AO3: Quick note
Nov. 19th, 2009 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo, 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.
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Date: 2009-11-19 10:45 pm (UTC)I'm sort of having the same thing with whether to archive my older stuff there. At the moment I'm fixing fic up as I repost it, but even some of my older DW fic (never mind my excruciating HP of buffy stuff) doesn't so much need to the odd typos fixed or comma moved so much as it needs completely rewritten from scratch. At which point it's not really the same fic anymore.
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Date: 2009-11-19 10:57 pm (UTC)...I can so obviously see why. It's TERRIBLE!!!
My other thought is, will anyone really ever be interested in those little pieces of fluff that I dashed off? At the time, on mailing lists, at the height of the fandom, they would have been read, but then instantly forgotton. I don't think anyone would read them now. Especially not when they are BadFic!
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Date: 2009-11-20 02:57 pm (UTC)I've got no interest in re-writing my oldest, crappiest stuff because I've left the fandom. So I'm conflicted. I'd really like to forget that I wrote some of it!
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:00 pm (UTC)Of course, there is stuff that other people wrote and I adored years ago but now can't read because it's actually not that good. Urf. That's actually kind of depressing - my taste appears to have changed a lot.
Perhaps I'll copy the Stargate stuff over and one or two of the less execrable Buff fics and pray that everyone forgets the rest.
It's such a dilemma.