The DC Fic index community should have some. Not that I recall where it is, exactly. But I've seen it!
E. How do you feel about...having the general subject of a post in brackets in the subject line? For instance, a post titled, "[meta] Can Soulless Spike Be Redeemed". Do you do that, the "[meta]" part? Have you done it? Have you thought about doing it? When you see other people do it, does it make you feel a certain way? It always makes me think: "I should do that! Then I would have to go back and do that to every post. Dear god, am I really that anal? Is that person as anal as I am? OMG I'M NOT ORGANIZED" *frantic hyperventilating and quick scrolling past the post* Not really, but something like that.
I do it because I'm the least organized human on the planet. It's like a lo-jack for my thoughts.
After YEARS of LJ, and being Miss Random Subject Queen, I realized OMG, I couldn't freaking FIND posts I *knew* I'd made. (Seriously, by random, I mean, there was a time when my subjects tended to be "!&--" or some other random characters that meant something at the time [in that example, "bang and dash"] in the code that my brain was using then, but that I can no longer decrypt.)
And I'd go painstakingly through the archives, cranky at myself for thinking "...so, heh. monkeyspice." or something was a descriptive enough subject, always having to search EVERY SINGLE POST in the general timeframe before finding the one little snippet I needed.
Finally, I snapped, and started to add "[Subject]" to my "!!! FLAIL!!!" subject lines for the sake of my sanity.
K. Does the idea of the S8 BtVS comics make anyone else sad? It depresses me and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I would not be upset if there was an S6 of AtS. I mean, I'm glad that there'll be L. more Buffy and that Whedon is doing it, but it feels kinda bittersweet to me, and that makes me feel like I'm being a spoil sport.
Dude, totally.
M. Can you name all the episodes of AtS and BtVS? If you can't, can you at least recognize all the episode names? If you can't, about how many ep names per season would you say you know? When I first got into this fandom I was shocked by how many people seemed to know the names of eps, but now most of the time when someone says one I know which ep they're talking about.
I used to, but they blur now. I'd know it if someone mentioned it.
R. Do you mentally edit other people's fics when you read them?
All the time.
S. How many days after you post a fic do you feel like the fic probably got most of the fb it's going to recieve?
36 hours.
T. How much do you edit your fic in the post window/Semagic/other client? This is assuming you write your fic in a word processor. Is it just select all, copy, paste, and go? Or is it C&P and then add code? C&P and one last edit? C&P and add header info?
Depends on the length. One-off things that have never seen a beta, they get a final edit in the post window, then a C&P into the source file.
U. How much do you think about the A/N? Do you only think/write it after you finish, or do you sometimes compose it in your head/write it as you write your fic?
Usually a last minute thing for posting.
V. What does an A/N Mean To You, anyway?
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
W. Why are forced marriage fics (fics where people get sold into marriage, or have to marry to prevent something stupid, or have to take up a pretense of marriage, etc) so compelling? I ask this as one who reads summaries about forced marriages and sniffs like the arrogant bitch that I am, then turns around and reads them. There are some freaking great ones out there, but I wonder why this plot in itself is so attractive? 'Cause it sounds stupid, and yet I find myself drawn.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer the first).
After YEARS of LJ, and being Miss Random Subject Queen, I realized OMG, I couldn't freaking FIND posts I *knew* I'd made.
I haven't been around years...but I'm having the same difficulty. Actually, I don't know why I so often need to go find old posts of mine, but it's happened enough to where about a month ago, I spazzed and retitled every single post I'd ever made since I got to lj. Now I might need to do it again, with brackets. I...fear myself.
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
I have a love/hate relationship with them. I hate reading them, get on with the story please. I love writing them, I get to explain what I'm on about. But then writing them becomes a torturous process, because I try to make them short so as not to annoy myself, who hates to read them. I'm...bad at writing short.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer the first).
I was wondering about the trashy romances. But where did the trashy romances get it? But yeah, it's a circle.
The DC Fic index community should have some. Not that I recall where it is, exactly. But I've seen it!
E. How do you feel about...having the general subject of a post in brackets in the subject line? For instance, a post titled, "[meta] Can Soulless Spike Be Redeemed". Do you do that, the "[meta]" part? Have you done it? Have you thought about doing it? When you see other people do it, does it make you feel a certain way? It always makes me think: "I should do that! Then I would have to go back and do that to every post. Dear god, am I really that anal? Is that person as anal as I am? OMG I'M NOT ORGANIZED" *frantic hyperventilating and quick scrolling past the post* Not really, but something like that.
I do it because I'm the least organized human on the planet. It's like a lo-jack for my thoughts.
After YEARS of LJ, and being Miss Random Subject Queen, I realized OMG, I couldn't freaking FIND posts I *knew* I'd made. (Seriously, by random, I mean, there was a time when my subjects tended to be "!&--" or some other random characters that meant something at the time [in that example, "bang and dash"] in the code that my brain was using then, but that I can no longer decrypt.)
And I'd go painstakingly through the archives, cranky at myself for thinking "...so, heh. monkeyspice." or something was a descriptive enough subject, always having to search EVERY SINGLE POST in the general timeframe before finding the one little snippet I needed.
Finally, I snapped, and started to add "[Subject]" to my "!!! FLAIL!!!" subject lines for the sake of my sanity.
K. Does the idea of the S8 BtVS comics make anyone else sad? It depresses me and for the life of me I can't figure out why. I would not be upset if there was an S6 of AtS. I mean, I'm glad that there'll be L. more Buffy and that Whedon is doing it, but it feels kinda bittersweet to me, and that makes me feel like I'm being a spoil sport.
Dude, totally.
M. Can you name all the episodes of AtS and BtVS? If you can't, can you at least recognize all the episode names? If you can't, about how many ep names per season would you say you know? When I first got into this fandom I was shocked by how many people seemed to know the names of eps, but now most of the time when someone says one I know which ep they're talking about.
I used to, but they blur now. I'd know it if someone mentioned it.
R. Do you mentally edit other people's fics when you read them?
All the time.
S. How many days after you post a fic do you feel like the fic probably got most of the fb it's going to recieve?
36 hours.
T. How much do you edit your fic in the post window/Semagic/other client? This is assuming you write your fic in a word processor. Is it just select all, copy, paste, and go? Or is it C&P and then add code? C&P and one last edit? C&P and add header info?
Depends on the length. One-off things that have never seen a beta, they get a final edit in the post window, then a C&P into the source file.
U. How much do you think about the A/N? Do you only think/write it after you finish, or do you sometimes compose it in your head/write it as you write your fic?
Usually a last minute thing for posting.
V. What does an A/N Mean To You, anyway?
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
W. Why are forced marriage fics (fics where people get sold into marriage, or have to marry to prevent something stupid, or have to take up a pretense of marriage, etc) so compelling? I ask this as one who reads summaries about forced marriages and sniffs like the arrogant bitch that I am, then turns around and reads them. There are some freaking great ones out there, but I wonder why this plot in itself is so attractive? 'Cause it sounds stupid, and yet I find myself drawn.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer the first).
Man, I love those things.
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I haven't been around years...but I'm having the same difficulty. Actually, I don't know why I so often need to go find old posts of mine, but it's happened enough to where about a month ago, I spazzed and retitled every single post I'd ever made since I got to lj. Now I might need to do it again, with brackets. I...fear myself.
Annoying Noise. I mean, authors notes. I hate having to write those things.
I have a love/hate relationship with them. I hate reading them, get on with the story please. I love writing them, I get to explain what I'm on about. But then writing them becomes a torturous process, because I try to make them short so as not to annoy myself, who hates to read them. I'm...bad at writing short.
Tropes deeply embedded in our cultural frame of reference? Some fandoms, Aliens Made Them Do It just doesn't quite work with canon? Over consumption of trashy romances at tender ages (see answer the first).
I was wondering about the trashy romances. But where did the trashy romances get it? But yeah, it's a circle.
Man, I love those things.
Uusually, I hate myself for loving them.
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