Spreading Out.

[dodger_sister]

It has taken me two years since The BFF initially suggested it to me, but I have finally gotten an AO3 account. I was hesitant because I have issues with being too spread out in my fandom life, having my fic in more than one place. It's a control issue. I know I didn't have it back in my early days of fandom, when everything was on Yahoo groups

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[dodger_sister]

Also, LOL you talk about posting stuff on Tumblr and having no control over it -- when my Big Bang came out (and before I was on Tumblr), there was actually someone on Tumblr who copypasted a paragraph from it and put it up their Tumblr and it got like 300 notes or something. There were a bunch of people who responded saying where the paragraph came from, which was nice, but if people are gonna steal, they will.

Ugh, omg. Why would someone do that? They're going to go around stealing single paragraphs from people's fic - what is that even?! For me I just don't like the idea that people can reblog and reblog and reblog and then if I ever want to make changes or take it down, it's too late, it's out there, you can never get it back, you know?

If you ignore the teenagers who use the tags like they do on Tumblr and write their friggin' feelings and shit,

I don't understand the people who use it like Tumblr. Like those feelings are for your note section, guys and girls. The tags are there to give you more foot-traffic from the people who want your kind of story!

It's pretty much the one and only place to find reputable fic. I'm not putting fanfiction.net down (okay, maybe I am a little) but the stuff on AO3 tends to be of a higher quality.

FF.net used to be THE place to go, but nowadays it is of less and less quality, for sure.

AO3 is the first time I've been able to see hits on my fic too, which is encouraging. Who knows how many times people have read stuff here on LJ; with AO3 I can keep track for funsies.

The hit counts bother me though because I thus far have 300 hits total and only 11 kudos. Like either my fics are not nearly as good as I thought they were because people aren't taking the .2 seconds to hit Kudos or else people are just so fucking lazy they can't take the .2 seconds to hit Kudos. The BFf says that is a normal ratio but damn, that's disconcerting.

So are you the same name on AO3 - I want to subscribe to you, even though I'll probably still read any new fics of yours on LJ.

[rhymephile]

I am the same name EVERYWHERE, LOL, even on the Playstation Network. Unless I accidentally subscribed somewhere before, no one will be using my name on any service. That's why it's handy.

I think you can turn hits off. I don't, but I've seen at least one popular Dean/Cas story that had no hits listed but turned up when searched by hits.