fanfiction.net & pairings

[roseveare]

So you can add pairings to your stories and search by pairing on fanfiction.net now, as I've only just noticed and amended all my stuff. It's the most ass-backwards way of doing this I've ever seen, but you can do it.

Not that fanfiction.net is anything but a giant pile of excrement and as of the last few months almost dead to me, considering it's added a block against copy-pasting fic, and since I very rarely read anything online rather than popping it on the e-reader, this is unbelievably irritating. (And it doesn't, point of fact, stop me from saving anything. It just means I have to dig out the html source code and muck around a lot more to get it.)

That aside, it strikes me that Haven is about the first time ever I've actually written mostly shipper fic in a fandom. By far the bulk of my other fic is gen. I blame Duke/Nathan. :)

Comments

[cdybedahl]

Move to AO3? Much better technically and ethically. If nothing else, it's financed via donations rather than ads.

[roseveare]

Oh, I'm on AO3 as well, though not absolutely everything has been added to the account there yet from the older fic. :) This is just my commentary on how ff.net is fast making itself more and more redundant to me as useful for anything. It's almost to the point where I wonder whether it's worth the effort to keep posting stuff there (considering that if anyone does read, about 1% of them feedback, and the site is slow and it makes you read click through their guidelines every time you post, and the control over formatting is horrible). But there are just a few people who I know still read my stuff on there, so I still update the account when I write anything new.