Archive of Our Own

[paraka]

The OTW has decided to move the Archive of Our Own into open beta!!!

I wasn't planning on signing up for an account, since I only have one tiny little fic posted but, well, I've been writing a lot lately. I have 2 Merlin WIPs going on my hard drive right now and I signed up for apocabigbang to finish off that SCC fic I started writing in September.

Also, I'm a bit supporter of the OTW and archives in general so I just couldn't resist. So, should anyone want to read my one published fic off my journals, you can now find it over there

Anyways, I highly encourage all the fic writers on my flist to post their fics there. I know people get more comments on LJ, however it's a hell of a lot easier to find things in archives. Also, I always worry about where all the fic will be 10 years from now. Just look at Geocities. What would happen to fandom and our fannish history if LJ shut down?

If I get any invite codes, I'll make sure to post about it here.

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[paraka]

And even if there weren't problems between LJ's user base and PTB, it's still a commercial website. They're there to make money, one day fandom will find a new platform that they like using more and people will migrate away. Some will stay but SUP or whomever is in charge at the time will decided that blogging has become dated, people are on to the next new thing and LJ just isn't worth their money anymore. Geocities is only the most recent case of this type of thing happening. It's happened before and will happen again.