#i should not have ao3 access

[dhyanshiva]

My plan to tackle post concert depression + emotional high is to propel myself into dukh over Faruv. Highly intelligent plan :)

Blame Unkown/nth for being so powerful it forced me to need to project outwards!

[dhyanshiva]

This is the core pillar of the 09.06 publication lol. This is a reblog for myself so I don't forget to add this tag.

(x)

[magicaltimelady44]

so like. if anyone else, like me, still has the occasional fanfic they follow on fanfiction.net, and hasn't been getting the update emails for the longest time and was wondering if ti meant the site is on its last legs

no

no they've done something stupid as fuck

you have to opt back in to getting the emails/notifications of new chapters every six months, because they automatically assume you don't want to know when the fics you followed for the updates have updated

[coulsonlives]

Antis whenever people in fandom donate to a fandom archive:

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Featured Fic Friday!

Welcome to Featured Fic Friday! A day where I, or someone who suggests one, tell you about a fanfic that I really enjoy! Spoiler's under the cut! Today's featured fic is...

The Before and the After by Lost_And_Alone (Not Rated, Complete)

Sans had an incredible breakthrough! Using some spare parts, he was able to create a device that could teleport people much like his shortcuts, all powered by his own magic! He… might have gotten some calculations wrong during his coffee-filled building craze though, and now he was stuck with a grumpy, extremely wounded future version of himself. Oops? Oh, and he was stuck there. Much to the other him’s chagrin. Or: Sci, before he discovered the multiverse, accidentally gets himself stuck in Geno’s Save Screen. Geno is not in the mood for a mess like this. But Sci seems intent on befriending his much older, jaded version of himself, so Geno will have to deal.

Although a very short fic, the author takes a concept that I haven't seen before & writes it very well! Honestly, it makes me wish that more people out there wrote similar things.

The characters don't feel out of character, being well written considering the scenario the author writes them in!

Spoilers ahead!

I'm not the biggest fan of Sci, but I do enjoy how the author characterizes him in this fic! I am a big fan of Geno though, so reading about him interacting with a version of his younger self is so intriguing to me!

I love the scene where they meet again, although I do wish the author expanded more on how they reacted to seeing each other again!

I do think it's interesting how the author actually has Geno leave the Save Screen, which I don't think I've seen done very often! Not that it's a bad thing, but it is note worthy!

[dhyanshiva]

Me going wherever the hell I want wrt to Cla$$

is this fic self-indulgent? yes. but what you're failing to consider is that I can write whatever I want so it's fine

[call-me-kitty]

Happy Halloween!

Here's a meme

[dhyanshiva]

The planning for the bookend pieces of one of my series (or more precisely the last installment) is fucking horrendous and my access to my laptop should be barred.

[virescent-v]

For Secrets and Stakes...

[dhyanshiva]

lif + the pool series' whole premise <3 /lh

There is truly no greater love than taking your most adored fictional character and throwing them into the emotionally-devastating angst fueled trash compactor and pressing every single button on the machine just to see what will happen

[shubaka]

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[dhyanshiva]

The call-out is INSANE my God (love you so much, fellow clown 🤝🩶)

VERY accurate. If not overtly then somehow EVERYTHING even ORIGINAL work is tied if not anchored to grief.

I mean, I'd love to catch a break but also it is what it is, for now.

So yeah :')

you ever accidentally create a recurring theme in your writing. you start putting together an outline for something you’ve never written before and get partway through planning, rearrange the pieces, and go “GODDAMMIT THIS IS ABOUT GRIEF AGAIN”? because let me tell you,

[nextimeiny]

funny (read: irritating and sad) how pretty much everyone agrees that l*li and sh*ta stuff is weird but the moment you make it yaoi and post it on ao3 it suddenly becomes the discourse topic that we'll be forced to talk about for the next ten billion years

[icarus-suraki]

I don't like wading into Ao3 debates, but I want to give my professional opinion on Ao3 with regard to archives vs. libraries.

I am a professional librarian (MSLS) and I have worked in both archives and public libraries and a lot of the confusion and concern I see surrounding Ao3 is a fundamental misunderstanding of How Archives Work.

An archive is a collection related to a subject. That subject is often a person but sometimes a field or concept or project. And the purpose of an archive is to keep everything. And I mean everything. I was going to say "short of biohazards" but since I know there's a sealed R. Crumb Devil Gal chocolate bar in the UNC Chapel Hill archives, we really do mean everything.

When a collection of materials--which are usually unique and original and can be photos, manuscripts, letters, recordings (audio and/or visual), notes and notebooks, objects, published books, whatever--on and/or from the subject arrive at the archive, they are examined, preserved for longevity, accessioned and cataloged (added to the archive's records), and added to the archive. You measure collections in linear feet. As in, once it's all preserved and boxed and secure, you note how many feet of shelf space it takes up. And some of y'all on Ao3 have a lot of linear feet to your name (and I'm proud of you).

This is an archive: it is designed to preserve the original materials related to a subject. That is its purpose. Archives are how we have the original scroll manuscript of On the Road, for example, or the Lomax recordings of American folksongs, or Tijuana Bibles, or James Joyce's loveletters to Nora.

Now you, a member of the public, can access some archives. Some are easier to access than others. The one I worked in was open to the public; good luck getting into the British Archives without a good reason.

So now apply this to Ao3--which is an archive both in name and in purpose. It is intended to preserve fan-created content long term. And this means everything, whether you personally like the materials or not. It is a repository for as much as possible.

And the "whether you personally like the materials or not" is important, hence why I mentioned Jim's loveletters and Tijuana Bibles in particular. (RIP Jim, you would have loved pegging.)

If it's made by fans and it exists, we should keep it to document the history and progression of fandom. That is the point. We have lost enough materials related to the subject of fans of media and we don't need to lose any more.

The fact of the matter is that Ao3 is only one facet of the OTW, which preserves other fan-related materials (convention booklets and zines, for example). Somehow Ao3, an archive on the subject of fanfiction, has been divorced from the rest of the project, mostly by way of "purity culture" and panic over "dangerous" fiction.

The fact that you can go through an archive and find interesting information is the other side of archives. No, they shouldn't be like the banker's box of old letters stuffed in my closet. Yes, they should be organized and as accessible as is appropriate for the state of the materials.

It's really, really cool to find stuff in an archive, I'm not even going to lie. I have done it before and I will do it again. And yet there are other items in an archive that I might not want or need or be interested in at all--but they're still there. That's the cataloging and accessioning: to keep up with what's there, to stay "on topic" with collecting, and to be able to find things in that archive. Bless the tag wranglers who are doing the cataloging at Ao3.

The pearl clutching seems to come from 1. the creation of "dangerous" fanworks and 2. public access to those "dangerous" fanworks. These are issues of "purity culture" and opinions on censorship and should not involve Ao3.

Ao3, under the umbrella of the OTW, is a documentation and preservation project first and foremost.

[dhyanshiva]

I'm so fucking tired, no wonder my brain is on a Dhruv Sanghvi (especially) projection carousel lately, given how WIP generation is literally my only outlet (super unhealthy ik but nothing to be done about it) and lemme tell ya, I'm so tired of my brain.

Also taking great willpower to not give into the persuasion of wiping my ao3 - it's like a marker atp.

Lord help me. Anything or anyone if not God, even.

[dhyanshiva]

Gonna be me soon but I think I'll just sort my bullet points very properly then accelerate. Both of them look like they're gonna reach at least 10k. So yeah.

But SIR that's my emotional support unedited 8000+ words of an in-progress fic I can't publish yet because it's not chronological