more miscellanies

Accessibility rant here for anyone interested.

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Dear AO3: Am I really the first person to upload (or at least tag) a Giles/Jenny fic? Seriously?

ETA: No, it was just listed as Jenny/Giles, not Giles/Jenny. Whoops. Added something for the tag wranglers, I guess

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Also dear AO3: when I remove tickyboxes and then save, I kind of expect them to stay removed. Grrrrr. Yes, I know I told you to import a ton of fics with everything checked just to cover my bases until I could get things cleaned up. That didn't mean /persist/ with those settings.

And while I'm on the subject, why are things I've posted under a pseud authored by "$main, $pseud ($main)"? It's a little redundant there.

AO3 fic updates

AO3 now has 59 of my works up; I imported the pre-2000 fics I wanted to keep, and then the pre-2005 fics, and since I had no specific posting date for any of those, they are tagged and then dated Jan 1 of the year I know they were posted before.

This makes me look like I was /really really prolific/ those two days. *snicker*

It also skews my fandom stats; Buffy is at the top with 31, Stargate is the next down with *6*, and Supernatural, where I've probably been most prolific since 2005, only has 3.

Post 2005 I have a bunch of other fandoms (Firefly, Heroes, Merlin, Numb3rs, PotC), and 30 SPN fics.

But I think I shall wait with importing all those until later. And cleaning them up even later than that, because at least the dates will be right.

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Sorting works by hits still gives the same results for the top ten, of course, and the first fic I uploaded to AO3 (Blood Sin, a Vagrant Story fic) still ranks above the recently uploaded, with 31 hits where the next down has 20.

Sorting works by word count has older fics at the top -- one with almost 15k words, one with over 10k, one with 7k, and a bunch of 2-4k ones.

I really /like/ those top two fic.

(The third one is a good fic but the last 5% took so much teeth-pulling that I can't actually enjoy reading it, even when it's been long enough that I don't remember the words.)

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There were fics that I had totally forgotten I wrote, until I dug them up with the wayback machine. I have a nagging feeling that there are more fic that are lost in the ether. Possibly even good fic. Ones that I posted only to mailing list; ones that I wrote for paper zines and have long since lost; ones that I wrote for challenges and then forgot about.

Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, since none of my fics are very earth-shattering or important to fandom as a whole, but it kind of makes me a bit wistful.