Tooling Around with Archive Of Our Own
Dec. 26th, 2009 03:15 pmSince I already did my post-week deprogramming on Thursday afternoon and Friday, I still have almost two whole days to fill, so I decided to investigate Archive Of Our Own now that the major stress of Yuletide is over. Now I can check out the cool tools, and not just panic over 'omg did I post to the right collection?!'
The first thing I did was mess around with Pseuds. My primary pseud is Scylla, which is appropriate because yeah, that's basically my callsign in every fandom I write in, even if I have different usernames. But I also went and created pseuds for Bardicsidhe and Cuda, since the former is my FFN name and linked to the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom, and the latter is STILL the name I plan to use for my F&F stuff.
The neat part about pseuds - and what I was worried over until I actually started fiddling with them - is that the psued isn't standalone. In parenthesis next to it is my primary one, so someone could potentially google work by bardicsidhe and would know that I have other, non-Yu-Gi-Oh work as well. Seems like a nice way to group and archive all of our fiction without having it spread all over the Internet, linked by a series of bookmarks and favorites.
I really like the tag system, too. The tags are pretty widely varied both for the fandoms and the miscellaneous tags. I had no problem finding the fandom tags I was looking for OTHER than the ones I used for Yuletide. That magnificently huge fandom/character list could well be because of Yuletide but regardless, is pretty awesome in general. I keep hearing the term 'tag wrangler' being bandied about, and now that I see just how the system works, I'm pretty darn grateful to them for their hard work here.
The labeling system is nice, the notes and summary system is nice, the whole place is pretty darn flexible but really tailored to writers, rather than bloggers - as Livejournal, Blogspot, and others logically would be.
I like it. I think that it was a wise choice for Yuletide to move there, all things considered. And for the sake of my sanity, I'll be consolidating a lot of my fic there in the future.
The first thing I did was mess around with Pseuds. My primary pseud is Scylla, which is appropriate because yeah, that's basically my callsign in every fandom I write in, even if I have different usernames. But I also went and created pseuds for Bardicsidhe and Cuda, since the former is my FFN name and linked to the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom, and the latter is STILL the name I plan to use for my F&F stuff.
The neat part about pseuds - and what I was worried over until I actually started fiddling with them - is that the psued isn't standalone. In parenthesis next to it is my primary one, so someone could potentially google work by bardicsidhe and would know that I have other, non-Yu-Gi-Oh work as well. Seems like a nice way to group and archive all of our fiction without having it spread all over the Internet, linked by a series of bookmarks and favorites.
I really like the tag system, too. The tags are pretty widely varied both for the fandoms and the miscellaneous tags. I had no problem finding the fandom tags I was looking for OTHER than the ones I used for Yuletide. That magnificently huge fandom/character list could well be because of Yuletide but regardless, is pretty awesome in general. I keep hearing the term 'tag wrangler' being bandied about, and now that I see just how the system works, I'm pretty darn grateful to them for their hard work here.
The labeling system is nice, the notes and summary system is nice, the whole place is pretty darn flexible but really tailored to writers, rather than bloggers - as Livejournal, Blogspot, and others logically would be.
I like it. I think that it was a wise choice for Yuletide to move there, all things considered. And for the sake of my sanity, I'll be consolidating a lot of my fic there in the future.
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