i abandoned lj for drama reasons, and currently post here, at ao3, and ff.net. one thing i like about posting at ao3 is that i can just lift the html straight out of my dw post here, and paste it in. boom, done. all the notes and everything, all the page jumps, it all just transfers neatly. the only thing i have to type over again is the chapter title.
i haven't bothered to post anything at deviant art that wasn't actually visual art. i see a lot of people doing that, but like you said, there's no way to put a summary, so i've been leery of it. i certainly haven't read anything that people have posted there.
i'm very wary of ff.net, and only post there to catch readers who don't go other places, and to have a better idea of how many people are actually reading my stuff. for instance, my last chapter of 'wings' got one - count it, one - review here, however it's had 130 hits on ff.net. if it weren't for that, i'd think jannifer was the last person left reading, and just start emailing her the stories, honestly. it's the ff.net traffic stats that are all that keeps me going sometimes. as long as i know people are interested, i'll keep writing, but the dearth of commentary is sad. i wish there were hit counters here, too. or, ideally, more people who just said 'hey, read this, thumbs up' or 'hey, read this, whatevs' or anything else they might want to chime in with. the silence is heavy.
*ahem*
anyway, i worry about posting at ff.net, because they say that they only go up to 'm' and a lot of my stuff is 'ao'. they say that you can't post sex. >.> uh. and there are these people who like to go around being nazi's about it, and have this program to 'clean' fandoms of the smut, of things written like a script, and of things that are grammatically unfortunate. i've been worried they'll get a wild hair up their asses and purge the da fandom the same way, which would effectively gut us. so i don't treat them as my primary posting arena, i just use them as a ruler for how well my fic is actually going over in the community.
so, to sum up, i post here to be amongst my friends and peers, at ff.net to keep track of my traffic, and at ao3 because i can. i didn't know about that last place... wtf is it? i'll have to check it out. maybe we should all storm it and flood the place with awesomeness.
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i haven't bothered to post anything at deviant art that wasn't actually visual art. i see a lot of people doing that, but like you said, there's no way to put a summary, so i've been leery of it. i certainly haven't read anything that people have posted there.
i'm very wary of ff.net, and only post there to catch readers who don't go other places, and to have a better idea of how many people are actually reading my stuff. for instance, my last chapter of 'wings' got one - count it, one - review here, however it's had 130 hits on ff.net. if it weren't for that, i'd think jannifer was the last person left reading, and just start emailing her the stories, honestly. it's the ff.net traffic stats that are all that keeps me going sometimes. as long as i know people are interested, i'll keep writing, but the dearth of commentary is sad. i wish there were hit counters here, too. or, ideally, more people who just said 'hey, read this, thumbs up' or 'hey, read this, whatevs' or anything else they might want to chime in with. the silence is heavy.
*ahem*
anyway, i worry about posting at ff.net, because they say that they only go up to 'm' and a lot of my stuff is 'ao'. they say that you can't post sex. >.> uh. and there are these people who like to go around being nazi's about it, and have this program to 'clean' fandoms of the smut, of things written like a script, and of things that are grammatically unfortunate. i've been worried they'll get a wild hair up their asses and purge the da fandom the same way, which would effectively gut us. so i don't treat them as my primary posting arena, i just use them as a ruler for how well my fic is actually going over in the community.
so, to sum up, i post here to be amongst my friends and peers, at ff.net to keep track of my traffic, and at ao3 because i can. i didn't know about that last place... wtf is it? i'll have to check it out. maybe we should all storm it and flood the place with awesomeness.