you'll see the sun come shining through

[lotesse]

meme from, like, everybody:

I currently have 75 works at AO3. Pick a number between 1 and 75 and I'll tell you three things I currently like about that story.

eta: so that this entry contains more than a meme - the more I hear about the Amazon Kindle Worlds mess, the more it reminds me of what I've read about the early days of the Pocket Books Star Trek tie-in novels, which I gather fans were initially excited about as a way to professionalize/monetize but later pretty much abandoned once the level of creative bankruptcy necessary for participation became clear. Plus ca change, neh?

Comments

[ithiliana]

13!!!

To the other stuff:

I'm going to make a donation to AO3/OTW out of the next paycheck because that's my first reasoned response to the Kindle thing--that we need to support the fan sites.

And I imagine that's true--I heard some great presentations on the Trek media tie in stuff in the 90s at Pop Culture--including how Paramount slammed down hard after the inadvertent release of Della Van Hise's novel that had some pretty clear slashy elements (and that there were some fan writers doing some tie-in with fanfiction elements). It's hard to know how much of that is unsubstantiated/overinflated rumors, though.

[selenak]

42, of course. :)

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

31!

I find myself hoping that Kindle Worlds will crash and burn.

[tripleransom]

54 of course, pls!!