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I always said I wouldn't be "one of those writers", the kind that deleted fics and shit no matter how bad or embarrassing.
Well, I say a lot of shit.
Starting some time in March I will be deleting a plethora of old fics. Basically anything from Weiss Kreuz and onward is safe. Everything else is up for deletion with some exceptions (Melee Academy will never be deleted).
Most likely anything from Archanea will be safe. Most of my Elibe fic (if not all of it) will probably be going. Most of my Zelda stuff will be going. Anything I deem "pure crap" will be going.
"Karu, what prompted this?" asks a disembodied voice.
Nothing really, I just decided to do it, and I've been mulling it around for a long time anyway, and now I have even more incentive to clean house. All of my fics are housed at Dearest Disclaimer, and those will not be deleted, because DD is meant to be a complete archive of everything I've done. It's getting off my FFN though because I don't want to look at these things anymore. It's a spiritual cleansing, if you will.
I don't know. I've been posting fic online since 2003, and most of those fics (in fact, all of them) are gone and I never regretted it. If you want to see how I've grown as a writer, you can read DD from beginning to end. I want my FFN to house things that I deem at least "presentable".
Yep. So. There it is.
"Are you taking things down to rewrite them?"
No.
"Are you replacing things you've deleted with other things from those fandoms?"
No. Anything I'm deleting is from a fandom I don't write for anymore and have no intentions of writing for again.
"What if a fic is popular?"
Read it on Dearest Disclaimer. My FFN profile is not a complete archive of my work.
"What if there are things you've written for me/someone?"
It's on Dearest Disclaimer. I crosspost everything. If you really want me to leave it up, I will. I probably will anyway because my gift fics often showcase some of my best writing.
But yeah that's about it. I figured I'd post somewhere about it so that, you know, no one thought that they got reported or that FFN deleted them or that your monitor/computer screen was acting up. Do not adjust your computer screen, everything is fine.
EDIT: I deleted some of the fics I absolutely couldn't stand any longer today, so if my FFN profile number looks like it's 16 numbers lower than it should be, you would be correct and deletions are the cause.
There are fics I am not sure about whether or not to leave them up, so I'll let them sit and if I get sick of them, I'll get rid of them.
Well, I say a lot of shit.
Starting some time in March I will be deleting a plethora of old fics. Basically anything from Weiss Kreuz and onward is safe. Everything else is up for deletion with some exceptions (Melee Academy will never be deleted).
Most likely anything from Archanea will be safe. Most of my Elibe fic (if not all of it) will probably be going. Most of my Zelda stuff will be going. Anything I deem "pure crap" will be going.
"Karu, what prompted this?" asks a disembodied voice.
Nothing really, I just decided to do it, and I've been mulling it around for a long time anyway, and now I have even more incentive to clean house. All of my fics are housed at Dearest Disclaimer, and those will not be deleted, because DD is meant to be a complete archive of everything I've done. It's getting off my FFN though because I don't want to look at these things anymore. It's a spiritual cleansing, if you will.
I don't know. I've been posting fic online since 2003, and most of those fics (in fact, all of them) are gone and I never regretted it. If you want to see how I've grown as a writer, you can read DD from beginning to end. I want my FFN to house things that I deem at least "presentable".
Yep. So. There it is.
"Are you taking things down to rewrite them?"
No.
"Are you replacing things you've deleted with other things from those fandoms?"
No. Anything I'm deleting is from a fandom I don't write for anymore and have no intentions of writing for again.
"What if a fic is popular?"
Read it on Dearest Disclaimer. My FFN profile is not a complete archive of my work.
"What if there are things you've written for me/someone?"
It's on Dearest Disclaimer. I crosspost everything. If you really want me to leave it up, I will. I probably will anyway because my gift fics often showcase some of my best writing.
But yeah that's about it. I figured I'd post somewhere about it so that, you know, no one thought that they got reported or that FFN deleted them or that your monitor/computer screen was acting up. Do not adjust your computer screen, everything is fine.
EDIT: I deleted some of the fics I absolutely couldn't stand any longer today, so if my FFN profile number looks like it's 16 numbers lower than it should be, you would be correct and deletions are the cause.
There are fics I am not sure about whether or not to leave them up, so I'll let them sit and if I get sick of them, I'll get rid of them.
2 beds of roses | bury me