It's always ourselves we find in the sea

[sovay]

With the encouragement of ashnistrike, rushthatspeaks, and thisbluespirit who kindly provided me with an invite, I have edged slightly into the future and copied my tiny collection of fic over to AO3. It was either that or start retro-tagging entries on Dreamwidth.

Please feel free to come find me, signal-boost, whatever the etiquette is. I've got five fandoms and seven fics and no idea how to tag anything. I do not foresee myself participating in exchanges simply because I write an average of one piece of fanfiction a year, but then again until 2011 I did not foresee myself writing fanfiction at all.

Excelsior?

Comments

[asakiyume]

Definitely Excelsior :-)

I haven't read your recent one that you posted here yet--will I understand it without knowing the base material?

[sovay]

Definitely Excelsior

All right! Excelsior.

I haven't read your recent one that you posted here yet--will I understand it without knowing the base material?

I think so—it's the show I reviewed half of last summer. The salient facts are that the main characters are not human—their powers and personalities resemble their names but do not strictly confirm to them—and it is their business to safeguard the continuity of time, which is subject to intentional attacks as well as a kind of gravitational deformation triggered by the spot-weight of history or the mixing of different layers of time. I used one series character and one character I made up completely. There are also some ghosts.

[yhlee]

*goes over to read in between footwork practice* =)

[sovay]

*goes over to read in between footwork practice*

Yay! Enjoy.

[selkie]

Moohoohoo HA HA HA.

L. S.-S. is author therebutforcabbage .

Just so as you know.

[sovay]

Moohoohoo HA HA HA.

You weren't even part of the encouragement!

Just so as you know.

I had no idea. Thank you. (I know one of those fandoms . . .)

[selkie]

I am also there! But my bookmarks.

[isis]

Yay! Now you can leave comments and signed kudos!

[sovay]

Yay! Now you can leave comments and signed kudos!

I just went through my list of works that I recommend every year (when I can get to it) for Yuletide and kudo'd all of them! I should leave comments as well; I always like receiving them on Dreamwidth.

[isis]

♥

[thawrecka]

Ooh, neato!

[sovay]

Ooh, neato!

Are you on AO3? There do not seem to be the same kind of friending protocols, and a lot of people's handles are different between AO3 and Dreamwidth; I'm mostly hoping people will tell me if they are.

[thawrecka]

Yes, there's definitely no way to friend people on AO3. I am indeed on there, and it has at least 2/3 of my terrible fanfic all the way back to 2002.

[sovay]

I am indeed on there, and it has at least 2/3 of my terrible fanfic all the way back to 2002.

I hope you don't mind that I plan to read it.

[thawrecka]

As long as you're aware that most of it is pretty bad and some is really rather strange, go for your life.

[genarti]

You can't friend, but you can subscribe; it's not the same social function, but it does at least mean you get an alert when the person posts a new story.

[rosefox]

Yay! I'm rosefox too, natch.

All your tagging looks pretty good to me.

[sovay]

Yay! I'm rosefox too, natch.

Excellent! I will go and read you.

I was very surprised that no one had taken my customary handle. I figured in ten years it would have been snapped up.

All your tagging looks pretty good to me.

Thank you. It is really something I have no experience with and looks as though it may have, like Tumblr tagging, a sort of metadata narrative style of its own.

[rosefox]

It does a bit, but mostly it's there to be useful. Two things that are helpful: putting "tags contain spoilers" first in the list if they do, and knowing that many tags redirect to ("are synned to" in AO3 parlance) semantically identical tags for ease of searching. So if you're writing Lucy/Caspian, you can probably tag it any number of Lucy/Caspian, Caspian/Lucy, Lucy Pevensie/Caspian, etc. and it will display as what AO3 has decided is the authoritative tag.

[sovay]

and knowing that many tags redirect to ("are synned to" in AO3 parlance) semantically identical tags for ease of searching. So if you're writing Lucy/Caspian, you can probably tag it any number of Lucy/Caspian, Caspian/Lucy, Lucy Pevensie/Caspian, etc. and it will display as what AO3 has decided is the authoritative tag.

Thanks! I noticed the redirection with a couple of character names and was not actually worried that I had done something wrong, but also was sure what governed it.

[moon_custafer]

like Tumblr tagging, a sort of metadata narrative style of its own.

If you aren’t following ao3tagoftheday on Tumblr, it’s worth a look.

[sovay]

If you aren’t following ao3tagoftheday on Tumblr, it’s worth a look.

I will check them out!

Okay, that's charming.

[moon_custafer]

I’m moon_custafer there as here.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/moon_custafer

[sovay]

I’m moon_custafer there as here.

Fantastic!

[thisbluespirit]

do not foresee myself participating in exchanges simply because I write an average of one piece of fanfiction a year, but then again until 2011 I did not foresee myself writing fanfiction at all.

Ha! Still, it's always nice to have the option - and it does make treating possible if somebody's prompt or letter ever jumps out at you.

And, as I said, your tagging's fine!

[sovay]

Ha! Still, it's always nice to have the option - and it does make treating possible if somebody's prompt or letter ever jumps out at you.

I hadn't even thought of that. This could get hazardous in winter.

And, as I said, your tagging's fine!

*brushes off Tiny Wittgenstein*

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

<3

(Also thank you for all the nice comments!! I have only not yet replied because I tend to save nice AO3 comments - most of the time if my inbox suddenly fills up, it is just tag wrangling comments (much less fun, most of the time) - and also in summer unless it is a cool day, my internet time halves, hence commenting and reading is slower (it was cool on Weds, so I was around). (The perils of still only having a desktop and it sitting in a room uninhabitable in late afternoon and evening. Oh, and it was v nice to see a whole string of kudos in my emails too! <3 <3)

Also now you can navel-gaze re. statistics and which fic inexplicably gets the most kudos etc. etc.

I hadn't even thought of that. This could get hazardous in winter.

:-D

[sovay]

Also now you can navel-gaze re. statistics and which fic inexplicably gets the most kudos etc. etc.

Oh, God, I'm trying not to do that. Most of my fics have just a couple of kudos (the Pacific Rim is the outlier) and I'm already trying not to take it personally!

[thisbluespirit]

Awww. It takes a while for these things to build up anyway! 7 works, only just posted; it's far too early to tell anything. (Give it a year and then angst. ;-D)

[cmcmck]

Now be careful what you do with that strange device, won't you? :o)

[sovay]

Now be careful what you do with that strange device, won't you?

So far, so good . . .

[rushthatspeaks]

Your tags look great, and your Pacific Rim fic appears to be getting some attention. (As are the others, for their fandom size; Pacific Rim is actually a medium-sized fandom in my experience, even though a lot of it appears to ignore the existence of the second movie.)

[sovay]

Your tags look great, and your Pacific Rim fic appears to be getting some attention. (As are the others, for their fandom size; Pacific Rim is actually a medium-sized fandom in my experience, even though a lot of it appears to ignore the existence of the second movie.)

Thank you! I had been wondering why so many more hits on "Whatever You Want to Call It," but if it's a larger fandom, then it's just statistics. I am not totally surprised that like three people have read the Lackadaisy fics.

[kore]

Like everyone said, your tags look good! I am actonbell there.

[sovay]

Like everyone said, your tags look good! I am actonbell there.

Thank you! Excellent. I approve of the name.

[naraht]

Welcome to the madness! I see you've already found me over there so I can only thank you for the spate of likes. I love your writing so it's really rather flattering. :)

[sovay]

Welcome to the madness!

I read three novel-length fics last night . . .

I see you've already found me over there so I can only thank you for the spate of likes. I love your writing so it's really rather flattering.

Thank you! And you're welcome: I am glad to be able to give you kudos in my own name. I think the first year I read Yuletide was the year you wrote "Those voices that will not be drowned" and I loved it at once.

[genarti]

Excelsior! Time for a reread, looks like. :D (And time to subscribe to you, which is a feature I love -- you can subscribe to an author or a series or a WIP story, and then you'll get an email when a new story is uploaded.)

[sovay]

Excelsior! Time for a reread, looks like.

Aw. Thank you! Enjoy!

(And time to subscribe to you, which is a feature I love -- you can subscribe to an author or a series or a WIP story, and then you'll get an email when a new story is uploaded.)

Really, fair warning, it could be another year . . .

[genarti]

Enjoy!

I shall, and already am! :D

Really, fair warning, it could be another year . . .

No worries! I subscribe with zero expectations. And certainly, my own fic writing goes through patches of moderate productivity, and then very long lulls, so I would have no call to scold anyone else even if I were minded to do so, which as a matter of principle I'm not. But to be honest, that's the kind of situation where I find subscribing the most helpful: if somebody writes a ton of fic, I might conceivably get in the habit of checking back every so often (though I mostly don't), but if they don't, that's when it's great to get the heads-up out of the blue that something's appeared.

[sovay]

I shall, and already am!

I'm very glad!

But to be honest, that's the kind of situation where I find subscribing the most helpful: if somebody writes a ton of fic, I might conceivably get in the habit of checking back every so often (though I mostly don't), but if they don't, that's when it's great to get the heads-up out of the blue that something's appeared.

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

[alatefeline]

Hurrah! :D

[sovay]

Hurrah!

Thank you!

[umadoshi]

Yay, AO3 account! ^_^

I'm there as Ysabet, FWIW, but essentially all of my fic there* is ship-focused and/or really spoilery Newsflesh stuff. Ahh, monofannishness.

*Okay, technically I also have one Warehouse 13 piece there. But everything I have on AO3 is post-2012 or so, except for the very first piece of fanfic I ever posted online (in 1997); I once had ambitions of actually getting all of my older stuff (all manga/anime stuff) posted there, but I stalled out after posting that lone story. ^^;

[sovay]

Yay, AO3 account!

Thank you!

I once had ambitions of actually getting all of my older stuff (all manga/anime stuff) posted there, but I stalled out after posting that lone story.

Well, I will go read the Warehouse 13 story, unless your Newsflesh stuff has mermaids in it.

[umadoshi]

unless your Newsflesh stuff has mermaids in it.

Alas, it does not. ^^; (But I still have hope of harvesting that AU's bones for original work.)

[sovay]

(But I still have hope of harvesting that AU's bones for original work.)

Yay!