Jan. 4th, 2014

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Tonight I finally got around to sticking Fixation, and Other Stories up on AO3. I'd been meaning to do that for a while -- I formatted the files back in November, for goodness sake -- but I am not always very good at making intentions connect up to actual results. There are intermittent gaps and shorts in the requisite circuits, you know? But tonight I had the time and the spoons, so yay, more backlist is crossposted.

I do want to keep backing up my old fics on AO3. I suspect it will always remain an incomplete archive -- there are some things that are either too fragmentary or too silly/context-dependent for me to want to post them in a more public arena than my own journal -- but my AO3 fic list should eventually be more comprehensive than what I have up on ff.net. AO3 allows backdating, for one thing; it allows more fandoms and text formatting options than ff.net; it is somewhat less mired in black-box inscrutability; and finally, AO3 does not have a bee in its collective bonnet about second person POV. (Yes, I am still peeved about that idiocy.)

I should probably crosspost "The Way of the Apartment Manager" next. It's my longest story after "Secrets," and is probably still the thing I'm best known for writing, insofar as I am known at all. I did some preliminary work in that direction recently, which mostly involved copying the chapter summaries from ff.net to my personal files -- for various irrelevant reasons, I wrote the summaries as I posted instead of considering them an integral part of the chapters in question -- but I'll have to code in all the italics first. (Or just import the files from ff.net... but then I'd have to change all the scene dividers by hand, and strip out the notes and metadata, which is probably the same amount of work in the end, so. *makes face* I'll stick with hand-coding italics. I am at least used to that.)

And now to bed. :-)
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I think that either my local Chinese takeout place has switched to a new fortune cookie provider, or the cookie provider has switched up its choose-a-saying formula, because I very rarely receive actual fortunes anymore, and even more rarely receive complete WTF non-sequiturs. It's all aphorisms these days.

Which is not to say that the humor has departed. It has merely shifted form, and now works best when read in compilation. To wit:


On Choosing a Path in Life

1. Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll.
2. Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
3. It's time to get moving. Your spirits will lift accordingly.
4. Many a false step is made by standing still.
5. Life enrich from seeking, not from sitting.
6. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
7. Pick a path with heart.


On Living Mindfully

1. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
2. Moderate your appetite so that with a little you may be content.
3. If the world seems cold, kindle a fire to warm it.
4. It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
5. To conquer your flaws, you must first accept them.
6. It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
7. There are coincidences.



Advice we should treasure and live by. *nods solemnly*

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