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AO3: Quick note
Nov. 19th, 2009 05:55 pmSo, I've got myself an account on Archive of Our Own as Selenay. Right now, I'm slowly copying my Doctor Who and miscellaneous fiction over (OMG, the upload interface is lovely) and then I'll think about whether to copy everything else over.
I'm slightly embarrassed to, because I know that the older stuff is not great and I don't feel that it represents what I'm capable of now. Although some may argue that I haven't actually improved at all for the last few years ;-)
The reason that I'm conflicted is that one of the goals of the entire Organisation for Transformative Works move is to ensure that, if an author goes off-line for some reason, their work is preserved if they want it to be. At the moment, if I died tomorrow then my website would go off-line in a couple months. Most of the fiction is mirrored in the major archives for the relevant fandoms, but I know that the Buffy stuff isn't and one thing we've all learned over the last few years is how easily even those major archives can disappear.
Hell, an archive disappearing is the reason I built my website in the first place!
So, while I'd quite like to not transfer everything over and I'm slightly embarrassed by some of it, I suspect that I will be gradually copying everything. There's just rather a lot of it so it may take quite a while.
I'm slightly embarrassed to, because I know that the older stuff is not great and I don't feel that it represents what I'm capable of now. Although some may argue that I haven't actually improved at all for the last few years ;-)
The reason that I'm conflicted is that one of the goals of the entire Organisation for Transformative Works move is to ensure that, if an author goes off-line for some reason, their work is preserved if they want it to be. At the moment, if I died tomorrow then my website would go off-line in a couple months. Most of the fiction is mirrored in the major archives for the relevant fandoms, but I know that the Buffy stuff isn't and one thing we've all learned over the last few years is how easily even those major archives can disappear.
Hell, an archive disappearing is the reason I built my website in the first place!
So, while I'd quite like to not transfer everything over and I'm slightly embarrassed by some of it, I suspect that I will be gradually copying everything. There's just rather a lot of it so it may take quite a while.
