For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

I have to say, whatever else about this job, I am developing a liking for doing the records. There's just something fundamentally satisfying about handwriting information in a big, leatherbound book. One that has latin headings on the columns and everything. I just ... I like that. It just satisfies. It really does.

Apparently, LJ is going down the tubes again, this time at speed. I'm going to be backing up my fic to a couple of locations:

- I'll be backing up my original fics to my dreamwidth (which I haven't used in two years, because I don't multitask very well -_-;). If LJ goes completely or I get booted off, DW will be where I move for journaling as well. *muses* I might move some of the more coherent meta essays over there too, if I've got the time. *winces*

- I'll be backing up any fanfic not already there to AO3. All my Avengers fic is already over there, aside from small things, as is most of my smaller fandom stuff and anything written post-2012 (I think). The main things I haven't sent across yet are things on the DC, SPN and Sanctuary lists.

That'll be another big job, though, and I don't have a lot of time right now, so does anyone have any stories they'd like me to back over there as a matter of priority? Or any of the smaller things that I might have missed that you haven't seen over there? Also, any non-fic posts you'd like me to copy over onto DW, either, for whatever reasons?

*sighs* I hate having to move.

I have recently figured out both the profile 'statistics' function and the 'sort and filter' function on AO3. Just in time to spot this meme going around. Yay me?

But anyway. Have an AO3 Meme:

... It took me way, waaay too long to realise that if you edit a story on AO3, it bumps it back up the list order on the site. I wondered why I kept losing track of stories on a tags search if I editted them -_-;

See, I tend to do this thing where I write my best stuff at around four in the morning. And then I post it up, because otherwise I can't sleep with it sitting there (my neuroses, let me show you them). And then I go crash out for however many hours I'm allowed to sleep, and some time the next day, I will actually go back and read whatever the hell I posted, and find all the four-in-the-morning, what-were-you-thinking typos. And I will edit the story to fix them. About twelve odd hours after I first posted it, usually.

Which, I'm now realising, keeps the story bouncing around the day's story listings on AO3, because the site thinks I'm updating or something.

Um. I really, sincerely apologise for this -_-;

(I have tried just saving the story to post the next morning, but every time I do, I reliably find myself back downstairs at half-five in the morning thinking itchily what I did wrong, wondering if I'm supposed to keep writing - I write in solid blocks, usually, one piece at a time, which is why so much of my stuff is as segmented as it is - and I can't get to sleep unless the thing is posted, and thus mentally designated 'finished' in my head).

Um. So. Yes. Apologies for my weird writing habits bouncing stuff around on people, yes? *ducks sheepishly*

Does anyone know why Situational Analysis isn't linking forward to Hand Under Sword in the header? I mean, it lists itself as Part 4 of Creation-Connection and Part 7 of JARVIS, but doesn't acknowledge that Hand Under Sword exists as Part 5/8, even though both series count HUS as part of them. Um. Does anyone know why?

Although, this is only in the header. The series continuation at the end of the fic does link forward to HUS. *shrugs, baffled*

I've just sent the Nigel/Nikola series over to AO3. *smiles tiredly* Apparently, the series as a whole weighs in at some 26,600 words. Huh.

Looking at moving more of the Sanctuary masterlist over now. Heh.

I'm in the process of porting over mythology related fics. I was just wondering ... Should I/would I be allowed to port over the Mythology meme? Because it's not technically a fic, it's just a collection of fic scenarios. It's just ... also rather funny. *smiles sheepishly*

And, while we're on the subject? I'd forgotten I'd a pure Norse myth fic. And a pure Greek myth fic. Huh. I need to scrounge around more, so I do.

As in, my top 10 (actually 11) stories by hits, and my least favoured stories by hits (again, 11). And I'm mostly thinking this meme is an indication of which fandoms are more active than others, but howandever.

I should also mention that the first story I posted on AO3 was posted 16 days ago. As in, this is the activity I've gotten in roughly two weeks.





Interesting, I think, primarily for fandoms and fandom activity. Probably not too much of an indication of me as a writer, I think. Though I could be wrong. *grins sheepishly* Oh. And thanks to all who browsed around over there. *ducks head* Thanks.

To my AO3. *rubs bridge of nose tiredly* Okay. I've been porting over most of the non-main-phase fandoms. I've moved across more HL, more GO, Dresden Files, Babylon 5, Sherlock Holmes, some DC. Haven. Stargate Atlantis. I'm trying to decide at present how much of my old Blake's 7 fic I want to admit to. Ditto ST:TNG. *shrugs sheepishly* I've written some ... questionable stuff, over the years, yes?

I also ported over the nine completed chapters of Gotham Noir, despite it having lain unfinished for ages, because I discovered that AO3 has an 'abandoned/unfinished' tag, and I'm still really, really proud of the story. *grins sheepishly*

There are also a lot of smaller ficlets that I'm wondering whether I should bother with or not. *muses* Not sure.

Now the main thing, I think, is working out how much of the main-phase fandoms I want to go up. I'm inclined to leave most of them to the LJ masterlists. But ...

Any suggestions/requests?

Right. I have a plan. Sort of. I'm thinking, I'll put those stories that don't have a place on any of my LJ masterlists first. As in, small fandoms, one-offs, that sort of thing. Also, probably stuff off the old DC Masterlist, since it kinda ... wasn't. A Masterlist, that is -_-; Long fics after that, then. And then ... well. *smiles faintly* Lets get that far first, yes?