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1. Eh I broke the Archive of Our Own site again. But hey, I have managed to save the best of the Buffy Meta that I wrote from approximately 2002-2010, along with Dollhouse, Angel Meta, Doctor Who, and Torchwood.

I'm stacking up the fandoms.

It's really fun to archive meta over there - I highly recommend.

Have about 103 works saved to date.

Saved Buffy and the Pitfalls of Television as a work with chapters, which kind of works better than saving it as separate works. Could have done it as a series -- but it's really one work. The chapters make it possible to do footnotes. But I discovered I couldn't do footnotes in their little box for it -- because my footnotes exceeded the little box's character limit. Never go up against someone who went to law school regarding footnotes -- we hide stuff in the footnotes. Academics have nothing on lawyers when it comes to footnotes. Also I do footnotes for my job. (I hate footnotes by the way, but the new Word applications make them much easier to apply so no issues.

2. It's raining here or was. I stayed home. Watched bad television shows in the background while archiving, and spoke to two people on the phone. I'm ignoring the news and anything that gives me anxiety. Did edit a few of the essays I archived, formatting mostly, but I added stuff to some of them.

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DW kept the HTML from LJ, but it didn't bring over the images from LJ

I think it may have been that LJ never allowed images hosted on its servers to be hotlinked elsewhere, so that's probably why the links broke.

Regarding the tags, it's "Nonfiction", no hyphen. But yes, I expect there will be tags that will have no existing match yet. No worries though, because eventually the tag wranglers will find a way to canonize a new term or link it to an existing one.

The trick with authors is that it needs to be a specific work of theirs that is referenced rather than the authors themselves. For example, here's one for Joyce: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Ulysses%20-%20James%20Joyce and here's one for Millay: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/A%20Few%20Figs%20From%20Thistles%20-%20Edna%20St*d*%20Vincent%20Millay

Interesting note about the character limits! I hadn't run into this before but I imagine you won't be the only one.

Possibly. That actually makes sense. (Images have tricky copyright protections. You can get in trouble much faster sharing and reusing images than text. Text doesn't have as a strong a protection. I could get the rights to text, but not images.)

Ah, no hyphen? Although didn't come up with "Non" either. The tagging was the hardest part. Also, I forgot to indicate "March Meta Matters" on it, and had to go back. Didn't put it on everything ...because...well, 121 separate works. LOL!

My difficulty with meta on the net has always been the formatting/html/tagging details, which I've 0 patience for. Not a formatting nerd. Meta nerd, yes, formatting nerd, no.

You raise another interesting point, which is whether or not works that have been put in the MMM Collection indicate that anywhere. I assume from what you said that you meant you'd forgotten to assign them to the collection when posting. But I also wasn't sure if that status would show up anywhere on the work itself.

The answer is yes! It's in the work header. So thanks for helping me test that out. I'm going to add that reference to the FAQ as well since I might get asked if the participants need to add anything to the Author notes.

There's this "Challenge" section that you have to put it in that I didn't get until after I posted all 121 works. I figured it out when I was trying to post a Drabble for the International Fanworks Challenge -- but apparently you can't indicate that until Feb?

And you're welcome. ;-)

You can always indicate it now. They haven't canonized the "International Fanworks Day 2020" tag yet but once they do it'll get filtered together with all the challenge responses.