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tennessoui · 6 months ago

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I adore the TA AU, but I feel like it needs a few more snippets before it could go on Ao3 and feel like a proper fic (not b/c of word count, but because it feels like there are a few key emotional moments missing). (What there is is so good!)

i guess that's the question though, like. a lot of my ficlets i have are just that--ficlets, meant to either lead into another ficlet eventually or lead into answering asks about the ficlet where i then talk more about the au and it gets all fleshed out.

is posting just a ficlet enough on ao3 or is it dishonest to what the au is on tumblr?

i think the ta au is a good example of that, where there are multiple ficlets but it may not feel complete in ficlet form because part of the au is the short ask answers and tags and head canon reblogs that can't be translated over easily to ao3 because it was born on tumblr and it's by it's nature a tumblr au

another example i think would be the princess diaries au where there are 2-3 really good ficlets i like a lot that i think people would like to read but they are by no means close-ended and they're written to leave the concept open to embellishment later on

so when it comes to aus like those, do i wait, do i try to write more, do i keep them solely on tumblr....and when it comes to aus that are JUST one ficlet but left-open ended, does that get to go on ao3?? do i wait?? do i try to write more?? at that point, is that no longer a copy-paste over project and an active effort to translate from tumblr norms to ao3 ones?

#asks #i think perhaps the professor can fuck me ficlet translation was an outlier #cause in my mind i was like yeah i don't think i want to write more for that au #in my head it feels very neat and closed #and it reads that way on ao3 #but some of these aus are wild and unruly #and hard to translate because some of the best parts aren't fics but like. short and sweet ficlets #like the divorce lawyer au #or like how do you translate the lumberjack anakin au #it's just a bunch of pain in the beginning #and i dont have the time to piece it together or flesh it out into a story story #what i like about tumblr is that it feels easily free form #i can dance around and forget the heavier parts #because the heavier parts - we've talked about them on tumblr #the lumberjack anakin au has three ficlets but we know what happens outside of those ficlets #because of asks and talking about it #i just feel like that element can't be hosted on ao3 and that element is so important to my understandings of a lot of my aus #which i mean im not trying to argue that these shouldn't go on ao3 #but it is sorta difficult #or like it was effortless to really put the professor can fuck me au on ao3 #but im coming up short of an au that could follow #like!! what is the selkie au #one ficlet of their first date. and then 40 more posts about it #how does that get put on ao3 without me also sitting down and writing 40k to put it all together

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