I'd been thinking of putting my fanfics up on my website for a while, but I'd kept putting it off, because "ehhhh, they're already on AO3, I have my fics on my Google Drive, it's not a huge deal."

Well, I blinked and all the sudden, Dreamwidth has to block all Mississippi IPs from accessing the site. And the itch.io situation...happened. Online censorship and related bullshit is having a moment...and AO3 is one horny website, and it doesn't invade users' privacy in the name of age verification, and doesn't seem likely to start.

Oh no. Oh no!

So, I finally put my fics up on my brand new writing page! It's bare-bones for now (thanks in part to the fact that I have two [2] fics I wanted to archive), but I really just wanted to get it up. If I waited to launch it until it was perfect, I'd probably put it off for way too long. Better to be imperfect and out there, considering I can update it whenever!

If you'd like to start your own fic archive, check out "How To Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just 10 Easy Steps" by Melannen. It'll walk you through the process of making a super-simple archive, for free!

Happy Banned Books Week, y'all!
I had this big intro post planned out in my head but now that I'm actually on the "post an entry" page I've totally frozen up. But I'll try to hit my main points that I can remember.

Basically, Dreamwidth seems kind of cool, and having a very casual blog might motivate me to write more and to share my writing more. I like the idea of being a published novelist someday, but in order for that to be a possibility you have to write things so you can be good-ish at it. Also it could be good for my brain to think through ideas and make them vaguely presentable in the form of Posts. And who knows, maybe I'll even make some Online Acquaintances. (I used to have those back when I used Instagram, and it was kind of awesome, but then I became an indie web bitch and I couldn't put up with the messy parts of Instagram anymore. [Well it's more complicated than that but that's a different story.])

I kinda tried to talk myself out of making an account on here, like "you have to do more lurking until you're sure this is the Perfect Place for You" and "oh it would be so much more eco-friendly if you coded your own blog". My brain is weird. Luckily if you delete your account on here, eventually it'll be gone and the username will be free again, so I can be like "I'm just trying it out, if I don't like it I can just delete my account and nobody will be worse off." I'm sure you're reading this and thinking, "Lu, are you okay?" and the answer is "not exactly!" (I have a therapist, I promise.)

Anyway, please stick your fingers through the bars of my cage (subscribe to my journal), especially if you're one of the two or so other people on this site who like Chonny Jash. I'll try to make the other posts less rambley than this one, but no promises!
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