March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in 6

[yourlibrarian]

Hello everyone! It's our last check-in before the challenge wraps on April 1.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) What's your favorite meta work you transferred this month and why?

2) Any road blocks you ran into in meeting your goals?

Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

1) What's your favorite meta work you transferred this month and why?

"Why We Need Thing" -- because he is a unique character with many differences, and I wanted to call attention to those aspects so hopefully more people will watch Wednesday and make fanworks featuring Thing.

I accomplished my main goals for this round. My event post is here so you can see what-all I did. There are a few extras from prompts here, and the board game post was fun when that came up as a recurring post theme.

2) Any road blocks you ran into in meeting your goals?

* Lack of time. I never have enough to do all the things I want.

* The archive sites I use have been pesky. Archive.fo went down, came back as Archive.ph. Wayback changed from archive.web to web.archive. But the old links still seem to work. Service has been patchy. I persist in trying to save things.


Thanks for hosting this fest. It has been awesome.

Re: Done!

[yourlibrarian]

Great to hear you got so much done! Yes, AO3 has been up and down the last week as well, so I imagine you're not the only one who was impacted this month.

[enchantedsleeper]

It feels like just last week I was commenting on the first check-in! Time is wild.

1) What's your favorite meta work you transferred this month and why?

Hmmm... It's a toss-up between my Harvard/Aiden quasi-ship-manifesto (FENCE comics) and an old post I unearthed about Squib/Pumkin from the web series Baman Piderman. Ah, nostalgia!

I only remembered yesterday that I had this WordPress blog where I used to write articles about various geek/fandom topics in the mid-2010s, and some of those definitely qualify as meta. So where I thought I'd run out of past meta essays to archive, I've actually got a handful more I can do! But I've now done the two key ones (the ones that are attached to a specific fandom, and are easiest to categorise as meta).

2) Any road blocks you ran into in meeting your goals?

I had to check back on my comment on the check-in post to remind myself of what those were, but I didn't set many - I successfully archived my FENCE meta, and my thoughts on drabbles. I didn't archive any vidding thoughts/meta, but those are really more along the lines of blog posts anyway. I do still intend to do them at a later date.

What I think is most cool is how much the meta page for my site has evolved just over the course of this event. I named it "meta and misc" originally because it was just bits of meta-ish writing and bits of fic planning/writing, but now it's much more meta-heavy and so I've changed the URL to /meta instead of /misc. I've also broken out the longer meta essays onto their own pages (which was overdue, but didn't feel worth doing when I only had one. Now I have four!)

And I'm really grateful that this event nudged me back into updating my archive, as well. Thank you very much for running it - I hope you all had a wonderful month!

[yourlibrarian]

It's not just you! The month went by fast for all that March is not a short month.

That's great to hear that you've rediscovered your old blog and will have more posts to relocate 🙂 And that you have enough to recategorize them \o/

So glad to have you joining us, and it's wonderful to hear the challenge has been helpful. ❤️

[yourlibrarian]

Great to have you take part, and congrats on meeting your goal!

I am usually pleasantly surprised when I re-read old writing as well. Maybe it's because that person makes a lot of arguments I agree with 😉