Blog Housekeeping and Regular Housekeeping

[alchemistdoctor]

So: half the bathroom is deep-cleaned, and I'm 2/3 of the way through finishing those fic recs.  I've also added cut tags for those viewing the recs on their reading page. I don't know how to make them work inside the post itself. 

Something I realised is that while I subscribed/bookmarked a lot of BBC Sherlock fic, I didn't do nearly as much bookmarking/subscribing/keeping ACD Canon fic. I know part of that is because most of the ACD fic I read here, on DW, but I think I'm also reluctant to hold onto canon fic the same way. It feels like I'm somehow betraying canon? I'm going to try to get over that this next year, because I want those authors getting more credit after I've enjoyed their fic. 

Anyway, now to take a food break, which has been long-coming. 

Comments

[psghayleaux]

Go you with the cleaning. My bathroom needs a deep clean, but actually doing it isn't happening at the moment.

[alchemistdoctor]

It's slow going because it's been so long, but very satisfying.

[psghayleaux]

Two thumbs up.

[gamerchick02]

Woot for cleaning! I created a UFYH community here so feel free to join that if you want to (just search for UFYH).

[alchemistdoctor]

Thanks! I'll definitely give it a look.

[gamerchick02]

It's pretty blank right now but I'm hoping to grow a community around it here. And if the UFYH lady from tumblr and facebook wants to have it, I'll gladly hand it over to her.

[alchemistdoctor]

I hope more people show up! I enjoyed UFYH on tumblr.

[gamerchick02]

OMG yes! I made some cool friends over there in the UFYH community. I hope some come over here.

[sanguinity]

Could you reframe canon fic as a love letter to canon? Because I think a lot of authors, that's exactly how they're writing it.

Cut tags mostly only work when you're coming at the post from outside: dash, journal, or archive. The closest you can get to linking the post itself and still have the cut-tags work is to backdate the three posts to days where nothing else appears, and then link to the DATE of the post, and not the post itself. Or you could make them top-of-the-journal sticky, instead of linking to them: lots of people do that with their masterlist posts.

[alchemistdoctor]

That's a good way to frame it. I've only written one canon fic, but it was with that mindset.

Thanks for the info! I did think about making them stickies but it would be a lot. I think just leaving them as masterposts will be better, since I have the sticky at the top leading to all three. After all, if someone clicks on those links, they want to see the whole post anyway. :)

[brancher]

ooh wait, where does one go on DW for ACD fic??

[alchemistdoctor]

Oh boy okay so:

221b_recs
acdholmesfest
holmes_minor
holmestice
sherlock60
watsons_woes

A few of these are now archival, and some welcome all versions of Holmesian fic, but all of them have some really good ACD canon stuff!