5 things for the internet

[melannen]

1. I have signed up for intoabar again! With Katharine Dunleavy from Jupiter Ascending and Snarkout Boys, The Librarians, Steven Universe, and Saga as my four possible fandoms. There is no possible way I will ever regret this.

2. I also did indeed sign up for Camp Nano for April. I will probably regret this. So far I mostly just want to make more lanyards.

3. First day of class went well! I think it will be fun and not as exhausting as I was afraid, mandatory group project aside.

4. Other than that I have been getting basically nothing done, as predicted. lalalala.

5. sathinfection posted a writing meme on Tumblr where you get to be your own worst critic. I kinda feel like on the one hand it would be good to actually get some of that out there and talk about it instead of being a secret shame? But on the other hand once you go down that rabbit hole it is hard to come back up. So here I will post it on DW for answering in comments instead of smearing it all over my tumblr dash:

If you want to see me do one of these, leave a number in a comment and I'll answer! If this feels too dangerous to you do not click the cut.

1: Go to your oldest work online and find the most cringe-inducing section.
2: What's the most embarrassing porn you've ever written?
3: Most embarrassing drawerfic.
4: Laziest ending.
5: Worst beginning.
6: Send me one of my own fics to flame.
7: Rank your top five worst fics.
8: How do you disagree with your AO3 stats page?
9: Send me one of my own fics and I'll write the worst comment imaginable for it.
10: Write a parody of your own style.

Comments

[isis]

Oh, actually I like those ideas for self-critique! I am curious as to what you consider your top worst fics.

[melannen]

This was easier than I feared! When I went to AO3 five stories floated to the bottom really naturally, and they're all fairly old, so maybe I actually am getting better...

For goodness' sake don't click any of these links or you'll be sorry.

1. The Yuletide fic that I compeletly punted because it was supposed to be the beginning of something longer but I didn't start writing it until LITERALLY 2 hrs before deadline and what came out made 0 sense and went nowhere and I still owe that year's recip something less sucky.

2. The remix challenge fic which I haven't actually re-read since I posted it because the shame is so heavy so possibly it's better than I remember but I remember it failing pretty hard both as a remix and as a story.

3. The Harry Potter wip I haven't added to since 2003 and is so soaked in CC-era FAP-derived references that it's both shameful and incomprehensible at this point, which might be defensible except I only ever lurked on FAP so I didn't even know anybody who would get the injokes.

4. The one that's sort of half songfic except it's also full of unnecessary Tom Stoppard references and high-school solipsism OMG SO FREAKING PRETENTIOUS I COULD DIE

5. My first srs attempt to write srs D/s fic and I srsly had no idea what I was doing.