AO3 at last

[amedia]

So I'm finally putting stuff up on AO3! Old stuff - nothing new to see, move along. :-)

I've put up all of my Rat Patrol and Barney Miller stuff - basically anything that has a Dietrich in it - and I'll be gradually putting other stuff up as well. The Amedia account there will essentially mirror my site on fanfic.tv, but may give the fic a little more exposure and also provide a backup when fanfic.tv is down for maintenance.

ETA I'm I thought I was the first person there ever to post Barney Miller fic. Hope I'm not the last! Yay! There's MORE! (see settiai's link below).[End ETA]

I dithered a bit and decided to add a "warning: offensive language" tag to "On and Off" in case the language used by the gay-bashers might bother people. I think the language itself is appropriate to the context, but if someone doesn't feel like reading it they shouldn't have to.

It's a nice interface, easy to use, although it's incredibly slow - is that always the case, or did I pick an especially busy weekend to start using it? I hardly feel I have the right to complain, given that all this wonderfulness is free, and I can use the time while I'm waiting for pages to load to sort laundry play sudoku.

Comments

[twistedchick]

You're coinciding with sign-ups for Yuletide, which is being run using the AO3 archive this week. That should explain the slowness -- roughly 3000 extra people there.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Holy cow! That explains a lot! Thanks for the info. :-)

[settiai]

*nods*

Plus this is the first year that sign-ups have been done through AO3 (though the fics were posted there last year), so there have been tons of little unexpected glitches that are making things even more complicated.

[chorale.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I followed the link and re-read that great story of Harris and Dietrich, then I read one more, and then I went to "Amedia" and read the Adam-12 story from there. It's time to cool off now from all of the male hotness!

[amedia.livejournal.com]

:-) Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed!

[settiai]

I'm the first person there ever to post Barney Miller fic. Hope I'm not the last!

*tilts head*

That's odd. I've had multiple BM fics on AO3 for ages now, but they don't seem to be showing up in the fandom list. (ETA: Ah. It looks like your fandom tag is different than the canonical one here, and they haven't been merged yet. Mystery solved!)

[amedia.livejournal.com]

OMG squee! "A Voice in the Dark" was the first story of yours that I ever read, and I love it, and look, you have another one there, and so does someone else!!!!!!

But now I also feel silly for getting the tag wrong. Should I change the tag on mine, or wait for the admins to merge them? (Basically, which is easier on them?)

[settiai]

I'd say go ahead and edit the tag. It would only take a few seconds on your part, and it would mean one less thing for the tag wranglers to have to deal with.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Done, and thank you!