March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in 4

[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) How many works have you identified for future transfers, or have you now moved to AO3?

2) Are you having any problems moving your meta?

3) Did you write new meta based on the last post's prompt? Share it here! Or if you didn't, share a link(s) to a work that's now housed on AO3 that you'd like to get more eyes on.

Please don't hesitate to do self-promotion! Anyone participating in or following this challenge is doing so because meta interests them. So it's very likely someone would like to check out those works.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

So, the account review I was planning is still to some degree on hold. But it doesn't mean there's been no progress :)

I wrote a new meta post last weekend, which served as the first of 3 chapters over on AO3 that grouped together some fan video discussion from two years worth of posts. I have also now moved 4 concert reviews over there, three of which I'd never posted here. In fact, I have about 10 other music fandom files that were never shared here that I plan to move there. This is because my first one got excited comments the same day they went up with requests for more such posts!

I really wasn't expecting that, so it's certainly incentive to get the rest somewhere else besides my hard drive. So I'll probably be working on that for at least the next week or so.

So here's my link to share: Fan Videos as Canon Commentary (Mostly related to the Buffyverse)

[franzeska]

1) One AO3 work per day (which is multiple related Tumblr posts if I have enough time). And about a billion in a spreadsheet to choose from.

2) The only problem I'm having is not enough hours in the day to get to the formatting or the choosing of related posts that go together.

[yourlibrarian]

And about a billion in a spreadsheet to choose from.

Now that is organization!

And I hear you about the amount of time taken. I'm pleased with the stuff I've completed but I'm taking longer to work on things than I expected. I expected at least a post a day as well and it's definitely not going to work out that way.

[wheatear]

I've posted 14 works so far and I've got between 20-25 to go depending on what I decide to post. My plan is to continue adding one or two new works every day.

I've rewritten or updated a couple of works to reference Season 12 of Doctor Who: The problem with special protagonists and The nature of rivalry.

[yourlibrarian]

Sounds like great progress. And I've just taken a look at your rivalry post, will be leaving a comment there :)

[wheatear]

Thanks, and thanks for organizing this challenge as well! I'd never considered AO3 as place to host meta before.

[alexseanchai]

The second half here is kind of old meta retyped? (I know I posted it somewhere. Most likely in a reblog chain I haven't found 'cause I have a million Tumblr posts in that tag and I am not the OP on most of them.) The first half is a different spin on the same theme, sort of?

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Welp, I haven't done anything since last check-in, but in total I've crossposted 3 works now, and the most recent crosspost is my Kennedy Appreciation Post or, as I just renamed it, How I joined the People Who Don't Hate Kennedy Club (Buffy fandom, natch).

[yourlibrarian]

Looks like you're developing a following on your posts there!

[yourlibrarian]

I love your title, and your defiance in choosing it :D

I had a lot more demands on my time last week but fortunately this week is allowing me to get some more done. But hey, every post is one post more than before!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I mean, joining the People Who Don't Hate Kennedy Club is literally what happened. I have a membership badge and everything. *g*

And I think I'll have more time next week!

[alexseanchai]

there is meta in my comments 😸😻💗

[merryghoul]

Dropping by to link a meta by request: The Making of...ABED, Also Known as Filming Jesus (Community, Shirley & Abed)

[yourlibrarian]

Ooh, Community! ::clicks link::

[leahandillyana]

I haven't written anything based on my older meta, but I complained about fillers in magical girl genre and wrote about physical properties and cultural meaning of various gems the Steven Universe characters were inspired by, all found in my usual collection: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18208784

[yourlibrarian]

Although I'm not familiar with the canon, I found your discussion of the use of the gems to be pretty interesting. I remember reading speculation about the connection of the Infinity Stones in the MCU to members of the Avengers and while those long preceded the films, I like to think that particular representations were things the creators considered.

[elf]

Posted a handful of meta sources other than my DW - LJ, InsaneJournal, comms at DW.

Half of what I tried to import got an error message of "this work has already been imported." They hadn't. Sent off a note to tech support and imported those manually.

For the Livejournal entries, it tried to import the comments rather than the work itself, which it skipped past, apparently thinking that was the header. (Had to view source code and grab the appropriate parts to import as the main body text.)

AO3 apparently won't show lines on tables, at least not in the standard skin. Dammit.

Bracing for importing a long string of Tumblr posts as chapters.

[elf]

AO3 really, REALLY doesn't like Tumblr posts as chapters. (It doesn't like importing Tumblr posts at all, because they are a FUCKING NIGHTMARE MESS because Tumblr doesn't have a way to show one post on a page - so the importer grabs the entire page and you have to manually delete everything after the post in question.)

I suppose it's trying to grab the entire page for every chapter and it chokes on that. Dammit.

[yourlibrarian]

Ugh, that sounds like an utter mess alright :(

[yourlibrarian]

That's surprising about LJ, and not in a good way, since it was the site most designed for use in importing. Useful for commentfic or RPfic, I guess...

[elf]

AO3 does not like importing to chapters (it's buggy but usually functional) AND does not like importing from Tumblr (buggy and partially functional; those functions do not include chapter imports) so I wound up copy-pasting 34 chapters worth of content; bleh.

Open post in separate page; get title & date. Put those in the page for "add chapter" on AO3. Go back to Tumblr post; click "view source." Page-Down 7 times to get to the actual post contents. Copy that into the chapter section on AO3. Preview; adjust as needed; post.

Click "add chapter," repeat.

Homestuck Liveblogging from Act 1.

It's showing as a WIP, 33/34 chapters, although it has all 34 chapters.

[elf]

It's possible that whatever skin/formatting was on the page was scrambling things. I think when I used ?format=light, I got the main post; I forgot to do that for some of them.