Fannish 50 Challenge 2024: Post #9: 10th Annual International Fanworks Day

[ride_4ever]

Happy Tenth Annual International Fanworks Day to my Circle!

What are all y'all doing to celebrate?

Comments

[vivarocksteady]

It was a coincidence (or maybe not? Maybe subconsciously this spurred me) but I dug up and posted an unfinished fic from 16 years ago that I will never finish, but I still have a soft spot for. Even if nobody reads it, it was nice to read it again myself!

[ride_4ever]

"Viva's Fic Amnesty Collection on AO3"? Tell me about you creating a collection titled this way and how you decide which fics to put in that collection.

[vivarocksteady]

Well I didn't really want to call them orphaned fics. (Or "euthanized bunnies" which I also saw once and which threw me for a loop!)

I have dozens of years-long unfinished fics and most of them will never see the light of day. But there's two reactions I have when I remember or discover an old unfinished fic.

"Oh, THAT fic." (Derogatory)

"Oh, THAT fic!" (Laudatory)

So basically if I have the second reaction, and also the self-awareness to admit that I will never finish it, I guess that means it's a candidate to eventually be posted like this. I only have two abandoned fics posted, maybe one more day more will be posted when the spirit moves me!

[ride_4ever]

TYK for the response. At some point I'm gonna round up my unfinished-and-don't-expect-to-finish fics and -- inspired by you -- make a collection of them (and -- eeek! -- NOT going to call them "euthanized bunnies" which is clever but horrifying).

[ride_4ever]

Based on being inspired by how you've collected your unfinished and probably won't finish fics on AO3, I have created a collection that I'm calling "Ride's Hi Ho Hiatus Collection".

[vivarocksteady]

Aww, yay!