Catching Up on Fannish Things...

[savageseraph]

Back in 2008, caras_galadhon made me a fic index so that I could find and catalogue my fics. She didn't just give me the code, she actually combed through my LJ and our comms and made the links and entries. My promise was that I would keep the index up to date, which I did a pretty good job of, until 2009. I guess that's not surprising as things were getting a bit toxic in fandom and on my flist at that point. I suppose I pulled back and wrote mostly when various exchanges cropped up to motivate me.

I've decided that it's about fucking time for me to reclaim my space here.

So I just spent a chunk of my afternoon linking up 24 fics from 2009 (those posted to my LJ in 2010) and 2010 and my one fic posted in 2012 in my index. I added fandoms (which always makes me sillyhapy for some reason): Firefly, Grimm, Eastern Promises/James Bond Crossovers, and Percy Jackson/Prophecy Crossovers. I've still got somewhere between 25 and 30 fics I need to get caught up on: all of 2011 and most of 2009. Some of those are fics that were posted to other comms or sites and never posted here, so there might be some fic spam days as I'm consolidated and catching up.

I've also bumped the index so that it's the first post in my LJ. I've been toying with the idea for a time, but I'm not sure that I like it there. It makes it easier for me to find, but I'm not sure that it isn't annoying to hit it first. So since y'all are reading most, what do you think I should do: keep it where it is now, put it back where it was and just leave the wee link on my profile page, or make a small short post about it linking to it that would stay as the first post in my LJ?

I also cross posted 7 fics to my AO3 account. For some reason the importing isn't working properly, and LJ wouldn't let me open two posts to grab the code for them, so I think the AO3 crossposting is going to be LOW on my priority list.

ETA - OMG! I stopped at the end of 2009, so all that fic is already in my index. Just not uploaded to AO3. So all I need to do is collect end of 2010 and all of 2011 fic and I'm caught up. PHEW.

Comments

[wyncatastrophe.livejournal.com]

Okay, you know know I'm not the greatest LJ coder and therefore my suggestions may be unhelpful. However, you have asked for feedback, and here it is:

Your "fic index" is what I'm used to calling a "master list of fic." Regardless of where the posts link to (a previous LJ post, an ffn or AO3 page, etc.), I think the most elegant solution I've seen is linking to it from your LJ page - not from a post, nor from your profile, but by adding it to your links list and putting it at the top, so that it appears (in most styles) just below your default icon. You don't currently have a links list when I access your LJ, but I don't think it would be too cluttered to make use of that feature with a single line, the FIC INDEX or MASTER LIST OF FIC, or whatever else you want to call it. If you're using flexible squares, which I think you might be, then it should look kind of like a subtitle below "savageseraph." This is a much better situation, for example, than what I've currently got going on, a long but still incomplete listing of my fics in various series meandering down my sidebar. Do not go down that road, it will be the doom of your sanity. (You've shown no signs of doing so, I just like to offer dire warnings for no good reason.)

Also - yikes! I am sorry that fandom and LJ were toxic in 2009! That is tragic. Ficcing should be like Crayola: wholesome and non-toxic, but capable of producing surprisingly graphic and/or kinky things, as long as your sister doesn't eat all the red ones.

Typing this has made me realize that I have yet to do anydamnthing (like my infixing?) with my DreamWidth links, and attacking that problem sounds like a good excuse to put off Derrida …

Best of luck with your linking/formatting/organizing of fics!

[zackery-faelan.livejournal.com]

that is crazy scary. i've been posting on this lj since 07? i think and i am afraid to go back more than a month or so, even in search of my old fics and the like. i do not envy you the tedious (but hopefully rewarding) task ahead but i wish you the best of luck! ^_^

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

Late to the party (as usual) but I read people's posts from my f-list, which basically means I never see your journal. Having your fic index as a sticky post at the top wouldn't bother me even if I was in the habit of popping over to your journal, but I think a lot of people who read from their f-list aren't really going to notice. You should do whatever looks and feels right to you.