.post of random: space/artword, poll, Finn

[aesc]

Yes, post of random!

The next challenge is up at artword, and is ASTRONOMY, inspired by NASA's photos of the day. In the manner of cosmic matter into a black hole, I have been sucked into the archives and have spent a lot of time wishing for a spaceship, and remembering when I wanted to be an astronomer.

Living in central Florida as I did, NASA was a big part of my life--lots of field trips, and shuttles or rockets going up were always news. My first clear memory of joy or tragedy beyond my family was when Challenger exploded in 1986; I can very clearly recall standing in the kitchen, watching the shuttle break apart on our tiny TV, and realizing this was something way past my previous experiences. My dream for the future is to live in a place with no light pollution, and a telescope. (Which explains a bit of why I wrote this for mcsmooch.)

Speaking of writing, as dogeared knows quite well, I'm working on the Epic Gay Seafaring Love of Viking!John and Monk!Rodney. It clocks in at 27,000 words, and with the entire plot roughed out, I'm on pace to finish it in a few weeks/a month. A couple parts are completely finished already. I've never posted something this ginormous before (BigBang doesn't count), so I was wondering how people like really long fic posted. Hence, POLL:

[Poll #1298150]

Also, I just took this and I love my silly black dog:



dogeared points out that Finn is asking "Whut r u doin?"

Comments

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

oh yayyyyy that story will be! I was not sure if it was underway or not. yaye. :D

I like when people post a link to an offline file with the story all on one page, and that way there is still a post on Lj we can easily comment to and experience toe community of reading. I think that when people do like Erin did recently, and post it to LJ in interlinked chunks AND add a link in the last post to the outside file, that's nice too: some people can read it all on LJ, which I guess is good if that's what they like, AND there are multiple places in the story where one can stop and feedback if one feels like it.. plus the handiness of one big file off site. (I have a feeling I am not explaining this clearly but I'm sure you know what I mean)

Deep down though, I'll take it anyway I can get it! I have grabby handses for fic. :D

<3

[aesc.livejournal.com]

WEE BLACK KTN!

Yay, thank you for the input! I think I may have to post on LJ, because I've found that I have a hard time reading fics the way eFiction (which I have on my site that I never update because I'm too lazy even to upload), but maybe I could make myself re-remember to code something in a readable format between now and when the story gets posted.

Man, I'm too lazy to upload things to an eFiction PHP archive. That's sad.

*is sad*