing shameporn made it in there; I really need to crosspost it all and catch it up. IF I plan on keeping BP/LJ as a fic archive. And if I do, I should probably make BP/DW an archive too, simply as more fandom moves to DW and also because DW allows longer entries and longer comments and ACTUAL COMMENT HEADERS and it isn't LJ.

(does anybody know -- can I set crossposting options somewhere for communities? So that like... if I post something AS seventhe TO BP/DW, it will crosspost AS first_seventhe into BP/LJ? Or is this totally wishful thinking)

ANYWAY

So somebody dictate my archival life kthx

Comments

[lindorie]

omg your tags, I AM STEALING THEM

Also there needs to be more wand jokes, I'M JUST SAYING

The FAQ for crossposting says you can't do it for communities. Bleh.

Um. I agree with you about drabbles being like snack-fic appropriate for LJ/DW. I guess... let Broken Prism take precedence, and then work on importing to AO3?

[seventhe]

TAGS NOW FITTING FOR EVERYTHING

Also damn! I wonder if I should change them to users... but I like that they are communities. I don't know why; I just like the feel of it better.

[lindorie]

Well. Comms are nice for writing dumps. I like them because they're a way to keep work separate without having different accounts. I can control my posting from my main accounts, YAY POINTS FOR BEING LAZY

[seventhe]

EXACTLY THIS. I'd never remember to log out or in to the right account and everything would soon be a clusterfuck.

[lindorie]

So maybe different users wouldn't be the way to go, not if you don't want laziness to cockblock your productivity

Maybe you can upload DOINK/Chocobo Racing/gifts/shameporn first since they have more precedence, then other AO3 appropriate fic, and save LJ/DW for last?

Oh man no kidding, this is a bit of an organizational clusterfuck

[seventhe]

Yeah, that's my thought -- take some time to crosspost the "more important" stuff, the longer stuff from DOINK and CD and terrible shameporn (PRIORITIES~~~~~), and making the 'important' parts of my AO3 archive and my other archives match. And then, I guess, going from there, depending on how many fucks I have.

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[lindorie]

Now you have a vote in that direction! O.<

There, there, child. Irvine/Snape is always willing to hold you.

...XD

[seventhe]

HOLD ME HARDER, SWEET TERRIBLE OTP

[lassarina]

Well, I think the community import makes putting your LJ stuff into BP/DW a lot easier (guess who manually imported every goddamn thing into rose_of_winter yeah that'd be this chick).

I keep drabbles only on DW even though a lot of people post them to AO3; I would feel weird about dive-bombing the FF6 and FF4 sections. I started one for my Edge/Rydia claim, but never really finished it. And I write drabbles pretty infrequently anymore.

tl;dr IF YOU COME UP WITH AN AWESOME PLAN LET ME KNOW because I might totally steal it.

[seventhe]

Yeeeeeeah. I figure I will at least port BP over to DW, now; it's my "plan for future posting" that I need to figure out. Maybe I will continue to post small/silly things on DW/LJ and then crosspost the bigger ones.

I think it also... I miss ff_press. Because I knew that posting to LJ/DW meant it would be picked up, and there was the chance of more readership. now it's almost like AO3 has more readership since the newsletter is so very ded. :/

[lassarina]

This is clearly why we need to bump ffarchive more. yes. we will make of it a pseudo-newsletter?

idk. I wish you could subscribe to fandom tags on AO3. I know it's coming, but in the meantime, having to manually check each fandom makes me less likely to read.

[seventhe]

Well also, ff_p will - hopefully - be re-emerging soon! As soon as we can get pinboard to work! So we won't have to do too much for too long :D

[lassarina]

Yaaaaay I have missed it~

[wallwalker]

This is wonderful news! XD

[albijuli]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[lindorie]

YAY

[wallwalker]

HMMM.

I've uploaded drabbles to AO3, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, VG fandoms need more representation on AO3 in general, and I pretty much feel like more fic is a good thing to that end no matter what! Besides, there are freeform tags for drabbles and ficlets and the like that are easy enough to add, so I kind of feel like it would be easy enough to avoid reading for the people who don't really care to read them (quite aside from the easy-to-see word count bit.)
On the other hand, it really does feel a bit weird, both posting them individually (artificial inflation of fic count) and posting them as chapters of something else (they're not even related half the time.) Posting them as a series probably makes the most sense out of the options I've thought of! Still, it can be kind of time consuming. Even if you import them.

So, um, I don't know? I favor archiving on AO3 but I acknowledge it can be a pain!

[seventhe]

These are EXACTLY my thoughts on posting drabbles and stuff to AO3. ESPECIALLY because the video game fandoms are so quiet -- I would feel like my 37 drabbles just FLOODED the fandom and then SAT THERE, and it would feel kind of awkward. Haha. Even at ff.net my stuff would soon move off of the front page. video game fandoms are so small at AO3. (But then again... posting drabbles! Would help! RIGHT? OH GOD.)

Maybe I'll mostly skim through them and... I don't know. Post selected ones in a collection?

[thene]

I've been thinking about this too, particularly regarding the (quite a lot of) tinyfics for rare pairings/canons that I've written for memes and challenges, and which languish in individual LJ comments where no one who wants them will ever find them. Do they go on AO3, on a fandom archive comm, or do I start maintaining a personal masterlist, or what? Do I post even the mediocre ones on rarity grounds, or let them lie in the dark forever? :/

[wallwalker]

Do I post even the mediocre ones on rarity grounds, or let them lie in the dark forever?

I'd post them, if only because over the years I've had people give me comments and "likes" on pieces that I thought were mediocre, if not downright substandard. And when I do post something, then have it removed because I think it's bad, I invariably get someone eventually saying, "Hey, I liked this! Why did you delete it?" This even happened on my very very first unfinished fic, which was an unfinished FFVI Mary Sue epic that eventually would've involved Kefka being brought back to life as a decent guy. I had someone tell me after the fact that he'd enjoyed it, and that he'd actually saved it off of the website that I'd had it deleted from!

[thene]

OH IKR the only time I've ever deleted any fics was last summer, when I had been going over some canon and deciding I just couldn't stand by what I'd written about it 8 years previously because I am not a freaking teenager any more, and one of my friends was sadfacing at me about it within weeks.

I guess I'll archive, but I may well backdate them. hm.

[wallwalker]

Hm, maybe you could backdate them to whenever they were written? That way they'd be there and people could find them, but most of them wouldn't be sitting at the front of the list forever.

[wallwalker]

(Also, I posted this in the wrong place. D'oh!)

CkXsfSNoCTE

[(Anonymous)]

AirenWolfOMG I could hang my windchimes from this! SA-WEET! If only you had bent over the other way the swhoer could have given you a great time!

[seventhe]

...I had totally forgotten that AO3 let you do that. That actually isn't a bad compromise either. :D

[albijuli]

re: icon

I must inform you that Snape's also the Metatron! Irv gets curbstomped double. :3

And, uh, since I've long had my writing stuff on DW (and creeping up on Ao3 slowly but surely)... not sure what to do in your situation. I'm leaning toward "FFFFFF MAKE COPIES" option. And I'd abandon LJ entirely have LJ as a lesser priority for updating things.

[seventhe]

I had forgotten that. Irvine has no chance. None at all.

[novel_machinist]

LOL

Honestly I did this myself recently. I got rid of my fic journal on LJ.

I sort of consolidated. I'm only really reblogging stuff on tumblr, so it doesn't count I don't think. And twitter's just spam too

but I have roost for original stuff, my AO3 for finished fanfic and drakonlily for shit I may never finish. XD

[owlmoose]

In Dragon Age fandom, a lot of people have a single "story" in which they post their drabbles/shortfic as individual chapters, then just make it clear in the summary. I don't know how I feel about this practice. For myself, I post the shorts that I think are worthy as individual stories and have gathered them together into a collection. If I ever get back into writing FF shortfic, I expect I'll do something similar.

I no longer consider LJ/DW to be my complete fic archive; that's what AO3 is becoming. The journal sites were never really a great place to search for fic, anyway. I still have my archive over on owlmoose.com, but I haven't updated it in nearly a year, and I really don't think anyone is visiting it. I go back and forth as to whether I ought to revive it, or just draw a line and say "this is my fic through 2010, visit AO3 for the rest".

[seventhe]

oh, gosh, that's another thing I totally forgot to mention: I have seventhe.net which I keep meaning to set up as an archive and then totally forgetting about. So not only is there AO3 and this DW/LJ thing, but like... i have a website (that I don't use) that I SHOULD use.

i think shortfic is where I get stuck, too. Because... I like it and it has its purpose, but I used to write a lot of it, and I'm loathe to transfer it to a "serious" archive like DW.