Meanwhile, at the ranch
Nov. 17th, 2009 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIcon courtesy of embarassing spoiled fannish frustration, as in: new Doctor Who, that's great (and a good special it is, too), new Dexter, nice (review will follow), but why oh why does fate continue to deny me S.W.O.R.D. #1?
*feels like the only person on the planet interested in the main characters who still hasn't been able to get hold of it, which means no ability to squee, discuss, share, ANYTHING*
In other news, I've an account at Archive of Our Own, here. Transferring my fanfiction from FFN isn't that difficult - the interface works really well, and the aesthetics are far more pleasing, plus I can already see the character tags are going to be extremely handy. I started with my Doctor Who, Torchwood, Marvel and Jossverse stuff, will go on with B5. Currently I'm shying away from my Heroes stories; it's so depressing to think of the fannish joy I felt when writing them, and of what became of the show. But I'm still proud of some of them, so I probably will transfer them as well in the end.
Going through my old Buffy and Angel stories, on the other hand, just produces a nostalgic glow. Probably because I was mostly happy with how both shows ended, and the occasional frustrations didn't outweigh the fondness. A month back there was another "which was darker, BtVS or AtS?" discussion which I rergarded with some distant interest, concluding that what people really replied to were in most cases "which do you like better?". As to the former question, I don't think you can answer them for the shows in their entirety, because it did vary from season to season (or even within season, when one thinks of AtS' abrupt tone shift in s2 post Epiphany). As to the later, I loved both shows - still do, for that matter, though I haven't been able to rewatch episodes for quite some time - but looking at my fannish output, I clearly found Angel more inspiring for fanfiction, and Buffy for meta. Which doesn't necessarily mean a preference - by now, it's a tried and true cliché that flawed canon generally inspires more fanfic than canon you're absolutely and completely happy with - but there it is.
Another conclusion from transfering old fanfic to a new archive: death warnings are a fannish etiquette I deeply resent and consider really annoying and stupid, but follow nonetheless.
*feels like the only person on the planet interested in the main characters who still hasn't been able to get hold of it, which means no ability to squee, discuss, share, ANYTHING*
In other news, I've an account at Archive of Our Own, here. Transferring my fanfiction from FFN isn't that difficult - the interface works really well, and the aesthetics are far more pleasing, plus I can already see the character tags are going to be extremely handy. I started with my Doctor Who, Torchwood, Marvel and Jossverse stuff, will go on with B5. Currently I'm shying away from my Heroes stories; it's so depressing to think of the fannish joy I felt when writing them, and of what became of the show. But I'm still proud of some of them, so I probably will transfer them as well in the end.
Going through my old Buffy and Angel stories, on the other hand, just produces a nostalgic glow. Probably because I was mostly happy with how both shows ended, and the occasional frustrations didn't outweigh the fondness. A month back there was another "which was darker, BtVS or AtS?" discussion which I rergarded with some distant interest, concluding that what people really replied to were in most cases "which do you like better?". As to the former question, I don't think you can answer them for the shows in their entirety, because it did vary from season to season (or even within season, when one thinks of AtS' abrupt tone shift in s2 post Epiphany). As to the later, I loved both shows - still do, for that matter, though I haven't been able to rewatch episodes for quite some time - but looking at my fannish output, I clearly found Angel more inspiring for fanfiction, and Buffy for meta. Which doesn't necessarily mean a preference - by now, it's a tried and true cliché that flawed canon generally inspires more fanfic than canon you're absolutely and completely happy with - but there it is.
Another conclusion from transfering old fanfic to a new archive: death warnings are a fannish etiquette I deeply resent and consider really annoying and stupid, but follow nonetheless.
