enchantedsleeper

It's been a while since I checked in on SquidgeWorld (not since I last posted a work there at the end of July), so I was really pleased to find that they've implemented some new things since I was last there, including nonbinary relationship categories! That's an additional three relationship categories (alongside the existing F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, QPR, Gen, Vs./Antagonistic, and Other): F/NB, M/NB, and NB/NB.

They don't have icons designed yet, so I'm looking forward to when that's implemented because I like having a full icon set (or as full as is applicable) on my works. (Plus, right now it looks like the works where I've tagged only a NB relationship category aren't tagged with any relationships 😅)

I didn't have as many works to re-tag as I'd expected, partly due to not having archived my full set of works over at SquidgeWorld, but also because a lot of the nonbinary characters I've written about in fic have not been in romantic relationships in those works. However, I archived an additional Starship Iris work for a threesome ship (really, it's more of a pre-threesome, but I'm counting it) that I'm fond of, but that I haven't written into any further works, and it's made me think about revisiting that ship, something I haven't considered in a while.

I also learned that SqWA had an influx of a couple of thousand new users in mid-September, which is exciting! I hope they stick around. Right now my M.O. for cross-posting anything to SquidgeWorld is a bit haphazard; it's somewhere I put up works that I haven't published to AO3 for whatever reason, plus some small fandoms stuff, and I also like to post things there that I can categorise in ways I can't on AO3, like the NB relationships and QPRs. Still, I'd like to add other works there, but I can't decide on a rationale (and I don't want to cross-post absolutely everything). Decisions decisions.

Speaking of archiving, I got some good stuff done on my personal fanworks archive during Small Web September, but I really need to get back on the horse and archive more works there, especially since I now have my fanwork page CSS sorted to my liking.

*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).
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And just like that, it’s the end of March! The year is really whipping past, and I’m pleased that I’m managing to take part in events like March Meta Matters and the Small Fandoms Drabblethon, but I always wish they could last longer xD Still, I’m really happy with my participation in March Meta Matters! Since my last post about the challenge, I have:

• Archived my various thoughts on drabbles on SquidgeWorld (DW was having some downtime when I felt inspired to archive these, but I think SqWA is a good home for them! I like being able to use chapters for different dates – or date ranges)
• Archived two new meta essays from a WordPress blog I’d forgotten about: one on the gender-ambiguous pairing of Squib/Pumkin from the web series Baman Piderman, and one on the second Fantastic Beasts film
• Split off the longer meta essays on my site onto their own pages
• Renamed the “meta and misc” page URL from /misc to /meta to reflect its much heavier meta emphasis; I’m thinking of moving the misc stuff to sit with my fic, since it’s more fic-related, or maybe just giving it a page of its own
• I also re-ordered the Site Updates log on the Homepage to reverse chronological order so that the most recent updates are visible first.

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In my recent deep fic writer asks post I mentioned that I was embarking on a project to archive all of my created fanworks (no matter how old and cringey) on a personal archive website.

Since I wrote that post, I've spent a good chunk of very fun hours creating and tinkering with the archive site in question, and although I'm far from done, I'm excited enough to share the site so far (enchantedsleeper.space) and write a bit about what creating it has been like. It's going to be on the long side, so buckle in...

How it started

I've been following the trend of "web 1.0" and "indie web" design for a little while now, looking at the fun websites and shrines that people have been making, and wanting to try my hand at making something myself. I didn't really know what to make it about, though. Back in the days of Actual Web 1.0 (which I just caught the tail end of, since I first got online in 2002) I did have a gloriously tacky personal website with a free web building service whose name is sadly lost to the grave of my old AOL bookmarks; but this time around, I wanted to do more with it than just make a Me Website.

I had an idea to make a kind of tech musings site with a little archive of retro "stuff" that my husband and I have hung onto - old gaming consoles, my beloved 1990s Psion - and I'm definitely not ruling that out, because it's still a fun idea, but it was just sort of added to the backburner of "Things I might get around to eventually".

Then I saw melannen 's how-to guide on creating your own personal fic archive, and I thought "Damn, I want to do that." Partly it was seeing the cute things that other people had done with their own fic archives and reading their enthusiasm towards simple, home-made HTML sites. The other part was that earlier this year, I embarked on a "just for fun" project of making a spreadsheet that listed all of my published fanworks, of any kind (mostly fic, but also fanart, fancomics and fanvids). It was fun tracking down my various works and seeing them all laid out, charting my migration from Fanfiction.net to AO3 and from fandom to fandom.

I've never archived them all in one place - I know AO3 exists to archive things, but I've always hesitated to add some of my oldest, cringiest works to my profile there, preferring to let them sit in obscurity at the bottom of my FF.net author page. But a personal fanworks archive felt like the right place to finally have them all in one place - and the idea of choosing my own categorising and tagging conventions was pleasing.

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