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

[sophinisba]

anatsuno had a good post (starting where it says "Another thing" recently about why it's a good idea to post in more than one place for like when servers go down and such, and I felt sort of bad because I'd mostly just been posting at the AO3 for the last year, and there was discussion in comments.

There are some people who post fic on Tumblr and I DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE PEOPLE AT ALLLLLL.

[netgirl_y2k]

I had just gotten into the habit of posting only to the AO3 and linking here when the Avengers exploded and the servers went boom, and I went... uh, maybe that was a less than great idea.

Don't get me wrong, there are many things about the AO3 I still want to make-out with (Kudos! The uploading system!) but I think after recent events we're all starting to realise that we'd been perhaps a tad optimistic regarding the archive's robustness and longevity.

I don't know, I need a new system, or a fandom that doesn't so heavily favour locked fic comms, grrr...

SOPHIE, I AM ELDERLY AND CONFUSED AND TUMBLR BAFFLES ME. DON'T LEAVE ME, FANDOM.

[cdybedahl]

I'm also in the "I upload everything to AO3" camp. And I'd like to point out that one way to help fix their performance problems is to simply give them money. Or, if you have contextually useful skills, plain help them out. Unlike pretty much every other archive I know of, their organization is pretty open and transparent.

[netgirl_y2k]

All good points. But, my understanding was that you couldn't donate directly to the archive but to the whole OTW, and while I do love the archive and hope it lasts for a good long while, my feelings on some of their other projects are more, um, mixed. And I doubt that I'm the only person who feels that way.

[cdybedahl]

A very relevant question. I've emailed them asking about the possibility of donating to the AO3 specifically.

[fyrdrakken]

I understand why people choose to post fic to Tumblr -- because they've got a lot of followers there, because things get so easily disseminated there, because it's where they spend so much of their fannish time. What I hate is when they post fics there and nowhere else, because it really sucks as a format to save things in. But, if they're writing stuff they think of as a throwaway, for people to read once and move on, or expect people to just bookmark what they like in the hope it'll still be there if they want to rec someone to it or come back and reread, I can see them as thinking Tumblr is fine.

Doesn't mean I agree. But I can see where the thinking comes from. (What I really prefer is when someone makes a Tumblr post with a link to the fic, which is posted elsewhere -- ideally on AO3.)

[netgirl_y2k]

I don't think I'll ever be a fan of Tumblr, for the same reason I'll never be a big reader of comic books or graphic novels, I'm just not an especially graphics-oriented person. And mostly that' s fine, different strokes and all that.

But as a platform for posting fic and meta, especially if that's the only place you post, it just seems so ill-suited.

[miarrow]

People who post fic (not links, but full fic) on tumblr make me so mad, because I am browsing for pictures not text reactions/non-edited fic.