Following the trends like a dutiful fandom ant.

[antennapedia]

One: Well, I've joined the masses at the AO3, aka the "archive of our own". I've only posted a few stories so far but I'll probably eventually get everything up there. It'll be nice to have a backup archive in addition to my singing and dancing one. Performance seems sludgy, particularly on story posts. Perhaps this is the Yuletide rush

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[emelye_miller]

I just got an account at AO3 yesterday. I didn't see too many problems with it myself, but it is a beta.

[antennapedia]

It is the beta contract: "We have bugs!" "Look at that, you do! I will report them!" "Fix fix fix!" "Yay!"

I'm curious what it will be like when it has something approaching the archive size of ff.net. E.g., ff.net has 37,500 Buffy stories. AO3 has 1832 stories. ff.net has 435,217 Potterverse stories. AO3 has, no kidding, only 2004.

[lily_diablo]

And here I thought I was the only one who got obsessive about particular songs or albums for writing. Before I switched over to using songbird as my player, I'm going to have to do some reconstruction, since my media player had dozens of playlists from writing one thing or another that didn't or aren't transferring over politely. It usually starts with a particular song (in rare cases an album or a voice) and I usually build a playlist out from there -- there are typically several incarnations of the list for any one story or character. :) And yeah, I keep them all.

[antennapedia]

I tend to avoid vocal stuff for these writing soundtracks, except for a few special exceptions. Because sung words distract from the wordiness going on in my head. I'm more after moods than concepts. Ambient music and electronic stuff are just what I'm after.