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@aurorapillar @o0phylyra0o
Inspired by this meme
What’s your favorite thing about your writing?
I have characterization down pat
My dialogue is impeccable
The way I describe settings makes you feel like you’re really there
My plots are amazing
I smile when I reread my writing
My use of symbolism is unmatched
Something else (tell us in the tags)
If you write you’re legally obligated to answer this sorry I actually do make the rules and this is one of them
(PS if you say it out loud it’s even better)
Anything Else?
Alberu (Reading a list of Cale’s crimes): Arson, theft, destruction of at least 4 castles, treason, damage of property, war crimes….is there anything else I should know about?
Cale: No
Raon: Oh! We also destroyed an Island so now there are only 14 in Hais!
Alberu: *dumbfound*
Cale: Not the time Raon.
Don’t ever forget, we weren’t even 100 chapters in before this punk blew-up an island. There was no backing up after that.
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Cale being "the Weak One"
Cale among his group being like:
Also Cale:
lcfweek has started, let’s gooo
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My partner: Takes me to a beautiful beach at sunset with his family.
Me: "Look! Algae mustache!"
Can't take a phychologist anywhere nice.
Try “psychologist” instead. Spelling counts people…learn how or look it up in the dictionary for a change
Hi there, @mac-3-impact !
A phycologist (with an H) is someone who studies algae.
I am a phycologist (with an H) because I study algae. That's why me putting algae on my face is the joke!
Glad to be part of your learning journey today.
Lots of Reddit threads on FFN recently having trouble.
Last May there were posts about FFN being abandoned. Anyone have links to those?
Sometime last year there was someone on tumblr dot come going “I’ve seen this before, folks, FFN is going down”, but I think it’s been nearly a year since that
so FFN could have been abandoned for two years at this point, as long as they paid for hosting and domain name in big enough lumps, and it'll go down in a dramatic fireball when one of those prepayments runs out
The official twitter account went pretty abruptly silent a year ago, huh
The fun thing is that at least for me, the tweets that both FFN and FictionPress list on their front page have timestamps that are like “10h ago”, but if you look actually through their twitter thread, those are actually from January 2021. I don’t know if the thing is actually actively dying, but it certainly isn’t very alive right now.
(As always: Always make sure you have a local backup of all your fanfics. You never know what might happen, to this or indeed any other fanfic site.)
I just hope that if it’s dying, the people in charge make sure to contact ArchiveOfOurOwn staff before it goes under, so that they can perform a mass fanfic rescue. I’m sure there are already plans drawn up for that eventuality, as ambitious as it would be.
Fanfictiondownloader.net will download any story from fanfiction.net into whatever format you like (PDF, epub, mobi, rtf, and several others). It won’t be an online archive available to fandom as a whole, but it means you can at least keep a personal copy for yourself.
I recommend doing this for any fic you like on ff.net.
Just in case.
As a Fandom Old, I can tell you that it really really sucks when an archive just disappears and you can’t find your favorite fic anywhere else.
So I know someone who’s trying to perform the fanfic rescue flightfoot is talking about.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE due to the way ff.net is coded. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE SAVED BY HAND. Which means actively retyping it. Word by word.
IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST WITH THE PRESERVATION OF FANFICTION HISTORY, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT.
Pick a fandom. Any fandom. I’d honestly recommend starting with the ones with very small amounts of fic because those are most at risk for complete fandom loss. Start saving. Do it by screenshots, if you have to. Do it comprehensively—start on the last page and save every. Single. One. Make sure you include the header and any author’s notes. EDIT NOTHING, ONLY DOCUMENT. Yes, if that means someone misspelled something or you spot a misnamed character, you need to keep that error. If you can form a “network” with friends to save all of a fandom’s works, DO IT.
Do not skip any fics. We are not the arbiters of what “should” be saved. If you can get access to the forums in any way, save whatever you can access. I know some of that has been saved by the Wayback Machine, but not all. I can already tell you research into My Immortal has been rendered uncompleteable by the loss of the forums. That’s going to be true for ALL fics. Save whatever you can reach.
I strongly recommend using the following format for whatever you save, so it can be indexed later: fandom_fictitle_author_datefirstposted.fileextension. So for example (I’m making this fic up for demonstration purposes, don’t bother looking for it), naruto_blessing_ichigo98_07192009 would be Blessing, by ichigo98, posted in the Naruto fandom on 19 July 2009. This provides all the information needed to see if a fic has been cross posted to the AO3, and to run a search engine to see if it’s archived elsewhere.
We may not be able to save it all, but we need to save as much as possible. I can start a Google spreadsheet or something if people want to have a database to keep from getting the same three fandoms over and over.
If we’re going to rescue it, THE TIME IS NOW.
… dear heavens, do not retype by hand. Disable JavaScript in your browser, reload, and copy/paste. Fix formatting and move on.
Although I’m heartbroken that the fanfic downloader doesn’t work with FFN’s new validation system, we’re not *quite* reduced to hand typing.
And of course if you’re published on FFN please, please, PLEASE crosspost elsewhere.
Indeed! You can also save each chapter as an HTML file (file, save page as, choose HTML).
If you want to download the whole fic in one go, I recommend fichub.net. It allows for EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and zipped HTML. I tried it yesterday (2022/09/20) and it worked for me.
https://fichub.net/
Pros and Cons of making things
Pro: Thing
Con: Make
you summed up the struggle of all creators ever so nicely
Hello,
LCFWeek2022 is going to run starting the fourth week of October (16-22)!
There are two prompts a day, but you can also choose neither. Do what you want.
Any type of media is acceptable; you can write a fic, make fanart, make a playlist, etc. Fanfictions on archive of our own can be added to a collection we will put together.
The only major rule is that you stick to only platonic relationships for this. No shipping content. This week is in appreciation of the familial/platonic relationships of characters.
Please tag your entries with #lcfweek
Questions can be asked to TheSilverHunt3r on Twitter/Tumblr, or auroracode/aurorapillar, and phylyra/o0phylyra0o on Tumblr.
Prompts:
Day 1
Word: Bob
Quote: “The most dangerous spot is also the safest. That is theoretically true, but it’s difficult to put into practice” ― Anonymous
Day 2
Word: Work
Quote: “There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives” ― Scott Adams
Day 3
Word: Strength
Quote: “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
Day 4
Word: Grief
Quote: “May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift
Day 5
Word: Protection
Quote: “Do you know when is the best time to chicken out and go home? Never.” —Nakahara Chuuya, Bungou Stray Dogs
Day 6
Word: Reminiscence
Quote: “We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us” —Andrew Ryan
Day 7
Word: Routine/Habit
Quote: “Humanity? Don’t be silly. I know. It’s knocking down your fellow men for the sake of your own happiness” —Osamu Dazai, Bungou Stray Dogs
Oh, what’s this? 👀 lcfweek even tho we completely forgot to do it until now? Yes. Yes it is. More details to follow soon.
When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature:
Short story: under 7,500
Novelette: between 7,500 and 17,500
Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000
Novel: over 40,000
Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free. If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.
actually @ every fanfiction writer whether you wrote something that got thousands of reblogs and comments and became a staple in your fandom, or you wrote one fic and deleted it, or you write mutilchaptered fics that never get a final update, or write short fics, or long fics, or used to write and now you don’t, or you deleted/orphaned your works, or you only share with friends:
thank you.
sharing your writing is hard. and sometimes it’s thankless. sometimes it’s such a negative experience that I wonder how anyone does it at all. but you are needed; you are wanted. whether or not we properly acknowledge it, you are a vital part of fandom culture. thanks for sharing.
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