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Not As Simple As I'd Thought
Jan. 17th, 2019 11:15 amSo, shutting the doors on my LJ isn't quite as simple and easy as I'd thought it would be. Yeah, unfriending a long f-list was tedious, but that doesn't compare to rebuilding my old Masterlist.
Let me explain. Back in the days before AO3, when everything was posted on my LJ, I kept a very detailed and complete Masterlist (it's the second entry on my journal right now). I was rather proud of it, how well it was organized, how complete it was. It wasn't just story links, it had summaries and word counts and dates of publication, divided by type (episode tags, one-shots, series, etc.).
It's also filled with links to the LJ entries.
Which are now no longer accessible, since I've completely locked my LJ.
Shit.
Now, if I'd had posted everything I'd ever written onto AO3, this wouldn't be a problem. But only the "major" stories are on the archive. The porn (oh, so much porn) one-shots, the little offhand fics and ficlets and drabbles, the weirdness that had been inspired by some picture or newspaper article, none of those are on AO3 and I can't imagine investing the hours I'd need to get them up there. The import function is too messy and would require more time that simply posting them as new. Even the thought of the lack of proper tags and formatting makes me twitchy.
So, the only alternative I see is manually changing the links on the Masterlist, which will be tedious but doable. I don't see a lot of people that will be interested in my White Collar backlist, so it's not really an urgent task. I can do it a month at a time, an hour here and there and I'll eventually finish it.
(The thought does occur that I might be spending as much time re-linking my Masterlist to DW as I would just posting those fics to AO3. Perhaps I should run a time to see if one is faster than the other).
There's just so much fic.
Sigh.
Let me explain. Back in the days before AO3, when everything was posted on my LJ, I kept a very detailed and complete Masterlist (it's the second entry on my journal right now). I was rather proud of it, how well it was organized, how complete it was. It wasn't just story links, it had summaries and word counts and dates of publication, divided by type (episode tags, one-shots, series, etc.).
It's also filled with links to the LJ entries.
Which are now no longer accessible, since I've completely locked my LJ.
Shit.
Now, if I'd had posted everything I'd ever written onto AO3, this wouldn't be a problem. But only the "major" stories are on the archive. The porn (oh, so much porn) one-shots, the little offhand fics and ficlets and drabbles, the weirdness that had been inspired by some picture or newspaper article, none of those are on AO3 and I can't imagine investing the hours I'd need to get them up there. The import function is too messy and would require more time that simply posting them as new. Even the thought of the lack of proper tags and formatting makes me twitchy.
So, the only alternative I see is manually changing the links on the Masterlist, which will be tedious but doable. I don't see a lot of people that will be interested in my White Collar backlist, so it's not really an urgent task. I can do it a month at a time, an hour here and there and I'll eventually finish it.
(The thought does occur that I might be spending as much time re-linking my Masterlist to DW as I would just posting those fics to AO3. Perhaps I should run a time to see if one is faster than the other).
There's just so much fic.
Sigh.
