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.

Comments

[netgirl_y2k]

Yeah, I haven't used ff.net since they started randomly deleting punctation (although I do kind of miss some of the comments I got there; some of them were amazingly smart and insightful, some of them were lolsome) and one of these days I really should come up with a way to navigate tumblr more advanced than hoping it will go away if I ignore it for long enough.

It's mostly that thing where you move to fandom most of your f-list isn't in and going, good God, why must I learn to navigate this new thing, which, yes, is pretty similar to the old things, but is still a NEW THING and as such I already hate it.

[amaresu]

I thought we were listing random fic things. I haven't posted over there since I decided no amount of readers was worth dealing with their crappy uploading system. So terrible.

Tumblr is evil. I had to stop reading it altogether because I'd go on for 'a quick check' and look up three hours later. Worse than TV Tropes. Not to mention how awful it is for holding conversations. I read a couple of Tumblrs on my RSS feed and that's it.

I hate that feeling. Especially when you have to figure out where the fandom is hiding. Silly fandoms.

[netgirl_y2k]

People can say what they like about AO3 (and I realise they can say quite a bit, and I don't even necessarily disagree with all of it) but after years of ff.net their uploading system was a godsend.

I have tried to engage with tumblr a number of times, but it's just not for me. And the the thing was the only thing that ever provoked me to reblog or comment was things where people were wrong on the internet and it quickly became a blog almost exclusively of things I hated. Which is just not the way I want to do fandom, you know?

[amaresu]

I'm a tag wrangler and I don't disagree with everything people say. Hell some of the things people say are things we're constantly fighting about behind scenes. But their uploading system was an amazing thing. It's a multifandom archive that I can actually use.

The thing that got me with Tumblr was that I could spend hours there without doing anything of substance. I'd reblog pretty pictures or comic scans and I'd maybe comment on one or two items. There was no depth to the place? If that makes sense. I could engage with people, but it wasn't easy and if the conversation went more than a few back and forths I just felt sorry for anyone following me who didn't care.

Tumblr good for low stress, low impact, low everything fandom. Bad for actually wanting to do fandom.