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Feb. 14th, 2018 21:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldabeOne of my favorite things about posting fic on blogging platforms is the fact that it encouraged a culture of commenting and engagement you just can't find on AO3 or tumblr or even twitter. Livejournal pre-dated things like "like" and "kudos" buttons and I havne't been subtle about missing the culture of conversation.
That said, you know what LJ/blogging platforms were terrible at? Archiving. I've been living a low-scale panic for a few years now about all the fic that is slowly disappearing off livejournal for years, and handling it by....well, mostly by ignoring it. So I finally opened some tabs of a few fanfic authors I don't think have their stuff cross-posted to AO3 (where I IRRATIONALLY believe that the authors are less likely to take it down??) and started trying to save stuff. It's so hard! I have to decide if I want to copy/paste into word documents or just use Evernote, which is faster but just as prone to being taken down because it's based on the ~internet. And there are formatting preservation questions I just don't have the energy to address. Mostly, though? It's just slow. So very slow.
AND THEN OF COURE I end up going through the comments sections and reading these long paragraphs of conversation between the readers and the writers, exploring ideas and chatting away and then I get really emotional. I was never the most prolific (or particularly good) person at writing fic and meta, but I miss chatting away in the comments of fics by my favorite authors. I wish I had a good idea of a straightforward way to document the comments as well as the fics. They are just as much a part of fandom culture and history, so much of which which is being lost over time.
That said, you know what LJ/blogging platforms were terrible at? Archiving. I've been living a low-scale panic for a few years now about all the fic that is slowly disappearing off livejournal for years, and handling it by....well, mostly by ignoring it. So I finally opened some tabs of a few fanfic authors I don't think have their stuff cross-posted to AO3 (where I IRRATIONALLY believe that the authors are less likely to take it down??) and started trying to save stuff. It's so hard! I have to decide if I want to copy/paste into word documents or just use Evernote, which is faster but just as prone to being taken down because it's based on the ~internet. And there are formatting preservation questions I just don't have the energy to address. Mostly, though? It's just slow. So very slow.
AND THEN OF COURE I end up going through the comments sections and reading these long paragraphs of conversation between the readers and the writers, exploring ideas and chatting away and then I get really emotional. I was never the most prolific (or particularly good) person at writing fic and meta, but I miss chatting away in the comments of fics by my favorite authors. I wish I had a good idea of a straightforward way to document the comments as well as the fics. They are just as much a part of fandom culture and history, so much of which which is being lost over time.
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Date: Feb. 15th, 2018 05:33 (UTC)no subject
Date: Feb. 19th, 2018 03:05 (UTC)For ff.net I've been using ficsave.xyz, which I like because it emails me the fics and then I save them on my phone for my morning commute. :D
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Date: Dec. 30th, 2019 06:10 (UTC)