So the bad is rolling on

[cornerofmadness]

I picked up my book donations for the library and moved my hand past my clip hangers and learned one of them was broken when it slit the back of my hand and thumb for about three inches worth of bleeding flesh.

I get to the laundromat and the washers I like (which were old and dying) were gone (to be replaced) and the front loader didn't wash my clothes. Only the ones on the outside were wet and they were dirtier than when the went in. The middle was dry. OMFG!

I nearly took off the tip of my finger slicing fruit.

I shouldn't be trusted to be an adult.

Speaking of adulting I did nothing to be one today. Sigh.

I was wondering about AO3 though. I have three Buffy stories I put up a few years ago (and forgot about) and for some reason they claim they went up in 2003-2004. Um...that IS when they were written but I wasn't even on A03 until 2010 and I'm not even sure AO3 existed in 2003. Not sure what that's about.

But I was also thinking about my longer fiction. I'm not sure I WILL put it in DW/Lj because it would require so many posts to do it. There are so many storage options these days, it seems unlikely every last one of them would be go bad at once. I don't mind putting the small ones here but does anyone really want 8 posts just to put up a bigger story? I think not.

Here's hoping the pinch hitter does something for me since whoever had my chocolate box request abandoned it. Ah well (this always happens to me in exchanges)

ANd here's a slightly different music meme. I used Aurelio Voltaire this time. I snagged this from tjs_whatnot

1. Are you male or female? The Mechanical Girl
2. Describe yourself. When You're Evil
3. What do people feel when they're around you? Vampire Club
4. How would you describe your previous relationship? See You In Hell
5. Describe your current relationship. The Necropolis of Former Lovers
6. Where would you want to be now? Graveyard Picnic
7. How do you feel about love? The Folly of Love
8. What's your life like? Hell In A Handbasket
9. What would you ask for if you had only one wish? The Uss Make Shit Up
10. Say something wise. Innocent


AND before I could even finish this post my sugar crashed out and I had to get out my sugar pills in spite of eating on my chocolate haul all day

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Did you tell AO3 when you uploaded those stories that the publication date to display was years earlier?

[cornerofmadness]

I didn't even know you could do that (but maybe I found that out and did it but have seen forgotten)

[alexseanchai]

It is a thing you can do, yes, and your having done it and then forgotten is definitely an explanation fits the evidence :)

[cornerofmadness]

Pretty much. I'm so glad my brain is broken

[enemytosleep]

OUCH to the finger.

AO3 I honestly don't know how or why, but I noticed the same shit. I got the account in 2011, but it lists all the original posting dates for all of my old fic. I cannot remember how I uploaded there. I feel like I imported from LJ and FF.net, which would perhaps have given AO3 the information on when it was posted. I Googled it jsut now and didn't find anything useful, though I did find an enlightening rant regarding why readers might care about dating works accurately.

[ysilme]

(sorry, deleted comment was by me, logged in with the wrong account)

About finding fic with older dates on the AO3: sometimes, older fic archives are imported into the AO3, I think they even have a tool or something for it for moderators and such. The idea behind is preserving fanworks which otherwise would be lost because a smaller archive is ending its services or being deleted. I don't know about the details and how it works, but to my knowledge, as much of the original meta info as possible is kept with the importing process, and most likely also the dates. I found that often such fic has tags showing they've been from this or that archive - but only when the importing people set these tags, of course; sometimes also the absence of tags or certain tag-sets can be an indicator of a fic having been imported.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. I didn't know this (someone else suggested it too). And that's a possibility. I think I put a couple of them on AO3 (someone asked me on FFN to move them for a friend who refused to go to FFN) but one I don't remember at all.

I still wish I had some of those I lost here but I wasn't even a member at the time I would have lost the hard drive and all that fiction. Sigh.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah it seems like some COULD have been imported because I was shocked to see Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know on AO3. It's a huge fic and I have no memory of putting it there.

Thanks for the rant because you know to me it IS important when I published it. As I migrate stuff from FFN I put on there the date I originally published it (which also explains why so many of them are Alternative Reality, written before the series ended and got jossed). It would matter when I migrate my ancient FMA stuff too because I gave Roy SO many different histories before we knew about Chris.

[enemytosleep]

Yeah the dating stuff was a fun read. I have my stuff accurately dated simply for my own neurosis, though in some of the comments I saw arguments why some people might not want to or bother to date them. Ultimately I could really give a shit about fanfic, but I did have fun reading the differing opinions. :D

[cornerofmadness]

I didn't read the comments. Yeah at the end of the day it surely doesn't matter other than as you say my own neuroses. But like I said in my case, the date might matter as to the alternative reality-ness of the story (or as I'm seeing in the Buffy fic just how pissed off I was that year about something in canon. just wow....)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"does anyone really want 8 posts just to put up a bigger story?"
8 posts in one day, probably not, but 8 posts over 8 weeks or something, sure, I think.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah I've done it that way too. But given how long FFN has been around and now Ao3 hopefully I won't lose too much of these this time (not to mention saving on multiple devices at this point)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I agree, AO3 in particular seems like a safe bet.

[cornerofmadness]

at least I hope so

[ysilme]

Ouch, all the sympathies for injuries and nuisances!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks so much

[jedibuttercup]

I joined AO3 in ... 2009 or so? Whenever Yuletide moved over. And I definitely checked the box to back-date when I did that. So many fic posts; I was really into the double-drabble format in the early days! I didn't want people to think it was all new stories they maybe hadn't read yet, and there were a lot of them.

It's nice to be able to look back now and know what I wrote when without cross-referencing to other sites! Most of my tagging ends up being for myself these days, too. If it helps other people, great; but if I want to put my finger on my last timetravel fixit or something to see how I did a particular trope before, voila!

[cornerofmadness]

I might have backdated it but honestly I do not remember even putting this on AO3. But definitely now that I'm moving them over, I AM putting in the notes the original pub date because there are so many new fans who would never have seen these 15 years ago.

I tag more for people to find the characters and ships they want and not a whole lot more (am lazy)