Hi, everyone! I'm atamascolily on DW, AO3, and tumblr! I'm currently focused on Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but I have also written fic and meta for a wide variety of fandoms, including Star Wars (especially Legends).
In preparation for this challenge, I have spent the last two weeks collecting various meta about Puella Magi Madoka Magica I've posted to tumblr and archiving it on AO3, which you can find here. It is extremely image heavy and all of the images are still only hosted on tumblr for the moment, but it is much easier to locate and download in this format than scattered individual posts, so I feel it still represents an improvement over the old system, and I can easily update as necessary.
Some observations:
-I am impressed at how much even short posts add up over time. This was much longer than I expected it to be in terms of wordcount.
-Archiving can be tedious, but there came a point where I really got into the groove and felt excited about the process, which was refreshing.
-This was one of the first archiving projects where I did not feel a need to rewrite/correct my old work, which sped up the process immensely. Perhaps that's because most of this writing is fairly recent, or perhaps I've just become more relaxed about letting things be what they are and moving on. Either way, I appreciate it.
-I struggled with how best to organize this, and ended up going with loose conglomerations by themes rather than chronological order of posts or chronologically by canon events.
-Because this is a multi-chapter collation, chapter titles are the main method of organization, so every title must be simultaneously descriptive and succinct. There's always Control + F for searching the whole document if people really want to find something specific.
-I decided not to do image descriptions except in a few key cases, because most of the time, I am already describing the image in detail in the text itself.
-Once again, I cannot stress how much the perfect is truly the enemy of the good--being able to say "good enough" is an important skill and is what made this possible!
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In preparation for this challenge, I have spent the last two weeks collecting various meta about Puella Magi Madoka Magica I've posted to tumblr and archiving it on AO3, which you can find here. It is extremely image heavy and all of the images are still only hosted on tumblr for the moment, but it is much easier to locate and download in this format than scattered individual posts, so I feel it still represents an improvement over the old system, and I can easily update as necessary.
Some observations:
-I am impressed at how much even short posts add up over time. This was much longer than I expected it to be in terms of wordcount.
-Archiving can be tedious, but there came a point where I really got into the groove and felt excited about the process, which was refreshing.
-This was one of the first archiving projects where I did not feel a need to rewrite/correct my old work, which sped up the process immensely. Perhaps that's because most of this writing is fairly recent, or perhaps I've just become more relaxed about letting things be what they are and moving on. Either way, I appreciate it.
-I struggled with how best to organize this, and ended up going with loose conglomerations by themes rather than chronological order of posts or chronologically by canon events.
-Because this is a multi-chapter collation, chapter titles are the main method of organization, so every title must be simultaneously descriptive and succinct. There's always Control + F for searching the whole document if people really want to find something specific.
-I decided not to do image descriptions except in a few key cases, because most of the time, I am already describing the image in detail in the text itself.
-Once again, I cannot stress how much the perfect is truly the enemy of the good--being able to say "good enough" is an important skill and is what made this possible!