potentiality_26

TFW you found a comm that looked interesting but apparently didn't join or bookmark it, and now you can't find it.

(I know I've done this more than once, but the particular comm I'm looking for right now is one specifically for ships with older characters.  Shout if that's familiar to you, I might have found it through someone I'm subscribed to.  I know of a similar comm back on LJ, but this was definitely here on DW)
  

Does anyone who has used this site more regularly than I know if you can make your own posts appear on your reading page as they did on LJ? 

Both there and on tumblr I had a habit of looking at my last post of the day as a kind of bookmark, and I always knew neatly where I'd last left off.  It's not hugely important but it would be nice. 
 

So first there was a panic about how FOSTA/SESTA was going to get fanworks banned (here's the AO3 write up on the subject), and now I see people talking about how Microsoft's new TOS could mean the same thing, and I'm just... so tired right now.

I just looked into alternative email sites to outlook on a whim and I found that pretty much all of them had the same TOS.  Like if you really think you're going to get terminated because of AO3's review messages or because you used "fuck" in an email, I'm not sure there are really any other options.

As far as I can tell, it's just typical corporate base covering, but the paranoia I've seen on tumblr has been pretty incredible.

Have a lot of people here been hearing this stuff?  Are you worried and/or trying to do anything about it?
  

Does anyone who's been here all this while know the logic behind the "you might have missed" emails LJ has started sending out?  The posts aren't from people I'm friends with as far as I can tell, and I have no idea what about them makes LJ think I'm interested.
 

On LJ my "login cookie" keeps disappearing whenever I try to make a comment.  Is that happening to anyone else?

So I've mostly been keeping my Kingsman-related flailing confined to my tumblr- in part because I keep telling myself I need to go back and put links to all the fanfiction I've been writing here too and then not doing that.  But I have to say about the upcoming sequel:

For a while I was trying not to think too much about it.  I was happy about Colin Firth probably being back and everything, but I kept thinking, “What if it’s bad?  What if it’s not bad but stuff I don’t want to happen happens?  Think how rare sequels that are actually good are.”

But today it was like, “There’s gonna be a car chase!  Eggsy’s gonna wear a truly hideous orange jacket!  Elton John is in it!”  And I just can’t be aloof anymore.  It’s finally happened.  I am so excited for this movie.


On the subject of me always forgetting to post links my fanfiction, I'm thinking about revamping my main masterlist.

I have this vision of just putting links to separate by-fandom masterlists in the big one so I won't have to work around a million cuts every time I go to update it anymore.  The problem is that while that will work fine for the fandoms I've written lots of fics for, I feel silly making whole masterlists for fandoms where I only ever wrote one fic.  So I'm thinking maybe I should just do a miscellaneous list for those fandoms- but I worry that it would make the main masterlist less useful for anyone looking at it. 

Any thoughts on what would be more or less accessible?
 

I'm having trouble tagging a work on AO3 and I thought I'd take a survey of the room to see if anyone has strong opinions on the subject.

Put under a cut for The Hobbit spoilers.
Does an LOTR fic that references canon character deaths from The Hobbit require a Major Character Death tag?  Said references aren't the focus of the story, and obviously I'm putting a 'Canonical Character Deaths' tag on it, but I can still make a case for either choice.


What do you guys think?
    

On LJ posts, I sometimes embeded links with a little symbol next to them.  They're just like LJ User links (like potentiality_26), except that instead of the usual LJ symbol it's the AO3 symbol, or one for another website.  Does anyone know how that's achieved?

I'd try to look it up in the FAQ, but as you can see I'm not very good at explaining it and I don't know how I'd even starting looking.
  

I recently finished a draft of a fic and I wrote it very differently than I usually do.  Unless it's a short story- say, less than 2,500 words- and I can think it up and write it in one sitting, I tend to be pretty scattered in the way I'll write said story.  I get scenes or peices of scenes (from many different points in the fic, and usually out of order) in my head, so write them down as they come to me so I don't forget them later, and then I slowly fill in the blanks until it's done.  Sometimes very slowly, because if I get distracted by another idea in the middle it could be weeks or months before I go back to it.  Also, the scenes that I fill in the blanks with tend to be the weaker parts of the story, because I know what needs to happen in them but they're really just there to get me from point A to point B and they lack a certain spark.

With this fic, I didn't let myself.  I hand wrote it from the first scene to the last scene, in order.  There's already some stuff I want to go back and change, which I'll do when I type it up, but what was interesting was how differently I had to think.  I had to go over the scenes that were really clear in my mind over and over again to make sure I wouldn't forget them but I got around to writing them, but the parts in between those scenes were definitely the better for it, because they fit better into the natural flow of the story.  I'm not sure how often I'll be able to do this- given the reasonably limited amount of time I have for fic writing in a given day, I had to go through it pretty fast- but it was a learning experience.  

What about you guys?  Do you write linearly, or do you just write things down as they come to you?  Are there aspects of your writing that you worry might suffer for the way you write?  Have you ever tried writing a story in a completely different way, to see what it's like?
  

Would any of my OUAT friends like to volunteer to let me bounce of ideas off them for a Rumbelle fic?  I have some good character study/introspection stuff already finished, but the prompt I'm writing to more or less requires it to be a futurefic, and I'm having trouble envisioning it.  Anyone want to chat about it with me?