Brief fic update

[rivkat]

Next story delayed due to tragic glass of water-meets-keyboard incident. However, I hope to have a draft soon.

In the meantime, this is how I’ve been putting my older stories up on the Archive of Our Own:

RT: [copies and pastes url of LJ post; hits enter]
AOOO: [slurp]
RT: [goes to type in story name] … Oh, you figured that out. Excellent!
RT: [puts in rating, warning, tags] Now to copy the summary and notes. … Hey, wait. You—you automatically detected the summary and notes and put them in the proper places.
AOOO: [smug silence]
RT: How did you do that?
AOOO: [smugger silence]
RT: Are you—are you watching me?
[pause]
RT: Well, great! I don't suppose you can, like, just take the top-level URL of my site and suck all the stories in at once?
AOOO: I'm sorry, Rivka, I’m afraid I can't do that right now. But I'm working on it!
RT: [wonders about Turing tests]

Also, a brief, broken-Sam drabble in response to aerye’s prompt (Dean, blood, rosary, broken promises) is here.

And finally: am I crazy to think that the lyrics to “Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle” are perfect for SPN?

Comments

[meelie.livejournal.com]

I can't help listening to “Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle” and feel sorry for Toad! Maybe it's just a man-crush(toad-crush? plumber-crush?) but Mario is only rescuing him because he thinks he is the princess! TRAGIC!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

And he says the only words he knows how to say! That's kind of a bulletproof kink of mine, actually, the outside constraint that prevents change or happiness. It is so tragic!

[vivwiley.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a tragic carrot-juice meets laptop accident in your law school career?

I'm not sure about you and liquids near electronics....

Your RT-AOOO dialog is quite amusing (and maybe a little scary)

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It's hysterical that you remember that! This time was toddler-mediated, though as Z. said: you had a baby, a laptop and a glass of water; what did you think was going to happen?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking just that about "Thank You Mario"!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Great minds! And so do ours!

... seriously though, isn't it a little creepy? Do you think Sam POV or just general SPN?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Sam, definitely Sam. Also, Pearl Jam's "Garden" is very S4!Sam. Someone should get on that.

[annavtree.livejournal.com]

And finally: am I crazy to think that the lyrics to “Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle” are perfect for SPN?

Yes, but in the best possible way.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It's kind of spooky, isn't it?

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I shall have to try the slurping method again! (And also find the language to accurately describe the bug I keep encountering, as a report written in thingamajig and whatsit probably won't help much.)

Conclusion (but of course): Yay, AOOO!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It actually works best from my site, but because of how my site's set up the summary doesn't get automatically slurped. And I definitely want to ask for slurping/chapter improvements, because right now you can't slurp Chapter 2 and beyond, or at least I haven't figured out how. But it's still awesome.

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

this is the first i've heard of the archive. ooh, look at all the buffy fiction!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I have to put mine up! But the laptop incident will probably slow that down some.

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

sorry about the laptop. i'll be sure to check for your work later on.

looking over the stories, i noticed that there's no slash. i'd better read "about the archive," assuming there is a statement of intent. but then again, maybe i should read me some het. might do me good. *g*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

That...is not the archive overall, I can pretty much guarantee you! But since it's limited beta to test out the various features, so the stories will change a lot even in Buffy once it opens to broader beta.

ETA: If my Lex/Xander story isn't up, I'll get it up!

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

good, thanks for that. i'll keep my eye on developments there!

yes, i found your author's tab and see a crossover with lex and xander. ooOOoo and yum. i'll go read it now. :)

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

oh, that was FUN! i enjoyed it very much (except the eyeballs part *g*).

>"He looks like part of a complete breakfast," Buffy said.

haha!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Clark is definitely part of a complete breakfast. Dialogue is the most challenging part of writing Buffy for me.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what page were you looking at? Because to my recollection, the archive is about 90% slash ...

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i've been working my way through the Buffy series (for the first time) on dvd, so that's what i'm reading these days. i looked at the archive for that specifically and saw almost entirely het, with buffy pairings. since then, i've found other fandoms there with loads of slash. :)

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I hope it was keyboard-not-attached-to-laptop!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, laptop died. Hard drive may have been saved, but I had just backed up so it's only massive inconvenience rather than disaster.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I did that once (diet Pepsi rather than water). I never recovered.

wonders about Turing tests

[ender24]

nods, I bet there were totally turing test , ahhhahaha

AOOO is totally going to rock our fandom world, once its out of beta, even if I have to bug and bribe every single author I have ever known, to use AOOO slurping to get their stories up there :D

[barkley.livejournal.com]

That song is totally Sam!

[niciasus.livejournal.com]

RT: Well, great! I don't suppose you can, like, just take the top-level URL of my site and suck all the stories in at once?

Don't you wish it could be that easy? *gg*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

When I say they're working on it, I'm actually not kidding--but it is a ways off.

[niciasus.livejournal.com]

I bow down to the tech gods. Really it would be a fantastic tool to be able to load multiple stories at one time.

[holetoledo.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm being über creepy stalker girl because the comment box on your site won't work and I find it absolutely necessary to tell you how much I loved your and MustangSally's Heart's Filthy Lesson/Serious Moonlight/Changes/Spiders From Mars ficcies. I loved the history references and the yummy Cars and David Bowie song inserts and I wish that I could lock you in my basement and keep you. And I think I caught a History Of The World: Part I reference in the last fic and that just made me like you even more, and if you didn't intend to do that at all, then you're more awesome than I thought. The Spuffy was nummy and interaction/behavior stayed true to canon, and I loved your Rick and I wish that I could have some of those serotonin-loaded brownies because I've always experienced bad side effects with antidepressants. And I'm rambling and running out of useful and non-scary things to say so I'm just going to, uh *points at virtual door and runs for it*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm sorry that the comment box isn't working--I know I haven't been getting emailed comments, unfortunately. I'm really glad you like the stories. David Bowie was all MustangSally's doing, however, as was the History of the World. I could really use Rick's brownies on occasion myself (I really like the concept of weapons-grade chocolate). Feedback is always loved!