GoT Fic!

[netgirl_y2k]

You know, it occurred to me recently, because I've been writing a silly amount, that I don't actually know what the social-norm for posting fic is anymore. Like, are you supposed to post only to AO3 and link, or is each fic meant to get its own LJ/DW post? Do people still hate the AO3? Are fic comms even still a thing? Why is Tumblr?

Me = being bad at things that come naturally to the other kids since an undisclosed point in the 1980s.

Anyway, have some femslash with added dragons. Also, the title has nothing to do with anything, I just panicked.


They Will Crown You, They Will Take Your Legs
Game of Thrones; Daenerys/Doreah; PG; 2000 words.

She is not a god, Doreah told herself, she will not burn you.

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[fyrdrakken]

Stuff is still getting posted to fic comms, or showing up in recs comms, or being posted in individual LJ and/or DW posts. I definitely prefer it when the people posting are offering up links to the AO3 version as well as the LJ/DW posts -- I've seen a few people including the AO3 link on their own LJ posts (or in their recs posts on an LJ comm, as an alternative to the LJ link they also offer), but a lot seem to think just one link to a given story is sufficient (or possibly that anyone following an LJ comm is happiest getting LJ links). I've picked up the habit of, when provided with a link to an LJ-posted story, going to AO3 and searching for the author's name. I've found the AO3 version of the same story often enough to persist in the habit. (A day or two back I got recced to a story that was LJ-only -- and in 21 parts, some of them broken into a and b sections -- and it filled me with woe. The authors are on AO3, they just haven't uploaded all their old stuff. Mind you, the last time I found one of their Big Bang fics and sucked it up and saved the webpage it was saved to and used Calibre to convert it to MOBI, it turned up on AO3 maybe a few weeks afterwards.)

[netgirl_y2k]

I do that too, search for a fic I've read elsewhere on AO3. Especially when I want to rec an ASOIAF fic that was originally posted to one of the locked comms.

As an aside, I love people who repost their stuff their.

Plus, it's led to a few moments of: Oh, it's you, when people use different names o LJ and the AO3.

[fyrdrakken]

I've been known to delete my previously-saved version of a story (that wasn't even broken up into multiple chapters by LJ posting limits) and replace it with the AO3 version if and when I run across it later (whether because the author posted elsewhere first and uploaded to AO3 later, or because the author has differing usernames on different sites), as well as downloading the MOBI file to add to my Kindle if I think it was worth making easy to reread.

Also, very confusing when people like to change their usernames over time (or have different names on different networks) -- sometimes I gather it's a deliberate thing, wanting a new name for a new fandom, or having picked up a flock of trolls they're trying to ditch by dropping a particular username (I know at least one person this is true for), or having had non-fannish friends and family learn their username and having to frantically cover their tracks (I know two people who've had this problem).