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passing commentary on passing commentary
Sep. 22nd, 2022 12:08 pm1) The warning bells have been ringing for a while on the possible collapse of FF.net in the near future, and they seem to be getting louder.
FicHub and FanFictionDownloader have been passed around as options for quietly saving anything you don't want to risk vanishing into the abyss. There are definitely a few I'll take pains to download as I'd genuinely grieve lose them (though I also hope no well-intentioned archivists start mass cross-posting other people's work to AO3 without permission since, oof, that seems messy). Typing it out by hand is... not going to happen, Tumblr user prismatic-bell, please put down the monk robes.
In the meantime, I suppose I need to decide whether to rescue any of my own works. There's always the option to just yeet them into the orphaned life - but I don't think the self-insert Bionicle fic is going to make it.
2) A collection of Goodreads reviews so scathing they obliterated the authors from their (admittedly misused) social media accounts makes for an interesting read if you don't mind watching murder happen in real time. Every insight I have into writer Twitter makes me even more determined to Lemony Snicket it harder than Lemony Snicket Snicketed it, in terms of having a public identity. Possibly it was just a mistake to link so many artistic egos into a hivemind like this.
3) Semi-relatedly, a friend recently sent me into a tailspin by revealing one of the main creative contributors to indie video game The Beginner's Game was a member of the same niche forum that formed the backbone of my early online experiences. Once I stopped laughing ("it's like the online version of 'hey, I went to the same school as that guy'! only more like hey, I was part of the same cult* as that guy?") I did an idle search around and found this old combo blog post and comic from the other main creator, Dave Wreden, in which he lays out in compelling honesty his experience with the strange weight of fame and success in the modern age. In particular this sentiment struck me: "Each new receipt of [praise] does little more than set the new standard of my own satisfaction." What an easy trap to fall into.
(*This is a joke.)
4) A video meme has been going around for a while featuring various slapstick moments set to A Hard Knock Life, and alas, it tickles my funny bone enormously. This Scream compilation was one of the first I saw and still leaves me chuckling, so you can imagine my delight when I found the TMNT guys are on it too: for both the 2003 and RotTMNT generations no less!
FicHub and FanFictionDownloader have been passed around as options for quietly saving anything you don't want to risk vanishing into the abyss. There are definitely a few I'll take pains to download as I'd genuinely grieve lose them (though I also hope no well-intentioned archivists start mass cross-posting other people's work to AO3 without permission since, oof, that seems messy). Typing it out by hand is... not going to happen, Tumblr user prismatic-bell, please put down the monk robes.
In the meantime, I suppose I need to decide whether to rescue any of my own works. There's always the option to just yeet them into the orphaned life - but I don't think the self-insert Bionicle fic is going to make it.
2) A collection of Goodreads reviews so scathing they obliterated the authors from their (admittedly misused) social media accounts makes for an interesting read if you don't mind watching murder happen in real time. Every insight I have into writer Twitter makes me even more determined to Lemony Snicket it harder than Lemony Snicket Snicketed it, in terms of having a public identity. Possibly it was just a mistake to link so many artistic egos into a hivemind like this.
3) Semi-relatedly, a friend recently sent me into a tailspin by revealing one of the main creative contributors to indie video game The Beginner's Game was a member of the same niche forum that formed the backbone of my early online experiences. Once I stopped laughing ("it's like the online version of 'hey, I went to the same school as that guy'! only more like hey, I was part of the same cult* as that guy?") I did an idle search around and found this old combo blog post and comic from the other main creator, Dave Wreden, in which he lays out in compelling honesty his experience with the strange weight of fame and success in the modern age. In particular this sentiment struck me: "Each new receipt of [praise] does little more than set the new standard of my own satisfaction." What an easy trap to fall into.
(*This is a joke.)
4) A video meme has been going around for a while featuring various slapstick moments set to A Hard Knock Life, and alas, it tickles my funny bone enormously. This Scream compilation was one of the first I saw and still leaves me chuckling, so you can imagine my delight when I found the TMNT guys are on it too: for both the 2003 and RotTMNT generations no less!
