insert appropriate boyband song title here [2012 winter challenge index]

[templemarker]

I don't have the brains to do one of those proper year-end round-ups; honestly all I have in my head right now is Jonny Lee Miller's glorious ass and half a dozen different IRS forms. But! Here are the things I received and the things I wrote for challenges, all but for the thing I wrote for Teen Wolf Holidays, which will be revealed on Saturday

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[mementis]

Huh. I don't know if it's the latest iteration of LJ shenanigans, or some other kind of shenanigans (shenanigans all around!) but I see this post on my fpage three times (with minor variations). In case it helps and we're not seeing the same thing, they are: http://templemarker.livejournal.com/54832.html (this one), http://templemarker.livejournal.com/54778.html and http://templemarker.livejournal.com/54308.html

Anyway, OMG, you busy bee! New tm fic, I'm so excited! :)

[templemarker]

Thanks for that heads up--I had the most awful time trying to crosspost this from DW to LJ and it must have triple posted.

So, question: previously, as you know, I've been posting the full stories to DW/LJ, my archive, and AO3; the initial response to my poll suggests that very few people are interested in seeing the full story posted to LJ, but rather more people are interested in seeing the full story posted to DW. In your opinion as a reader, do you think there's a benefit to posting a full story to DW, if the story is otherwise posted to an archive?

My thinking is that I would post the story to my archive and AO3, and then announce on LJ/DW/tumblr/etc, but I can't tell if there's some particular benefit to posting to DW that I'm missing.

[mementis]

I see the basic divide as one between archive and archive+discussion. AO3 (and your own site) may be accessible enough for leaving comments, but neither offer a sense of any community among the commenters, between the commenters and the author, etc.

For personal tech/process reasons, I prefer to read things at AO3 - but I do also like to offer comments, and I do sometimes love a good conversation around a fic, and I've yet to manage either of those things consistently at AO3. So it's down to LJ or DW, but because LJ keeps falling down (and doing increasingly stupid things with friends' pages/attribution/privacy) that leaves DW.

[templemarker]

Yeah, I've had the same experience with AO3, and on the whole, comments as a form of feedback (as opposed to the g-d kudos or seeing a rec elsewhere) have significantly decreased in my experience over the last two years.

I'd like to think that if I posted the whole thing to DW it would generate some more textual feedback, but to be honest, I'm pretty sure many an author is just looking at statistics for a measure of how well their stories were received at this point. It's the end of an era--no more letters of comment that faded with the listservs, no more comment tsunamis fading with the journaling services. Now it seems to be the "like" button or the hit count.

[noeon]

I love you for writing Newsflesh. That is all :D

[templemarker]

Thanks! It was awkwardly fun.