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[shadowkat]

Where have I been?

I've been compulsively adding my meta and essays to Archive of Our Own, all week long (at night & occasionally on lunch breaks) and I think I broke it? I also think I broke Dreamwidth? Both crashed on me tonight. At different points. Either that or the Universe wants me to take a breather, already.

And...oh ghod, have I written a shitload of meta. Also a shitload of episode and television series reviews. I haven't even made it through July 2009 yet, and I already have over 60 works uploaded and saved. 21 are Doctor Who, 35 are Buffy.
And I haven't even gotten to the monster meta that I did..."Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Pitfalls of Television" -- which is basically me playing with footnotes.

I'm beginning to wonder if I can or should attempt to back it all up on Archive of Our Own?

This is part of the March Meta Matters Challenge. Apparently they want Meta Writers to add their content to Archive of Our Own -- and save it. (I'm not sure they know what they are asking? Meta writers are often more prolific than fanfic writers. For one thing, Meta doesn't necessarily require betaeing and it's easier and faster to write. Plus you can be as short or lengthy as you want.)

(I'm shadowkat67 over year. So far all my kudos are on "Figuring out Angel's Pesky Curse" which is kind of bewildering. But okay. )

Comments

[rose_griffes]

Huh, since I'm more of a fic writer (when I write anything other than short "I liked it / I hated it" posts), it never occurred to me to move any meta posts over there...

Also, wow, you really have written a LOT of meta posts. Oof.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I'm at 88 now. I'm beginning to think I wrote too many essays. Good news, I didn't do as much in the last five years...so once I get past 2015. I'm up to 2009 at the moment.

[cjlasky7]

Oh come on:

"Pitfalls of Television" was a whole lot more than "playing with footnotes." It was the best, most comprehensive essay I've ever read about how the vagaries of TV production affect the creative path of a TV series (in this case, Buffy).

(And I gotta admit: I'm impressed by a lot of footnotes. How many in that essay? 114?)

[shadowkat]

Well, thank you. I haven't even gotten to it yet. I'm at 88 works. Oh god. A lot of Doctor Who Episode Reviews.

Did get a few responses...all bewildering. I mean I have over 80s works and they picked those "three" to comment on? Alrighty then.

The three?

1. Figuring out the Buffy Episode Crush
2. That Ianto needed to be killed in Children of Earth and he wasn't the only character killed. (the Janto fans are really annoying.)
3. Amazing Moffat - Forests of the Dead...Silence in the Library

Honestly, they weren't my best work.

[shadowkat]

PS - you should put your meta over there too! Although the ATPOBTVS Board is NOT worth hunting stuff down in. I tried and gave up. Just deleted all mentions of board members as much as possible from the essays, since it is close to impossible to find stuff in those archives.

[cjlasky7]

Nah. The only essay of mine that had any scholarly heft to it was "Buffy and the Birth of American Feminism," but that depended on a large excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to drive the point home. I don't think anything else is worth the bother.

[shadowkat]

You should see some of the stuff I archived. Lots of Doctor Who and Dollhouse reviews. Also, people like weird stuff.

Steven's Universe is a fandom over there by the way. It's not Buffy specific. It's all fandoms.

[mefisto]

Yeah, you have to be willing to *read* the archives, for the most part. And then there are lots of OT discussions. But it's possible to do some searches if you know what you're looking for.

[shadowkat]

I was hunting a post from redcat and couldn't find it to save my life. So gave up.

Also I think I broke the Archive of Our Own Site again. I have 103 works saved. Which is an insane amount of meta.

[mefisto]

I was able to find some of my own posts, but only because I remembered specific words I had used.

Yes, 103 is insane. :)

[shadowkat]

It's a 121 now. Sigh. I stopped finally. My shoulders were killing me. Also, I decided posting all the reviews of the Buffy comics...was unnecessary.

[mefisto]

Good decision on the comics. I stopped reading the comics long ago.

[shadowkat]

I actually read everything more or less up to S12. The non-Joss written comics were pretty good, ironically. LOL!

But canon? Nah. I'd say fanfic.

[mefisto]

That's my view too.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, it's impossible to stay canonical when you completely switch mediums. Movie to television yes. But television to comic or novels? No.

[mefisto]

I got into an on line argument once with someone who insisted that I had to accept the comics as canon. Neither of us convinced the other.

[shadowkat]

It's kind of like arguing a lot of things - depends on how you define canon, fanfic, etc. Or what wavelength you are on. If you aren't defining it in the same way or don't agree on the definition, the argument is a waste of time.

[mefisto]

S/he (can't remember now) insisted that because Joss said it was canon -- which he did before the comics came out -- I had to accept that. I don't give the author that much authority.

[shadowkat]

He said the same thing about Bryan Lynch's Angel comics, then back-pedaled. I don't either. Also, it was a collaborative work -- he's not the sole author/creator of it. It's highly egotistical and narcissistic for him to think so.

[mefisto]

Exactly.