Catch up post

[donutsweeper]

Archive Of Our Own is in open beta now and I created an account there by putting in a request. My plan is eventually, in my copious amounts of free time, to upload a bunch of my stories there. I like fanfiction.net, but it's limiting as to what can be posted and I never wound up using it as much as I'd have liked to.

Regarding Yuletide... I got assigned the fandom that I least wanted and the request is one of those unspecific 'oh, write me anything I just love the show' types so I'm flailing a little, but hopefully something will come to me. Eventually.

There's a new Doctor Who today, but I never even saw the last one and unless this one has my flist all atwitter I doubt I'll go out of my way to see this one. I'm apathetic towards the show and don't have a lot of faith in RTD, which is a sad state of affairs. *sigh*

Comments

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

Not sure if I count as all atwitter, but the plot line of this at least looks amazing. Have you seen the promo?

What exactly is AOOO? I'm tempted to post fic there, but I wasn't sure if that was what it was for.

ETA: This years Yuletide seems to have turned out that way for a number of people. I know I'm in a similar position and fairly nervous as a result.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It's just another archive for fanfic, but a multifandom one and it isn't as restrictive in what it allows as some of the others (like ff.net). It was in closed beta for a long time but is finally allowing more authors in.

As for "Waters" I just tracked it down, and it seems like typical Ten and RTD over-angsty plot to me. I'm sure it interests a lot of people, but it's what I don't really like about Ten or RTD's stories.

oddly, for yuletide, all the reactions I've seen are SQUEE!!! or OMG!!!! there's been nothing in between.

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

Ah, no worries then. Probably best to give it a miss as they're bound to recap it if it's important to the next ones.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'll watch it if it ever airs here, and probably track down a streaming link just in case I watch to catch it before the next one (which I do plan on watching, just because of what it represents). But other than that, skipping it is probably better since it'll prevent me from finding faults with the plot and the characters.

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Oh hon, you sound kind of defeated there :S

If you need a hand with Yuletide, drop me a line - I still make a good sounding board :)

I'll probably pick up DW on the iPlayer later, since the knitters will probably be talking about it on Wednesday, and if I don't see it, I'll only get spoiled!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thanks! With luck I'll come up with something, I'm going to take another look at the source material and see if anything jumps out at me as a plot idea.

I can see you wanting to watch before getting spoiled, luckily I don't have that problem here.

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

I have to DL Mars to watch it, and that's not going to happen anytime soon. :-p My problem is the RTD factor, too. I am more than a bit skittish about anything he has a hand in, anymore. I'll monitor the comms and see what others have to say.

Not that I have enough fic to bother with, but what really sets AOOO out from WWOMB? Other than it's seeming (to me, anyway) corporateness?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I find most fic at wwomb has weird issues with things not loading right- odd marks instead of quotation marks or something.

I haven't seen many reactions to Waters yet, either good or bad