March Meta Matters Challenge, First Writing Prompt!

[yourlibrarian]

Hello everyone! It's check-in time again to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) Are you having internal debates about what content you're considering moving versus not copying over?
2) Are you having any problems moving your meta?

It's also time for your first writing prompt! Can you write some new meta based on old meta you've come across? This could be:

* an update to what you wrote before
* current you is arguing with former you about your ideas
* taking the same idea and applying it to a different fandom
* expressing some of the same ideas in a different format

Whatever approach you take, see if an older work you've been rehousing can be a jumping off point for a new work.

Writing new meta this month is optional. If you do write something though, share a link to it in a future check-in post!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

So, I rewrote my first meta post over at AO3 and was delighted to get some comments as well as kudos :)

In reviewing another month of posts, I came across something I was iffy about. I had done transcripts to a number of con panels over the years, both for fandom specific cons and for Writercon. But while it's certainly fandom oriented and a form of fan labor, it's not meta because I'm not discussing any of that content.

I also came across a concert review and, after a few minutes, realized it was not different than reviewing a TV episode. So I'm going to tidy it up and get that posted, perhaps later today.

[wheatear]

1) Yes, there's some stuff that's a bit too idiosyncratic or just plain old and out of date so I don't think it's worth copying over.
2) Not so far! It's all going pretty smoothly.

Also I didn't realize this was going to be the first writing prompt but coincidentally this is exactly what I did with the meta I posted today about the problem with special protagonists. I originally wrote about this topic in 2013 but the examples are old so I scrapped most of it and wrote something new based on the season 12 finale of Doctor Who that aired last week since it got me thinking about that trope again.

[merryghoul]

Not having trouble moving over meta, but I have actually decided to not move over some of it because I felt I was accidentally being dismissive of part of the fandom I was writing the meta for. Maybe I can use the meta to spring off a shorter meta about a specific turning point for the ship I wrote it for, but IDK.

[alexseanchai]

I've been needing to explain my choices for trying to sort Miraculous Ladybug into chronological order anyway

(the first two seasons were supposed to be watchable in any order, but that is not true, it just means we don't know what the actual order is, and while the chronological order for season three is the production code order according to the creator on Twitter, this bore little resemblance to the airing order)

[nrgburst]

1) Yes! I just did it on my own journal, because I wasn't sure about posting meta critical of the canon. I'm leaning towards meh, do it anyway, AO3 isn't tumblr and people can read the tags before clicking in.

2) Also in my journal post: I've realized some of my meta seems out of date because it was written in response to earlier parts of a TV series/movie franchise and therefore seems incomplete because it ignores later developments. I've updated/expanded on one before posting, and made it clear in others that it was written several years ago and therefore only deals with S1/2 etc.

So in response to the writing prompt: hehehe already done, way ahead of you! :D

[eidolonlathi]

I finally found the time to transfer my second meta to AO3, which means all of my content that I just could copy over without any major rewriting is now moved.

Which leaves me ready to face this post’s prompt… writing new meta! I think first I will go and make a new post of character analysis from the smaller meta snippets I collected together. Once that’s done I have ideas to analyse a specific aspect of character interactions from a certain manga chapter.

I guess what’s important as of now is not to get lost in the pile of my smaller meta snippets. But to stick to one specific theme a time, finish said post and only once that’s done start with another one.