A question to you all...

[varelishawt]

I'm thinking of posting my Varel/F!Cousland stories to ff.net, but due to the nature of the stories, which are fills for DA kink meme prompts, they are, of a necessity, out of order, with only vague references to when they happen in the story's timeline. I'm currently chewing on ideas not only for requests, but for a prologue and the (action-adventure) story of just how the hell Varel has such an in with the Wardens that he knows so many of their secrets. However, I predict that I will concentrate on the pr0n first before the history.

The question, therefore, is whether I should wait until I have a proper prologue/history written and posted to ff.net first before posting the kmeme fills. What is everyone's opinions?

Comments

[aroihkin]

Chipping in with my 2c: FFNet doesn't technically allow smut. It's why S&S isn't posted there, even though I have a lot of other fanfic on my account there. If some random jackass reported the story, it would get yanked down, taking any reviews and such with it, and I'm not sure if they yank your whole account or just the story, anymore.

Since I write S&S extreeeemely out of order, and try to keep most of the parts relatively stand-alone, I've turned it into a series on AO3. This has worked out marvelously for me so far, so I highly recommend it. You can re-order stories in the series, see hit counts on individual ones, etc etc. It creates a mini-index for just the series itself within your profile.

Plus A03 is made of win and <3. :D

I'm disgruntled that I didn't do this with Immovable Object, which really needs to be written out of order as well... but isn't really a "series" anyway, so there you go. :( Being stuck with rigid chapter order on ffnet is a serious downer.

[varelishawt]

A03 doesn't seem to get much traffic, though. And there are much more sexually explicit DA stories already on ff.net - though the sex in mine is vague enough that they will (should?) pass muster.

[aroihkin]

Depends what you consider much traffic, I suppose. I'm used to fandoms that haven't seen new canon material in over a decade...

With either place, you're still going to want to advertise on the various DW/LJ comms and such, just as you do now. You're going to get more people randomly finding you on FFnet, but... yeah.

FFnet also randomly deletes formatting, so that's always fun.

AO3 is rumored to be adding subscription stuff soonish, which will help. I've toyed with the idea of adding the non-smutty parts of S&S to FFnet just for the random readers myself, though. With a link to the full version, naturally.

[tevarel]

Actually Fan Fiction does allow smut. It has a mature section and I get more readers when I post them there.

[aroihkin]

"Mature" is not "MA (18+)" like the site used to have before outlawing anything that fits into the category, but okay.

Myself, I'm staying wary. I've been on there for nine years and don't intend to have my crap wiped out.

[aroihkin]

Yep, I'm not misremembering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanFiction.Net

Under NC-17. Yes, it's wiki, but all I'm doing is confirming something I remember happening right around when I lived in Seattle. (I coulda sworn it was during 2003, but 2002 isn't that far off.)

I'm not sitting here wagging any fingers at people, fuck knows TAF skates the M/NC-17 line reeeaaaaaally closely at various points, I'm just giving my two cents on why I haven't personally posted k!meme stuff there and am probably never going to in their entirety.

[tevarel]

I'll post an update if I ever get censored. I have adult DA fan fiction up there that is VERY adult and it has not been deleted. If I get deleted, I'll let everyone know.:)

[aroihkin]

*shrugs?*

It may never happen. That's not really my point.

Just, folks shouldn't go on there to post k!meme stuff without knowing the technical problems with it. That site is and/or used to be super famous for just deleting the shit out of everyone and everything.

I mean, if someone was considering posting k!meme art on DevArt, you wouldn't warn them that it could get TOS'd even though there's an awful lot of smut on that site... particularly in this sparkly new fandom? :/ "Hasn't been banninated yet" doesn't reassure me much after almost a decade of being on ffnet.

Anyway, I dropped my 2c.