banana mango hiiiigh school

[allchildren]

I have an H/C Bingo card!

muscle strains and spasms	slaves (regular)	vampires: sun burn or poisoning	fear of flying	plane crash
asphyxiation	heat stroke	eating disorders	fallen angels	mutation
amnesia	hunger / starvation	WILD CARD	surprise sexswap	post-apocalypse
septicemia/infected wounds	spinal injury	undercover: having to participate in illegal / hurtful activity	aliens made us do it	insomnia
Stockholm syndrome	grief	exhaustion	isolation / accidentally locked in	minor illness (cold, allergies)

I'm pretty much all about the first column on the left, and the bottom and middle rows across are intriguing as well. Also, I was watching Fringe last week with Carrie (her first time through), and The X-Files this week with Rawles and Tropie (a childhood text for us all), and when I saw the list of hurt/comfort cliches (zeroing in on "experimented on by evil scientists"!!) so much suddenly became clear.

Also, if you are the sort of person who might read my fic: where would you like to read it? I'm pretty much over hosting it on LJ @ trisfic, and am putting all my new stuff and gradually the old stuff too up at AO3 (where you do not need an acct to comment) but I'm torn. And want to make it easier for my potential constituency, so to speak. Here, have a poll.

Poll #3395 where does the fic go?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

View Respondents

assuming you are a potential reader/commenter, how would you like it?

View Answers

post fic in allchildren, which crossposts to sainfoin-fields, + AO3
6 (54.5%)

post fic in dedicated DW comm for my fic + AO3
0 (0.0%)

post only in AO3 but announce fic @ allchildren/sainfoin-fields
3 (27.3%)

other, which i will comment to explain
2 (18.2%)

All these sites! I just don't knoooow.

Comments

[liminalliz]

I find the reviewing mechanism in AO3 to not be as fun as on dw or lj.

[jlh]

I like giving people billions of options, because AO3 and DW are so weirdly political in some people's minds. So I post on my LJ, my DW fic journal, and AO3. Then I make a header-only post, with links to all three, and I post that on my DW and any comms I crosspost to. Pretty simple really.

I will say that in the months that I've been posting to my DW fic journal, I have received exactly one comment on it. Part of that, though, may be that I don't know of any DW comms for fic crossposting in my fandoms, and because most of my pals are not on DW (as I learned when I made a post about crossposting recently). I get comments on AO3 but that's not why I post there; I just like having that archive.

[littledust]

Interesting that you should post this, because I am also struggling to solve the dilemma of Where The Heck To Post Fic. I have a separate LJ for fic, and I'm trying to decide whether I want to mirror it at DW or just crosspost everything to my main LJ and my main DW. (While I appreciate the AO3 archive and have an account, I don't really use it.)

My sticking point is that stuff posted to LJ generally gets more comments. Me/comments = OTP. On the other hand, I also don't feel so comfortable leaving my content on LJ.

In short, I have no answers, but I can at least sympathize!