Four Things (one rec, one announcement, and two complaints)

[jain]

1) For anyone who hasn't been following this year's apocalyptothon and/or hasn't read the story Aqua et Ignis (Dresden Files TV) that was written for me, you should really consider doing so. It's plotty and involving and has an appropriately frightening apocalypse, an awesome Harry voice, and the best Harry/Morgan relationship I've ever seen. (Okay, it's also the only Harry/Morgan slash story I've ever seen, but even if there were hundreds out there, this one would still be awesome.)

2) I now have a clever plan (for some value of the word "clever") for how and where to post my fic. According to my poll of several weeks ago, there's about a half-and-half split between people who only like to read fic on a journaling site and people who like to read fic on the AO3. Meanwhile, I prefer to have my fic in as few places as possible, because then whenever I notice that I've made a typo or have a continuity error or written something inadvertently offensive in my story, I can correct my mistake a lot more easily and quickly. (Which, alas, I find myself doing with a sad regularity.)

Accordingly, the plan is to post fic initially to DW/LJ and to the AO3 (and theoretically to my personal website, as well, though I'm terribly lazy about that), and then after some time has elapsed--say, two to four weeks, or, you know, whenever I get around to it--to replace the fic posts on DW/LJ with links to the AO3 versions of my stories. I'm also going to be going back through my past entries and doing the same for them.

3) I've been getting the urge to write meta lately (topics I've considered: whether a character exists separate from his or her depiction in the source material; when "she's too good for him" really means "she's too good for the way he treats her"; why some het ships garner widespread approval in [slash] fandom and others don't; why certain Arthur/Gwen shippers annoy me; navelgazing about my own shift from being a slasher to being a ficcer who mostly writes slash), only to get blocked after a couple of lines and have to put it away. It's like being subject to all of my usual anxiety about posting/commenting/communicating-in-general times ten. Sometimes I really hate my brain.

4) One of the worst things about having been involved in online fandom for over a decade is the huge amount of fic that I read and loved years ago and that has since disappeared off the face of the internets. This announcement brought to you by my recent desire to read Horatio Hornblower fic and Amber's popslash stories.

Comments

[jeeps]

i never even read the gambler AU! but the one i miss the absolute most is creation myth where, iirc, jc is a werewolf? i can barely remember the details, but man, she changed the way i read and write (along with others; i will forever remember popslash as the fandom that BLEW MY MIND).

why would I read it on paper when it was right there on the internet?

this is a lesson all of us must learn in our fannish career. sob.

[jain]

I don't remember "Creation Myth." (Or, rather, I get a strange buzz of recognition concerning it, but absolutely nothing tangible.) Popslash really was incredible at taking strange premises (as well as not-so-strange premises) and making them work; there was so much creativity and so many talented writers in the fandom during its heyday.