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I am le tired. I possibly need to start taking something, anything, even a placebo, to make me sleep. I got three hours, maximum last night, which is great when compared to the two hours I managed last Saturday. It takes me at least an hour, normally between two and three, to get to sleep and apparently this is Not Normal. *grump*
I've also been thinking. (Painful.) I've been reading fanfic of some sort or another since I was thirteen, so I have seven years of links in more fandoms than I can remember (including some pretty bizarre ones). One of my friends, having heard me talk about fanfic incessantly tried to look for some by herself, with no prior experience, and ended up on the hell that is fanfic.net. So I said I'd show her the ropes and give her a list of the best multi-fandom rec sites, the best archives and how and where to look for fic, especially because old fandoms, like the West Wing (Ainsley/CJ = my new OTP, closely followed by CJ/Toby and, well, CJ/pretty much anyone, Allison Janney being a gazillion kinds of hot) tend to have a lot of broken links and so you need to know how to use The Wayback Machine. To me this sounds pretty easy and self-explanatory, but then I've been doing it for as long as I've been on the Internet and even I get stuck/get my eyeballs scorched by horrible writing. There are also all the terms we use such as OTP or slash, WIP or AU, plus some that are fandom-specific such as pairing abbreviations. I know there are places that deal with all of these, but I've yet to find a multi-fandom guide to fanfic.
On the other hand I have thirty two pages of Max Weber to read before tomorrow and a house to clean (been housesitting) before my mother gets back and realises that I've been Eating In The Living Room. This is a cardinal sin in her eyes, especially Eating On The New Sofa, for which, I kid you not, she has threatened never to let me sit on it ever again and also not to make me welcome for anything other than Christmas, birthdays and the occasional Sunday lunch. I know this sounds fairly dramatic, but she's fairly OCD (bleaches everything, every night) so she would actually carry out on her threat. Hence, hoovering is my new best friend. Yes.
I think I'll do it. Make a multi-fandom recs guide/list thing. It'll pass the hours away at least :) xx
I've also been thinking. (Painful.) I've been reading fanfic of some sort or another since I was thirteen, so I have seven years of links in more fandoms than I can remember (including some pretty bizarre ones). One of my friends, having heard me talk about fanfic incessantly tried to look for some by herself, with no prior experience, and ended up on the hell that is fanfic.net. So I said I'd show her the ropes and give her a list of the best multi-fandom rec sites, the best archives and how and where to look for fic, especially because old fandoms, like the West Wing (Ainsley/CJ = my new OTP, closely followed by CJ/Toby and, well, CJ/pretty much anyone, Allison Janney being a gazillion kinds of hot) tend to have a lot of broken links and so you need to know how to use The Wayback Machine. To me this sounds pretty easy and self-explanatory, but then I've been doing it for as long as I've been on the Internet and even I get stuck/get my eyeballs scorched by horrible writing. There are also all the terms we use such as OTP or slash, WIP or AU, plus some that are fandom-specific such as pairing abbreviations. I know there are places that deal with all of these, but I've yet to find a multi-fandom guide to fanfic.
On the other hand I have thirty two pages of Max Weber to read before tomorrow and a house to clean (been housesitting) before my mother gets back and realises that I've been Eating In The Living Room. This is a cardinal sin in her eyes, especially Eating On The New Sofa, for which, I kid you not, she has threatened never to let me sit on it ever again and also not to make me welcome for anything other than Christmas, birthdays and the occasional Sunday lunch. I know this sounds fairly dramatic, but she's fairly OCD (bleaches everything, every night) so she would actually carry out on her threat. Hence, hoovering is my new best friend. Yes.
I think I'll do it. Make a multi-fandom recs guide/list thing. It'll pass the hours away at least :) xx