Feb. 5th, 2019

spatz: young Jane Roland sitting on a windowsill writing notes on her arm (Temeraire Jane Roland studying in window)
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.

for those who are interested )

If anyone has additional clever ideas, or thoughts about how to make it easier, please comment to let me know!

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