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dodger_sister

Spreading Out.

Jan 16, 2015 16:20

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 ( Read more... )

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shell_77 January 16 2015, 21:58:12 UTC

dodger_sister January 18 2015, 19:16:22 UTC

I'm thrilled to hear you've finally taken the plunge and got yourself an Ao3 account; it's very exiting news! I look forward to reading your work there. I go by the name: Caughtinblackseyes on that site. Welcome!

It will be nice to have a place where all of my fic can be at one time and seen by all the people, that's for sure. Plus, AO3 is likely to outlive LJ by a long, long while I feel. Someday LJ will just be gone, but as long as there are fangirls, there will be an AO3.

Caughtinblackseyes! Got it! I will keep my eye out! Thank you!

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dodger_sister January 18 2015, 19:19:35 UTC

found you on AO3. hugs

Cool! I already have 5 subscribers following me! That's pretty awesome. :)

vikingprincess January 17 2015, 04:41:26 UTC

I only go to AO3 to read - and that only rarely. I can't handle posting to more than DW and LJ, and probably wouldn't even have a DW account if not for the ways that LJ sometimes fucks things up. :D

dodger_sister January 18 2015, 19:26:34 UTC

I only go to AO3 to read - and that only rarely.

So much stuff is only on AO3 these days - especially in certain fandoms of mine, like Teen Wolf & Justified, that I am reading over there more and more (when I actually get a chance to read anything). Also there are some fandoms that I have written in that you can't even find a crosspost community here on LJ - like Falling Skies. I want to put that fic up and have people actually see it!

I can't handle posting to more than DW and LJ,

That was never my problem with it - it was just having too many places for my things, losing control of my stuff and where it is. I will NEVER post a fic on Tumblr because once it's out there, you have absolutely NO control over what happens to it and I am SO not down with that. But after learning how to do shit over on AO3, I feel better about it - less anxious about the control aspect of it. It's easy to post too. I figure if I spend 15 minutes crossposting and tagging to LJ communities, I can spend 5 extra minutes putting it up on AO3.

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vikingprincess January 18 2015, 22:06:44 UTC

I know lots is there - but I also know that they often need more money to keep going, and sometimes worry that they can't. Besides, I'd feel weird posting any of the co-authored stuff there, and I just don't have that much solo stuff. So, DW and LJ. :)

Yeah, I never want other people posting my stuff. So I'll never use Tumblr! :D

You should! And it only takes one post on DW to hit your journal there AND your journal on LJ. No extra time required!

It's EASY. Go do it! Break your journal into .pdfs by year and save them somewhere.

dodger_sister January 18 2015, 22:39:51 UTC

Besides, I'd feel weird posting any of the co-authored stuff there, and I just don't have that much solo stuff.

Yeah, if your co-author isn't on AO3, then that would not be cool to do. Fannish etiquitte!

Yeah, I never want other people posting my stuff. So I'll never use Tumblr! :D

I put my art up there a few times, but man I hold my breath when I do that, every time. Still, I just can't stand the thought of my fic being reblogged left and right until I don't even know where it is anymore.

It's EASY. Go do it! Break your journal into .pdfs by year and save them somewhere.I actually have this bizarre idea that I want to break them up into like year long pdfs, like you say, and then have The BFF - (who does a lot of anthology publishing for fic and the like) - publish them into little mini books, to preserve long after I am dead. (sounds morbid, but you know, you think about these things when you have a shorter life expectancy). Then someday The Nephew can read them and continue to get to know me, even after I am gone. Except ( ... )

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rhymephile January 19 2015, 18:46:29 UTC

dodger_sister January 25 2015, 19:57:51 UTC

Just in case you missed it, you can upload to AO3 directly from any fic you've posted here at LJ. You'll have to futz with the coding when it goes up, since it reads everything (including LJ tags) and stuff gets out of place on AO3. But it's a thousand times better than copy and pasting, believe me.

I saw that! The BFF actually walked me through it all. But I tried the copy and paste option first and it seems so easy to me. I already have the story page open on LJ, so I just click 'edit' and the copy and paste the fic, leaving out all the header info and whatnot that I would have to delete if it uploaded the whole fic. It takes like 10 seconds. But I haven't uploaded a fic longer than 3k so far, so maybe I'll like the upload option better for longer stories?

rhymephile January 19 2015, 18:55:05 UTC

dodger_sister January 25 2015, 20:05:19 UTC

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 ( ... )

rhymephile January 26 2015, 20:43:19 UTC

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.