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triumphs!
1) I posted my Yuletide story! Every year I swear I'm not going to procrastinate and then I do - but I always make the deadline.
2) I have bookmarked all of my old saved fic up through 2018! This officially makes me the MOST caught up on bookmarking that I have ever been - at slightly under 5 years, and close to 4 since I only have 6 left from 2018 - since I started reading fic in 2000 and started bookmarking on Delicious in 2006. No one's excited about this except me, but you're gonna get a treatise about my bookmarking process anyway.
Step 1: Reading
I read a fic, like a normal person. I like the fic! I (hopefully) leave a comment, or at least a kudos, then bookmark the link in Firefox. Links accumulate over the course of each month.
Step 2: Sorting
At the end of the month (or, more often, halfway through the next month), I open all of the month's fic in tabs, and then I sort the links into their appropriate folders.
Step 3: Archiving
I save each fic to the Internet Archive. I got really really sick of going back through my Pinboard and finding dead links when I was trying to rec something, so now I just preemptively save that shit. Unfortunately, AO3 makes this as hard as possible by defaulting to the first chapter when you're not logged in, so for multichapter Mature/Explicit fics this step can take ages. Don't talk to me about series. I usually put on an audiobook so I'm not bored to death with all the clicking.
Step 4: Monthly Recs
I pick out the fics that I liked best/have something to say about/want to promote because they're small, and I rec them. On Tumblr first. Then I crosspost on Dreamwidth. Then Pillowfort, though honestly it's pretty dead there. I very rarely remember to crosspost on Twitter, but I don't like to because it feels weirdly public. Between the formatting and the 'uhhhh what do I say' and the tagging, this can take awhile.
Step 5: Marinating
The bookmarks wait, aging peacefully.
Step 6: Re-reading & Bookmarking
Eventually I decide to read the fic again! Most of the time, I still love it, and I bookmark and tag it on Pinboard: fanwork type, fandom, ship(s), tropes, word count, read date. This way I can find it again, to re-read five million more times or to shove it at friends. I check that it's archived on the Wayback Machine, and archive it if not. (I'm currently in the process of going back to the fic from before I started archiving in 2020 and checking, which is going....slowly. Especially since people freaked out about AI and started locking their fic down. I'm up to 2014 though!)
Sometimes, I do not love it. Sometimes, I check the timestamp and go 'Katie, why were you up at 3AM'. Then I quietly delete the link and go about my business.
Step 7: Rinse, Repeat
The life cycle of a fan continues.
2) I have bookmarked all of my old saved fic up through 2018! This officially makes me the MOST caught up on bookmarking that I have ever been - at slightly under 5 years, and close to 4 since I only have 6 left from 2018 - since I started reading fic in 2000 and started bookmarking on Delicious in 2006. No one's excited about this except me, but you're gonna get a treatise about my bookmarking process anyway.
Step 1: Reading
I read a fic, like a normal person. I like the fic! I (hopefully) leave a comment, or at least a kudos, then bookmark the link in Firefox. Links accumulate over the course of each month.
Step 2: Sorting
At the end of the month (or, more often, halfway through the next month), I open all of the month's fic in tabs, and then I sort the links into their appropriate folders.
Step 3: Archiving
I save each fic to the Internet Archive. I got really really sick of going back through my Pinboard and finding dead links when I was trying to rec something, so now I just preemptively save that shit. Unfortunately, AO3 makes this as hard as possible by defaulting to the first chapter when you're not logged in, so for multichapter Mature/Explicit fics this step can take ages. Don't talk to me about series. I usually put on an audiobook so I'm not bored to death with all the clicking.
Step 4: Monthly Recs
I pick out the fics that I liked best/have something to say about/want to promote because they're small, and I rec them. On Tumblr first. Then I crosspost on Dreamwidth. Then Pillowfort, though honestly it's pretty dead there. I very rarely remember to crosspost on Twitter, but I don't like to because it feels weirdly public. Between the formatting and the 'uhhhh what do I say' and the tagging, this can take awhile.
Step 5: Marinating
The bookmarks wait, aging peacefully.
Step 6: Re-reading & Bookmarking
Eventually I decide to read the fic again! Most of the time, I still love it, and I bookmark and tag it on Pinboard: fanwork type, fandom, ship(s), tropes, word count, read date. This way I can find it again, to re-read five million more times or to shove it at friends. I check that it's archived on the Wayback Machine, and archive it if not. (I'm currently in the process of going back to the fic from before I started archiving in 2020 and checking, which is going....slowly. Especially since people freaked out about AI and started locking their fic down. I'm up to 2014 though!)
Sometimes, I do not love it. Sometimes, I check the timestamp and go 'Katie, why were you up at 3AM'. Then I quietly delete the link and go about my business.
Step 7: Rinse, Repeat
The life cycle of a fan continues.