Do you love me? Will you love me forever?

[geoviki]

With the erratic nature of our archives - Skyehawke's problems and Arithmancy's before that - I decided I'd better archive my stuff in two places just to beat the odds. So I spent the morning tarting up my web site and posting all my fics there:

Geoviki's web page

I still need to address the squished image on the home page, but as a bonus, you can access all the art and images made for my fics.

I don't have a program to autogenerate web pages; instead, I directly code most of it with tags the hard way. This is akin to hand-whittling a Buick and expecting to drive it to Texas.

Speaking of archives (God, what an elegant segue!), I've now posted that crack!fic parody at 1) Pornish Pixies, which is the forum I had in mind when I wrote it 2) my LJ 3) Skyehawke, and 4) Fiction Alley (FA). (What a pimp I've turned out to be).

When I first emerged from obscurity, FA was my archive of choice, mostly because it was the only one I was really aware of. I posted my first 3 fics there. Then my subsequent fics superceded their ratings (bodily fluids involved, you see), and I hadn't posted there in yonks. So I thought, why not? I thought there might be a 50/50 chance they wouldn't accept it - the parody does include some pretty...odd..things. But they did. Still, now that I'm getting comments, I'm noticing quite a different audience than two years ago. The fic's rated R there (who the hell knows what to rate this stuff, you know what I'm saying?). But a large proportion of feedback seems to be from underage readers; or at least, some squeeful, smiley-prolific members. And I've seen several reviews that find the fic "confusing", which stuns me. I mean, it's crackfic. Either you get the joke or you don't. A few try to praise the characterization (which is obviously OOC in spades), and one suggested I try to write it "straight". So, ah, who out there in LJ-land wants to beta my next Veela!rentboy!crossdressing!vampire!Draco fic, hmmmm?

So what are your experiences with various archives?

Okay, put me in the column of "dreading HBP", for awkward reasons. Some of my RL friends know I like HP, but they don't know details why. So they mention the upcoming book to me, and the conversation grinds to a sand-in-the-gears stop when I inwardly want to enthuse about my writing, but can't, for the obvious reasons. Do I go to the midnight party at the bookstore? Who knows.

I've decided to upload my "current music" to YSI.com, where the link will be active for a week. This entry's song was something I heard one single time when it first came out in the 70's and not again until about 2 weeks ago. I think it would make a great fic! What a funny plot. ("We were barely seventeen, and we were barely dressed")

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - het warning - first-time, commitment-phobia, baseball/sex metaphors, crack!song

Comments

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I'm the only one I know who remembers this, but I learned to line dance in 1964 from my sister and her friends (and in the way of those things, I can still remember the steps to that particular dance!) Perhaps it was a Detroit/Motown thing....

[mereol.livejournal.com]

well as i was just a twinkle in my daddy's eye in 1964 (actually no, but one of the previous four siblings before me must have been) i can only agree with you that it must be a detroit/motown thing.

...and to bring things full circle to the above (age-reference wise), there's a cute little intern in my office who was musing earlier how she could remember when she got her first cell phone. she said it all waxing nostalgic like "those were the days"..... after resiting the urge to choke the ever lovin' snot out of her (she is a cute little thing after all) i sat back and reflected. i can remember the 8 track sterro in my mom's old ford ltd. ah, now THOSE were the days.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

And I can remember the first car I got that had FM radio, not just AM...

8 track was just...odd. Having the track cut out in mid song was never going to be a keeper for long.

[mereol.livejournal.com]

tell me, what was your first car? mine was a nissan sentra hand me down from my sister. it was shit brown with vinyl seats, wicked hot in the southern sun....no a/c but it had a tape deck, four wheels and a seat. i was stylin'.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

My first car was an off-white, 1967 Dodge Dart, with the manual gear shift on the steering column, that cost me all of $325. I drove that car from Michigan to California and many, many points in between for a couple of years. I had a tape deck added. It was fairly reliable, although I did once lose the brakes coming down from Bryce Canyon and had a leaky radiator driving through Nevada in June.