Quick, through the Gate to the Alpha Site!

[ratherastory]

That will only be funny to people who watch StarGate. Anyway.


I love LJ and I am furious beyond words at the [expletive deleted] who attacked it as a cowardly political ploy to thwart the democratic process. Seriously, hackers: screw you sideways with something dull and rusty.

That being said, I do make a point of cross-posting pretty much everything I write. If LJ ever goes down again I will be posting in these alternate locations first, and then coming back here when access returns. I will be updating my links list on my LJ sidebar to reflect this too.

You can find me at the following places:

Fanfiction.net: aka the Pit of Voles. I cross-post everything but my RPF there. I also post under a different handle (my original net handle that I don't use for fic anymore but haven't changed on ff.net). Mousme

AO3: aka Archive of Our Own. I'm at ratherastory

Dreamwidth: ratherastory

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Alas, not that I'm aware of. I know that DW allows you to cross-post TO LiveJournal, but the other way around doesn't exist.

I try to make a point of backing everything up regularly, but I forget a lot, too.

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

I tend to only think about it when LJ is down and when I can't back anything up.

The main thing that just guts me about LJ's vulnerability is all the stories and creative work that aren't found anywhere else... writers who have left fandom, etc. They would just be gone, which is kind of tragic.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I know!

I should start encouraging people to put up their work at AO3, for posterity. That way even if they leave they can "orphan" their work and still have it up for others to read.

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

You should! My first fandom had a single site for almost all the fandom's fic that was a victim of a random attack this year, and the entire site went down. I used to get reviews every week from that site, even years later, and now they're all gone. I wouldn't even have any of those stories anywhere if a friend hadn't backed them all up and asked if she could post them on a different website.

We forget that the Internet is a little like building our house on sand...