While poking around in my LJ for something else, I found a couple more ficlets that I never crossposted to AO3 (I've never moved all the drabbles, but anything that's a couple hundred words I figure I might as well). So a couple of them were Kara/Sam and so I do what I've done a bunch, and I type in "Sam" in the Relationship field so it'll bring up the autocompletes that have "Sam" in them. Sam/Kara is usually on the top because it's the biggest that has him in it.

Except it's not there. At all. Like, Sam/EVERYBODY ELSE is in the list. there's Sam/Kara/otherpeople ot3. But Kara/Sam by itself isn't in the list. IT WAS THERE. WHERE THE FUCK DID IT GO??

(I mean, yes, it's just the autocomplete, it's not like the ship doesn't show up at all, I just don't get how it can disappear out of the list or at least doesn't come back when I put in new fics). I sent a message to support, so hopefully they can fix it, or whatever.

Anyway so that made me grumpy. :/

Fiddling with that (and reading old LJ entries - back when I actually made them!) was sorta distracting away from my plan of the week, which was supposed to be put up another chapter of Last Contract, which didn't happen. and get ready for Comes the Hurricane, which sort of happened. I still want to at least start it in Sept since (a) I promised, and (b) it doesn't do any good to wait longer, probably.

However the main thing that happened was that I suddenly realized that the Maximoffs needed to show up in my Marvel Bang so I was busy writing on all that instead. Or really they decided they needed to show up, which is probably a good choice, I just wish I'd thought of it earlier, so I have less to rewrite/figure out again.
OMG the (old) Yuletide Archive is actually moving to AO3!!! Finally. At long last.

(I'm fairly sure this is a sign of impending apocalypse, so beware of zombies Real Soon Now.)

I only have three little fics left there that need transfer, since I imported the longer ones already, but it'll be interesting to see how it works. I find it pretty funny that the old archive still has the old date of 2010 as when they were hoping to move it. Also, wow, that also makes me realize how long AO3's been around. I think they should probably take AO3 out of "beta", heh. (also hm, my AmerPsycho fic for Yuletide 09 which was, IIRC, the first year it was hosted at AO3, was, for a long time, my most hit fic at AO3, but has been left in the dust. Though it's still fourth for comments).

Speaking of old fics, I was poking through my WIP file and found about 5K of an old SPN fic of Dean, Lisa, and Ben on a road trip running from angels. It was actually really fun to read and now I'm disappointed I didn't write more of it. If it weren't basically 'Legion' it'd make a good candidate for serial-number-scrubbing (since LOL, who's going to look at that and say "oh yeah, that's totes SPN") , but maybe if I change the bad guys after them and make some other tweaks... I just really like my Lisa-voice in the fic. Anyway, shall stick it into my - 'this needs something to happen to it" folder.

Got a mournful "you writing Comes the Hurricane Nao plz?" today. I really need to sit down and fix it - the timing is all fucked up. I think it's time to pull out actual index cards and lay it out. This is what happens when people on three different planets need to do stuff. ACK BRAIN ASPLODE.

So that's tomorrow/today's project... in addition to posting new parts of the fics. At least there's no baseball today (though I've been playing 2048 instead. I hate when you know you screwed up a move and it's all downhill from there....)
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While I wait for my Yuletide fic to cool (IOW, I have a draft, I'm just not sure it's done), I went through to do some archiving at AO3 and ff.net. I figured I should upload Proserpina there, since it's PG and it's nice to represent K/S over there occasionally.

Then I couldn't find the Lee/Sam-on-Caprica fic I knew I wrote to upload to AO3. I checked my fic tags, then I checked bsg-kink and epics, and then finally went back post by post to find that I didn't tag it. ARRRRRGH. there's half an hour of my life I'll never get back.

But it does mean that I now have a shiny new "space hotties (lee/sam)" tag, since I've now done three fics for them. And two in the same 'verse, including last night's, which is kind of the way-future of the Lee-on-Caprica AU. Because I don't have enough random AUs of BSG!
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I was ridiculously excited last night to discover the subcollection for Yuletide 2010 already exists in A03. Nothing else is there, it's an empty folder basically, but still - EEEEEE! YULETIDE IS COMING! \o/

I uploaded the most recent Nellis-verse BSG fic to AO3 - Feather Dusting - and discovered the series totals 10,000 words. Which strikes me as a lot for nothing but Porn Battle PWPs.

You know how people discover cool vids at YouTube? I discovered something Un-cool. Namely THREE thumbs down on my wee Planetside Caprica video at YT. :( :( :( You suck, mystery people! I know I didn't GO anywhere with the whole project, but picking on my little baby is mean. uncool, H8RZ

*sniff* In consolation, I'm going to listen to "Feel Good Drag" and imagine the Stefan/Katherine video I want to make to that.

Finally, I discovered that the new Linkin Park has gone off the reservation for me. Mike, I love you man, I'm glad you're trying something different, but... no. You want to do weird concept things, stick to your art. (I wanted the whole album to be like "The Catalyst" but it's not. at all.)
lizardbeth: (Bourne Trucco)
( Nov. 16th, 2009 10:17 pm)
I have an invite for anyone who'd like to join the Open Beta phase for An Archive of Our Own , a fan-run, all-pairings, all-fanfic archive run by the Organization of Transformative Works.

I personally dislike how fanfic has become centralized on LJ -- LJ is okay for posting fic, but it's terrible for finding fic, especially if you get into an "old" fandom. And ff.net is problematic because of their restrictions (among other things - but no open archive will get rid of the bad fic). So AO3 has started to create an archive more friendly to Fandom (as a whole - all of fandom, including Bandom, RPF, Adult-ratings, etc). Also, Yuletide will be moving to AO3 this year to accommodate all the newbies.

So, if you haven't yet, you should go check out the archive. It's building slowly. And if you're a writer looking for a place to archive, in a place that wants to keep it safe from take-downs and C&D letters and busybody parents who think sex in fic is of the devil, then let me know.

ETA: Sorry, sleeping East Coasters. Taken! But do check out the archive, it's pretty cool.
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lizardbeth: (Kara happy)
( Oct. 6th, 2009 08:47 am)
First, yesterday, I posted fic! Fic which has been sitting around on my computer at 80% finished (like most of my WIPs) for MONTHS. ETA: for my non-SPN friends, this fic is basically 100% BSG-Verse with an OFC. People who know SPN will know who she is, but Sam doesn't and you meet her through his eyes.

Second, that helped me make good progress on Ariadne and I'm going to do some more today.

Third, I heard the new 30 Seconds to Mars single this morning! (official release for the single is next week - the album is due in... Nov, IIRC)

Fourth, I've been uploading the first two stories to Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction archive run by the OTW, now that I grabbed a "OMG MY GEOCITIES SITE IS CLOSING, GIMME A HOME" invite. It's still in closed beta testing, but it's already WAY AWESOMER than ff.net. I was a bit confuzzled for that first minute when I looked at the interface, but then I tried it and it's really easy. I can totally see where they're gonna need "tag wranglers" because that's gonna get out of hand in about a heartbeat.

(I LOVE LOVE LOVE in the TOS where they can't be responsible for "bad spelling you may run across." *dies* )

Anyway, I am (unsurprisingly) Lizardbeth over there.
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