Cogitations about Fanfic.net

[aeron_lanart]

I have long had a hate/hate relationship with ff.net, dating right back to its early days in the late 90s. To me it was always a bastion of intolerance, full of totally batshit insane people being downright nasty about anything that didn't pander to their opinions ('you're a crossover writer? fuck that shit!') and criticism that was everything BUT

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[donutsweeper]

FF.net has a worse reputation than it deserves, I'd say. I crosspost some of my longer things there. Certain fandoms are bigger there then elsewhere- DW/TW for example, gets little traffic on AO3 but seems to be read on ff.net. Comments-wise I don't remember any problems, even on my crossovers, although there tends to be textspeak and there aren't a lot and occasionally they're only tangentially related to the story.

We had massive snow storm yesterday. Blargh. Weather issues. :(

[aeron_lanart]

So my 2 Dresden Files/Doctor Who fics might not be bad ones to start with, then?

I was thinking of uploading parts of the Mystery Verse, leaving out the ones that are mostly smut.

[donutsweeper]

TW crossovers seem to do fine there, I can't remember how my Dresden Files one did offhand, but I know I've gotten a few comments and a bunch of favorites for my SGA, NCIS, and SPN ones.

[rustydragonfly]

That actually surprises me, I'd have thought DW/TW would be the sort of fandoms you'd see a lot of on AO3.

[donutsweeper]

It's not *unread* it's just not actively read either. I think there might be a subset of DW/TW culture there- New Who focus and certain ships only maybe? Kudos and hits-wise my fic just sort of sat there with only a little traffic going to it.