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oxfordtweed) wrote2009-03-30 01:23 pm
oxfordtweed) wrote2009-03-30 01:23 pm
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For all my FanFiccers out there!
Most of y'all are from a small collection of the same fandoms, but I want to point you to what has the potential to be the best site ever for archiving your fic. Of course, we have the wonderfully awesome Evidence Room for our Hot Fuzz, the Collator's Den for LoM, and even A Teaspoon and an Open Mind for the WhoFic out there.
And those are perfect, wonderful site. If you only write for one fandom. But even I dabble outside of my main playground every now and then. So, where do we turn? Well, there's FanFiction.Net, which as a functioning, streamlined site goes, is really good. However, they don't allow anything past the M/R rating (so, if you write slash, you're not welcome there). As a response to this, there arose AdultFanFiction.net. Which, just clicking on that link is enough to give you an idea of why it's going to fail. It's ONLY for adult fics (not that it's moderated, anyway), and it takes about 20 minutes to post a single story. In short, everyone with an account there hates it.
But I was pointed to a new possibility this morning, after making a public rant about that last site. It's called Archive Of Our Own. It's still in closed beta, but I'm already in love with it, after just poking around for about an hour. They managed to get testers from all over the place, clearly, because I'm seeing categories for Hot Fuzz, Due South, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide, and Jeeves and Wooster. To name a few (no Life on Mars yet, but it looks like new categories are easily added).
I've heard that leaving good concrit is the easiest way to getting a beta account, if you want to take a look.
And those are perfect, wonderful site. If you only write for one fandom. But even I dabble outside of my main playground every now and then. So, where do we turn? Well, there's FanFiction.Net, which as a functioning, streamlined site goes, is really good. However, they don't allow anything past the M/R rating (so, if you write slash, you're not welcome there). As a response to this, there arose AdultFanFiction.net. Which, just clicking on that link is enough to give you an idea of why it's going to fail. It's ONLY for adult fics (not that it's moderated, anyway), and it takes about 20 minutes to post a single story. In short, everyone with an account there hates it.
But I was pointed to a new possibility this morning, after making a public rant about that last site. It's called Archive Of Our Own. It's still in closed beta, but I'm already in love with it, after just poking around for about an hour. They managed to get testers from all over the place, clearly, because I'm seeing categories for Hot Fuzz, Due South, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide, and Jeeves and Wooster. To name a few (no Life on Mars yet, but it looks like new categories are easily added).
I've heard that leaving good concrit is the easiest way to getting a beta account, if you want to take a look.