Fic archive journals
Oct. 30th, 2006 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snorkackcatcherI've had a fic archive post on this LJ for some time now, with links to all the sites where I've posted HP fics, but have been vaguely thinking about creating a separate journal to archive a copy of them all (and any occasional "DVD extras" meta I might write about them) -- mainly so there's one 'site' I can point to that has everything, regardless of length or subject matter. Additional possibilities include tagging for cross-reference purposes, specific icons for types of fic and so on.
Does this sound like something worth doing? I know quite a few people have set up this sort of journal or site -- so to those who have (or indeed those who haven't), how have you found them to go in practice? Are they too much like hard work? Do people actually browse them? Is there a minimum number of fics needed to make them viable? Or are they just a pure vanity project? (I know, I know, they're naturally going to be a vanity project to some extent, the question is whether there's actually some value in them as well.)
Lyrics: The last one was Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin, from Led Zeppelin III in 1970, spotted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
a_t_rain. What I didn't know until I looked it up is that this is apparently a version of a 1939 Leadbelly song called Gallis Pole, which in turn is a version of a centuries-old folk song called The Maid Freed From The Gallows. Well I never.
Which leads quite nicely on to this one ...
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same! (1970s, recently revived)
Does this sound like something worth doing? I know quite a few people have set up this sort of journal or site -- so to those who have (or indeed those who haven't), how have you found them to go in practice? Are they too much like hard work? Do people actually browse them? Is there a minimum number of fics needed to make them viable? Or are they just a pure vanity project? (I know, I know, they're naturally going to be a vanity project to some extent, the question is whether there's actually some value in them as well.)
Lyrics: The last one was Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin, from Led Zeppelin III in 1970, spotted by
a_t_rain. What I didn't know until I looked it up is that this is apparently a version of a 1939 Leadbelly song called Gallis Pole, which in turn is a version of a centuries-old folk song called The Maid Freed From The Gallows. Well I never.Which leads quite nicely on to this one ...
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same! (1970s, recently revived)
