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farlaWell, another year ends.
I...do not think things are going well, on the whole. Whether or not individual things are eventually fixed, the fact they've happened and kept happening without anyone able to deal with them properly...I feel we're kind of doomed. Thinking about it doesn't make it better so I try not to, honestly.
I'm glad about Tumblr shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot, because now finally people understand all at once how transitory the content is and are backing it up all at once, but I'm disturbed by the fact this seems like it's happening everywhere on the internet at once. It's bad enough we're in a cycle of sites growing and being destroyed and mass exoduses to new places, but it looks like we're on the verge of the sites wrecking themselves faster than new ones appear.
I've been crossposting my stuff to Wattpad. (Super depressing, incidentally - there's actually an active community who'll PM you and stuff, and there's even events they run, but no one will actually comment on fic. The site's godawful, though, so maybe it's a mercy that there's nothing on there you'd want.) I started because I was hoping that Blaze/Hybrid would try harassing me over there and have less time to harass people and kept going mostly because I felt I might as well have an extra backup of everything, and I started transferring my old fic over to AOOOOOO as well, because they let you backdate so I only have to feel agonizing shame at my old work instead of combusting at the idea of it being on the front page.
Going through my old stuff's been pretty melancholy too. I was just throwing out random ideas. They weren't anything super clever or anything, and so it's sort of shocking to see that it's been two decades and there were so many things to explore from the very start, and...people didn't, largely. The same stuff gets written again and again instead.
I guess my resolution is to write more because fandom won't pick up the slack. And hey, I finished a chapter right in advance of January. Now I'm about halfway through Another Verse.
A positive thing, I've started reading translated Chinese webfiction, which apparently gets super meta. So instead of the regular gamerfic style of overpowered character ends up in a universe, the character isn't the intended protagonist but is the main villain, or they're not even the main villain but some speedbump, and they derail the plot but start struggling because it's easy to know what to do when you've already read the book but now you're in a scene that never happened. Got into it by the un-meta Mo Dao Zu Shi, which is great because the main character is a sweet, self-sacrificing necromancer. Haven't managed to run into more empathy-powered necromancers but given that story's pretty popular, even if there's no others yet there should be some eventually.
I...do not think things are going well, on the whole. Whether or not individual things are eventually fixed, the fact they've happened and kept happening without anyone able to deal with them properly...I feel we're kind of doomed. Thinking about it doesn't make it better so I try not to, honestly.
I'm glad about Tumblr shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot, because now finally people understand all at once how transitory the content is and are backing it up all at once, but I'm disturbed by the fact this seems like it's happening everywhere on the internet at once. It's bad enough we're in a cycle of sites growing and being destroyed and mass exoduses to new places, but it looks like we're on the verge of the sites wrecking themselves faster than new ones appear.
I've been crossposting my stuff to Wattpad. (Super depressing, incidentally - there's actually an active community who'll PM you and stuff, and there's even events they run, but no one will actually comment on fic. The site's godawful, though, so maybe it's a mercy that there's nothing on there you'd want.) I started because I was hoping that Blaze/Hybrid would try harassing me over there and have less time to harass people and kept going mostly because I felt I might as well have an extra backup of everything, and I started transferring my old fic over to AOOOOOO as well, because they let you backdate so I only have to feel agonizing shame at my old work instead of combusting at the idea of it being on the front page.
Going through my old stuff's been pretty melancholy too. I was just throwing out random ideas. They weren't anything super clever or anything, and so it's sort of shocking to see that it's been two decades and there were so many things to explore from the very start, and...people didn't, largely. The same stuff gets written again and again instead.
I guess my resolution is to write more because fandom won't pick up the slack. And hey, I finished a chapter right in advance of January. Now I'm about halfway through Another Verse.
A positive thing, I've started reading translated Chinese webfiction, which apparently gets super meta. So instead of the regular gamerfic style of overpowered character ends up in a universe, the character isn't the intended protagonist but is the main villain, or they're not even the main villain but some speedbump, and they derail the plot but start struggling because it's easy to know what to do when you've already read the book but now you're in a scene that never happened. Got into it by the un-meta Mo Dao Zu Shi, which is great because the main character is a sweet, self-sacrificing necromancer. Haven't managed to run into more empathy-powered necromancers but given that story's pretty popular, even if there's no others yet there should be some eventually.
