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 Then my subsequent fics superceded their ratings (bodily fluids involved, you see), and I hadn't posted there in yonks.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

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Viki, in ATBT everything has " " between lines of text

[anehan]

And I've seen several reviews that find the fic "confusing", which stuns me. I mean, it's crackfic.

I think it's because it's a crackfic that they find it confusing. I mean, if they don't catch the jokes and the references (which propably is difficult if they haven't read that much fic or if they are so young that they don't really catch what's so funny in all those clichés you make fun of) the fic is probably going to seem rather weird. Which is what makes it such a hilarious one, I think. They've got to understand the jokes or otherwise it seems like you, the author, were on... well... on crack when you wrote it. :-)

[perseph.livejournal.com]

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?

Oh my. I absolute loved your crack!fic, and I laughed my ass off, but I am seriously scared now.

Then again, I shouldn't be so surprised that someone out there would actually wish for such a thing, given all the wonders on ff.net.

Off to search out the reveiws on FA now. They sound hillarious.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

i hand code everything on my personal pages, as well as a few sites i deal with. it is getting impossible hard to deal with these days. sometime i will give in and get dreamweaver. [*le sigh*]

and here in nz, because of the time difference (and the fact that we aren't allowed to get it before the brits), our hp is available at 11.01 am on a saturday. [*is smug*] i'll be at dymocks, where i have pre-ordered and where cute little children will be dressed in hp!costumes.

and fortunately for me, most of my colleagues are involved in the arts, so they don't bat much of an eye at my odd habits. not that most of them know that harry is doing draco in most of my reading/writing, but some do (and some have become converts. [*evil laugh*]

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Totally with you on the HBP uncertainty - just trying to decide whether to order it on Amazon (but will it arrive on Saturday, she frets), or buy it in town next day.

My family know I'm embarrassingly into Harry Potter, but they have no idea quite how embarrassing; a few friends are keen-ish, don't know anyone in RL (apart from my son) who's into it to the same extent. I did have a thought about going down at midnight but that would raise awkward questions..plus I'd start reading it and get no sleep.

Be interesting to see if I knew anyone who turned up, though.

good job we've got a fic support group.

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

so, were you kidding with that Veela!rentboy!crossdressing!vampire!Draco fic? because toying with a fangirl's bad taste is not kind!
I would beta, cheerlead, so read something like that. Darn.

:D

...and we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

You only heard this song ONCE in the 70's? And not again until two weeks ago?

This song helped define my teenagehood. Sogoodsogood.

Oh, it's cold and lonely in the deep, dark, night...I can see Paradise by the dashboard light...

[djin7.livejournal.com]

It doesn't really qualify, but the last FQF story I did was inspired entirely by the Meatloaf album Bat Out Of Hell. *g*
not a songfic btw.
If you want to read it, it's called For Crying Out Loud. It's Snarry, though. Cheers!

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was the Meatloaf one! I had it remembered as 'Heaven'.. I haven't listened to that album in years. Yes, it is crack! - I used to think of it as camp but that's entirely the wrong word.

psst - I have just bought Dreamweaver and I just did a course on it. Shame I'm dreadful at icons really.

[mereol.livejournal.com]

*loves paradise by the dashboard light*...the ultimate in wedding reception songs. i think this song actually started american line dancing.

[mayflo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I just know about this new site of yours!! (Haven't been around for quite a bit, I see.)

*goes to look*
OMG!! Boyd!!! *squeee*
*thud*

*GAH* What do I see there!! My sketches!! And they look darn crappy ;_;

I still owe you one. I haven't forgotten it!! It's in the colouring process!

Oh, btw, if you need a hand in your web site design, please consider me? Or can I give you one as a gift? (or something :P)