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Hola!

This is the quick-and-dirty version of the intro-to ratherastory. Before I had a bunch of "sticky posts" on my LJ page, but by the end there were five of them and they were becoming a serious clutter issue.

In the interests of easier navigation, I am therefore putting the links to those posts all in this post AND in the sidebar of my LiveJournal (along with a bunch of other links you might find of interest, since you've made your way here already).

Intro to Ratherastory

Master List of Fanfiction I (Supernatural & Supernatural RPF)

Master List of Fanfiction II (Other Fandoms & Podfic)

Master Post of Writing Projects

Addendum:

Recent changes on LiveJournal are making it increasingly inhospitable for fanfiction. While I plan on continuing to crosspost here for the foreseeable future, there may come a time when I move permanently. Here are the other places on the Internet you can find me and/or my fic:

Dreamwidth: ratherastory

Archive of Our Own: ratherastory

Twitter: Follow @ratherastory

Tumblr: ratherastory

Someone asked me the other day if there was any podfic of my stories. The answer is yes! It didn't occur to me before, but it does now, that it's actually kind of difficult to find. So I'm going to make a list in this post and link to it in my sidebar, that way if people are looking for art/podfic that was based off my fic, they'll be able to find it easily.

( Podfic )

( Artwork )

Making It Work

( Fanmixes and Other Media )

( Translations )

Hey everyone!

The lovely and talented and extraordinary harrigan took my very sad and empty Delicious and made of it a THING OF WONDER. I do not exaggerate!

Check it out: ratherastory_fic.

The stories are tagged thus:

-by size
-by time of posting
-by title
-by fandom
-by applicable season (and/or pre-series and post-series)
-by genre
-by character (for some of the more minor characters)
-by type of h/c and the character involved
-by keyword, for some fics that specifically need them (like amulet fix-its, etc.)
-by challenge

I will be going through the account again, because harrigan has been heroic enough already, and adding/modifying as the need arises.

First off, I updated the Fusion Master Post with a list of all the stories in chronological order as well as the order in which they were written, so now people can decide in which order they'd rather read them.

Onto the rest of the post!

Spurred by boredom, procrastination, and an ill-advised half-hour of lurking on the anon meme a day or so ago, I decided to re-vamp my Master List. It was getting overly long anyway, so it was due for an overhaul.

First off, I split it off into two posts. The first post is all SPN, all the time, and SPN RPF/S. The second post contains all my podfic and all the fic from my other fandoms, few as they are right now.

That being said, I'm not sure if I've got this down to a science yet. I still have my fic sorted primarily by length, and while it makes sense to me, I'm not sure it does for anyone else. Also, while my lists currently consist of the title, summary and posting date of the story, I wonder if many readers aren't scanning the list and wondering how the hell they can tell if a fic is gen or slash or het or whatever without clicking and reading the header of the story itself (although 90% of my SPN fic is gen, I just counted while I was working).

In short, who feels like helping me make a better, more user-friendly Master List? I have even made a handy poll for those of you who only want to click and not type. ;)


[Poll #1777113]

Dear flist, can I ask a quick favour?

I am having a completely random and trivial bout of wibbling over how my Master List of fic is organized. Specifically, I'm wondering if that post has become too big and unwieldy -even with the handy html that takes you from section to section- and if I should split it into two or something. My concern is that splitting it might actually make things worse in terms of accessibility.

So if you have half a second, would you mind taking a look and then making with the clicky in this handy-dandy poll?

Thank you!


[Poll #1726303]

It has occurred to me that a few people in the fandom have had the fantastic idea of recc'ing fics. The problem for me, of course, is that I keep skipping back and forth, trying to find those awesome stories again.

So I thought to myself: "Self, why don't you create your own list of recs for easy referencing?" I will be poaching shamelessly from all the communities and writers I like, and including them here. I haven't quite decided how I'm going to organize them, but since I haven't posted any at all yet I figure I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Incidentally, if you're looking for a master list of my stories (there aren't that many now, but with any luck I'll remedy that eventually), you can find it here.

This post will have a list of recs in it (behind a convenient LJ-cut), but I also welcome all recs from all comers in the comments. Please please please, I am always starved for good fiction. I don't insist on a format, but it would be super helpful if you could make your rec follow something like this:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author or artist's name:</b> <b>Summary/Why We Should Read This:</b> <b>Link to fanwork:</b>

If I end up really liking a rec from the comments, it'll go into the main list.

( Recs behind the cut! )

This is an attempt at a sanity-saving measure for myself. Those of you who are familiar with this LJ know that I have no self-control whatsoever and thus tend to overcommit myself to fic. So now I've created a list of writing projects so I can keep on top of my deadlines and such.

( List behind the cut )

I am following the example of many authors before me and providing a master list of all my fiction, for easy access, so that people don't have to go scrolling all over the place in my LJ.

( Technical stuff about how the list is organized )

( Tags )


( Blanket Permission )

( Master List Of Stories Behind the Cut )