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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[rustydragonfly]

I thought I was the only one who didn't have an ff.net account! I suppose it can't hurt to try it out.

It's looking a bit windy where I am, but not much. My colleague in south Wales rang me earlier to say it was really heavy there.

[aeron_lanart]

The Wirral looks dreadful - New Brighton is under water for a start. I'm pretty glad I live on a hill and away from the river.

As for ffnet, I might dip a toe in seeing as I exist there already much to my surprise.

[rustydragonfly]

I guess we're getting off light here.

I've been curious about ff.net, but for obvious reasons I'd have no use for it. Sometimes I've wondered what Fictionpress is like, but I don't know if it gets that much traffic.

[the_silver_sun]

I've had a ff.net account for about 5 or 6 years and haven't had any trouble over there. The occasional baffling comment, but no spam unlike LJ (although LJ seems to have actually fixed that of late). You get a lot of people who I think must be clicking 'follow' rather than 'favourite' by mistake as you often get follow on completed story.

Posting is easier than it was when I first started as you can copy paste now rather than just uploading. It still has the issue with section dividers within chapters disappearing, although I've found it's happy with xoxox or similar as a divider.

Over all I'd say it was probably worth doing, as it is a different audience - although I did find with the Torchwood fandom that a lot of the people on ff were the same ones who were on LJ.

Weather here (Bradford) is pretty windy too, about 30mph with gusts up to about 60. Seems to be calming down a little bit now though.

[chaotic_binky]

It's really windy here. We had hail as well . Glad I am not out in it :)

[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.

[beesandbrews]

I post some of my work on ffn. It's all short work of the non-graphic variety. I'd hate to post something longer with formating because of the antipathy that site has for HTML and the fact that I've learned to hard code things like < em > and < strong > as I write so I have to manually go through and change those using their special buttons.

Most of the comments I get are okay. I had one person get really shirty with me and try to start something. I eventually wrote a rebuttal comment to their review and never heard from them again.

It's a venue with a different demographic, neither better or worse than anywhere else, really.