enchantedsleeper

*looks at date* errrrr

So, I guess May got away from me in a similar fashion to April ^^;

I spent the time doing some cool offline and online/creative things, so it's not like I haven't done things that I wanted to! I just didn't have the time for blogging that I'd hoped/anticipated. (Also, I think that some of my "less time" was due to making a concerted effort to fix my terrible sleeping schedule and stop being tired all the time, whereas normally I would have stayed up an extra hour or two).

However, that isn't to say I haven't been doing some Dreamwidth things! So, here's what I've been up to (and also some archiving stuff off the back of Archive April/general archiving thoughts).

Small fandoms ahoy

From 4th-15th May,

small_fandoms held the 2024 Small Fandoms Canon Promofest, and I wrote two small fandom promos, one for The Strange Case of Starship Iris and one for Questionable Content! Even though I'd previously written a pimp post for Starship Iris for

smallfandomfest, I did an all-new post for the promo, because Small Fandoms' format is different enough that I couldn't really re-use it.

I've also just seen that Small Fandoms is holding a Small Fandoms Surprise Scramble from now until the end of the month, so I'm definitely going to be scrambling to make things for that! Hmm, do I have any drabble ideas left over from the Drabblefest that I could write...

Speaking of drabbles - almost a month later, I'm still feeling Some Kind of Way about Marianas Trench's A Normal Life and the accompanying lyric video (blogged about here) and I was thinking about nominating it for Yuletide come October. However, that's so far away and I learned from the Small Fandoms Drabblefest that instead of waiting until Yuletide to do cool things for tiny fandoms, I can write drabbles for them whenever!

(Obviously not just drabbles, but it's a lot easier to think up a bite-sized fic idea and make a drabble than it is to see through something longer. I started a longer fic for one of my Drabblefest fandoms that's still a WIP...)

So, I hopped over to

tinyfandomflash (so many great small fandoms comms :D) for some of the latest prompts, and wrote a drabble for prompt #21, Lightning Strike: But what about all those voices in the night?

Finally, I submitted some prompts to Round 35 of

smallfandomfest (the prompt submission period ends tomorrow!), and I have my eye on an older prompt that I'd like to claim and fill! I've also signed up to pimp FENCE in the most recent round of small fandom pimping.

Personal fanworks archiving

I was going to do a separate blog post on my Archive April achievements, but I chronicled most of them in my Archive April progress update, though I did improve my site's CSS styling and added a bit more to the Fanart page before the month ended. All in all, I successfully archived 10+ works if you count my drabbles individually, but I did have plans to do more, such as archiving my fan comics and fanvids.

I also did some bonus archiving in the form of some more drabble thoughts that I posted to Mastodon and then archived to my ongoing SquidgeWorld collection.

Over on Pillowfort, versegm has set up a webring for Pillowfort peeps who have a personal site, which I would really like to join! Previously, I hadn't submitted my site to any fic archive webrings, directories, etc. because it barely had any fanworks on it. Now, it has more, but I still feel like it's very "under construction" with empty pages and fandom sections, poor site navigation, and a relatively small fraction of my fanworks archived; so I don't really link or promo it anywhere.

The problem is that I only occasionally have time to do site work, and when I do, it'll take me a couple of hours just to work on some code improvements, or add a few fics. There's no rush, but I'm sensing that if I wait until my site is less "under construction", I'll be waiting a really long time. (I have more than 140 fanworks in my list of all the works I've ever published (and that doesn't actually include meta, since I didn't think I had much to speak of when I made it), and the list is being added to whenever I finish something, so me trying to archive a significant portion of my works is also something of a moving target).

So, I'm thinking about whether I should set a goal for a "minimally acceptable archive", so to speak. Maybe fully archiving 4 of my early fandoms plus improved navigation? Though, I'm also wondering if I should start in on the other end and do some more recent fandoms as well, so that my newer work is represented and not just the earliest stuff.

Many of my fandoms only have 2-3 works, so it shouldn't take that long to "complete" them.

I'd also like to make a little button graphic for linking back to my site - can anyone recommend a good resource (or artist!) for pixel graphics? 👀