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Snowflake Challenge - Day 10
Day 10: Create a fanwork.
I''m going to use archiving all of my Mad Max: Fury Road meta on AO3 yesterday for this one.
MMFR was a very unusual fandom for me, in that I probably spent more time on fannish discussion than I did with fic (although I still wrote a few and beta'd a few and read many more). Tumblr's ability to easily combine visual and text media was absolutely essential for this fandom, imo - how could you easily dissect the micro-second flashes of Max's hallucinations, or squint to figure out what kind of produce was hidden in the War Rig without fuzzy freeze frames to argue over? So when Tumblr started imploding, one of my first reactions was distress that the central part of that fandom was going to disappear. In fact, one of the most prolific writers already got her blog deemed NSFW and you can't access her original posts anymore, which is deeply enraging.
I'm definitely a tortoise rather than a hare, so I collected a bunch of posts about archiving and procrastinated and eventually came up with a fairly easy method of preserving the pages with images intact, and archiving them (or at least access to them) on AO3. I started it for MMFR fandom specifically, but it should work for anyone who has gifsets or photosets or moodboards that they want to archive without having to rehost all the images.
If anyone has additional clever ideas, or thoughts about how to make it easier, please comment to let me know!
I''m going to use archiving all of my Mad Max: Fury Road meta on AO3 yesterday for this one.
MMFR was a very unusual fandom for me, in that I probably spent more time on fannish discussion than I did with fic (although I still wrote a few and beta'd a few and read many more). Tumblr's ability to easily combine visual and text media was absolutely essential for this fandom, imo - how could you easily dissect the micro-second flashes of Max's hallucinations, or squint to figure out what kind of produce was hidden in the War Rig without fuzzy freeze frames to argue over? So when Tumblr started imploding, one of my first reactions was distress that the central part of that fandom was going to disappear. In fact, one of the most prolific writers already got her blog deemed NSFW and you can't access her original posts anymore, which is deeply enraging.
I'm definitely a tortoise rather than a hare, so I collected a bunch of posts about archiving and procrastinated and eventually came up with a fairly easy method of preserving the pages with images intact, and archiving them (or at least access to them) on AO3. I started it for MMFR fandom specifically, but it should work for anyone who has gifsets or photosets or moodboards that they want to archive without having to rehost all the images.
- STEP 1: Archive the posts on Archive.org and collect the URLs
- If you’re not saving many, you can save them one at a time (walkthrough)
- Or you can use their bookmarklet extension to do it faster
- Bonus: from the archived page, click through to any direct links - if they’re already archived, great; if not, the site will helpfully prompt you to save those pages, too. Useful for saving stuff that you reference but isn’t yours to archive elsewhere.
- STEP 2: Archive your posts at AO3. Depending on the fucks you have left to give, you might:
- Simply link to all of the archived posts at their Wayback Machine URLs - easy, fast, probably a good option for entirely visual content, i.e. gifsets (moodboard example)
- Copy the post text, link the archived version with images. Easy, good for posts with visual content that is illustrative but not essential to comprehension. (example)
- Bonus: include descriptive text in lieu of images, for visually impaired readers
- Copy the text, imbed the Archive.org image links - I only tried this with one image, and I’m not 100% sure it’s kosher - @internetarchive? My instinct is that hotlinking is rude, but I am a Fandom Old
- A combination of the above methods (plus some of your own?)
- Don’t forget to tag it helpfully!
If anyone has additional clever ideas, or thoughts about how to make it easier, please comment to let me know!