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Okay, has everyone seen this? From this post:

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Bold face was in the original text. I am keeping my fingers crossed, but am not holding out much hope.

So here's the thing. I am already posting all my stories on AO3. I am seriously considering making that my primary posting site, and only using LJ and DW as back-ups for people who are following me. So I'd post there, link back here with comments disabled, and leave it at that.

If I were to do that, would you guys still be interested in reading? Here, have a poll to make things easier:

[Poll #1804993]

For those who are interested, I am at AO3 under ratherastory

I'm also on Dreamwidth at 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

My apologies to those of you who have the misfortune of being subscribed to me at AO3, I know you got spammed over the last few days as I got caught up on backing up my work.

The good news is that I'm pretty much done. I have one multi-chapter story that I still haven't backed up, but everything else is there now, so no more spam! Yay!

For those of you who didn't know that I have found yet another place to crosspost to, well, now you know. I can be found here: ratherastory.

I actually really like the AO3 format. LJ will always be my first home and my primary posting grounds, but AO3 allows me to embed images and links much the same way (unlike fanfiction.net), and I'm slowly getting used to how it works over there. There are things I still don't understand (like, what the heck does 'Orphan my works' even mean? It sounds like I'm ordering a hit on myself, which is mildly terrifying), but I'm working my way through it.

I am also pretty much caught up on all the comments & feedback that had been piling up in various places, which is definitely good. I kind of got swamped there for a while.

I am still fighting to the death with my Big Bang. I am at that point where I hate everything about the fic and am convinced it sucks. This happens pretty much with every long piece of work I have ever written, and I think it's not uncommon among writers and artists anyway. ;)

I have a bunch of medium-to-big writing projects due fairly soon. It's weird, but I've gotten a little stuck on writing long things lately. All the long fic I've posted was written a few months ago and simply finished and edited recently. The longest fic I've managed lately is maybe 3 or 4k. I don't know, it hasn't been a great couple of months, writing-wise. Hopefully things will pick up and I'll start feeling excited again about the whole writing thing. Right now everything I write feels like it's utter shit. Feh.

I should be writing, but last night I spent a whole bunch of time updating my AO3 account instead. I'm not finished, but I got all my H50, Leverage and White Collar fic up, and both my SPN 'verses.

If you're at all interested, I can be found at ratherastory.

With any luck I'll have the other eighty or so stories up in the next little while, and now that will make yet another place to crosspost to. :P

I discovered, though, that AO3 lets me post images, so that means all my Big Bangs and suchlike can be posted there too with illustrations, unlike fanfiction.net. \o/

Which reminds me, I should go back up my LJ to DW again. It's been a while.

Everyone else is doing it, right?

I'm at ratherastory and fandoms in the immediate queue include Supernatural, Hawaii Five-0, and Leverage.

Although, it may take a while to catch up on all the fic I've posted in the past...

And to do this in your own LJ:

I'm at <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR USERNAME"><img alt="favicon" border="0" src="http://archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico" /></a><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR USERNAME"><strong>YOUR USERNAME</strong></a> and fandoms in the immediate queue include YOUR FANDOMS!