Fandom Snowflake, Challenge #4

[the_wanlorn]

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

You know, I didn't think I had anything to rec for this. And I don't, really, I spend my time on AO3, bsky, mastodon (blorbo.social is the instance I'm on), and ravelry.

HOWEVER.

Two things to rec:

If you are into porny fandom bingo games and either Playboyy or Heated Rivalry, BOY HAVE I GOT A SITE FOR YOU. My friend admins it, but I built Fandom Bingo for him. I don't know about plans for future bingo games, but the two that are up there are great.

(Uh. If it's broken. Please let me know. I think I fixed all the bugs, but who knows. It's a website. There will always be bugs.)

SECOND:

Hey remember geocities? And then the whole thing was cruelly shut down and we lost tons of fan websites? WELL. There's this thing called neocities now and I have a webbed site there where I am slowly uploading my fic. Slowly. So very slowly. It's only got a handful at the moment, mostly A-Team (2010) but whatever. It's growing. Slowly.

Oh, and THIRD:

I haven't joined it yet but there's a fic webring that exists. So, yanno. Have fun with that everyone!

Comments

[stardust_rifle]

That fic website is so incredibly nostalgic... perhaps I should finish uploading all of my stuff?

[the_wanlorn]

Yes!!! Everyone should make their own fic site and get all their stuff on it! Like, what if AO3 goes down? What if there is an apocalypse and their servers die with all our fics on it and no one backed up anything anywhere?? Like, I keep my fics in three places because two is one and one is none, yanno?

[chaosvizier]

Geocities... now there's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. ;)

I do follow AO3, since I have a few friends who post there. And while I don't fic much, I do have a tiny handful of written bits that can be considered fanfic. Maybe one day I'll upload them. Mmmmmmaybe.

[the_wanlorn]

Post! your! fic!! Post! your! fic!!

For real for real, as long as your expectations are tempered*, it's such an amazing dopamine boost to post fic and look at it later and be like "they like me... they really like me!!" yanno?

* Tempered as in: the response you get depends on the size of the fandom/amount of activity, and there's a sweet spot for max comments where it comes to both. Like, I was over the moon when I got one (1) single comment on a fic I posted for a non-existent fandom. I quit posting OFMD fic almost entirely because the response to my longfic felt so low compared to posting in Lucifer fandom (mid-sized). Like, it sounds, idk, mercenary or whatever, but the return on investment (time) (emotions) for posting OFMD stuff was just. So low, given my expectations based on the size of the fandom, that I just stopped. Had I had lower expectations, I likely would've kept posting my shit, yanno? It wouldn't feel as pointless.

I forget where I was going with this. Post your stuff!

[chaosvizier]

I suppose I do realize that the fics I would post are probably in dead or near-dead categories, so they'd get zero comments by virtue of getting zero readers. In a sense, that makes things better, knowing that no one would ever know. :D

But I should still post the stuff. Just to say that I did.

[the_wanlorn]

Exactly!! Post just to say that you did!