I'm going to make it all the way to TUM! If you can help me get to at least LOL, you'll make my Halloween. XD

I'm checking out TrackBear.app and was looking at an old goal I'd imported from NaNo and saw this:

yeah that feels right

Creating a personal fanfic archive using Calibre, various Calibre plugins, Firefox Reader View, and an e-Reader / BookFusion / Calibre-Web

A few years ago I started getting serious about saving my favorite fic (or just any fic I enjoyed), since the Internet is sadly not actually always forever when it comes to fanfiction. Plus, I wanted a way to access fanfic offline when wifi wasn't available. Enter a personal fanfic archive!

There are lots of ways you can do this, but I thought I'd share my particular workflow in case it helps others get started. Often it's easier to build off someone else's workflow than to create your own!

Please note that this is for building an archive for private use -- always remember that it's bad form to publicly archive someone else's work without their explicit permission.

This is going to be long, so let's add a read more!

How to Build Your Own Personal Fanfic Archive

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @mrv3000 like, last year, but we'll just pretend that isn't true!

1. how many works do you have on Ao3? 53

2. what’s your total Ao3 word count?

It's about to be higher, but currently 236,415 (89k of that is co-written with @machawicket, though, so I can't claim it all!)

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Arrow, Stargate SG-1, Bones, Timeless, Pitch, and a few others that are sort of incidental to the main ones.

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

I'm pretty sure all of these are going to end up being Arrow fics (Genie's note: ha! I was right!):

Our Version of Events falling in reverse Chips and Dip (With a Side of Sparkle) Cabin in the Woods The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content)

5. do you respond to comments?

I try really hard to!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I was going to say Forfeit (SG-1), but honestly I think it's a toss up between that and time's right but the clock's wrong (Arrow).

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

This one's tough, because my angst to happy ratio can be pretty hight in my fics, but in terms of, like, purest fluff, probably How the Day Sounds (Arrow).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have, especially in the Arrow fandom because it's probably the biggest (and therefor has the most potential for toxicity), but it disappears fast.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

LOL yep! I do write explicit smut, but even that is pretty vanilla (which is not to say that's bad, and maybe one day I'll write kink, but I haven't yet).

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I imagine a lot of crossovers, but I rarely write them. The only one I've done (to my recollection) that didn't involve characters from different shows but still in roughly the same universe was The Male Prostitute in the Club With His (Word Redacted Due to Content) (Arrow), in which Oliver Queen met his doppelganger, Jason from Hung. It was ridiculous, and fittingly, my first fic in that fandom.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. Honestly, for the most part my fic is too short for most people to bother with, I think.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? 

I wish!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Absolutely! There's obviously Our Version of Events with @machawicket, and I wrote a few SG-1 fic with @danveresque back in the day. I really enjoy co-writing, although I'm almost always the one slowing us down.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Sam/Jack from Stargate SG-1. It was my first love and the only one I come back to over and over.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I am reserving my 5th amendment right not to incriminate myself.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I like to think I'm pretty good at characterization and nailing a character's voice. I also enjoy writing dialogue, although I don't know that that makes me good at it. I'm also pretty good at hitting the emotions I want to hit in a scene and also writing emotional complexity.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Writing consistently and to completion is a big weakness -- a result of poor executive function skills and high perfectionism, ha. I'm also great at coming up with big sweeping plots and terrible at executing the details of them. And, until recently, I clung a little too much to thinking fic needs to be realistic and grounded -- now I understand that fic can be as ridiculous as I want, because what matters is how much fun I have writing it and whether it gives me the serotonin I'm seeking (as @mrv3000 put it).

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I'm incredibly impressed by folks who might be polyglots who can do this. I, sadly, cannot.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I honestly don't remember! I have a notoriously bad memory of my childhood and I got into fandom very early. But the first fandom I published a fic in was Stargate SG-1.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

This is like asking who my favorite child is. I don't think I can answer with just one! Favorite funny fic is probably Cabin in the Woods (Arrow). Favorite fic where I just slid easily into the character's voices? Probably the devil's right there in the details (Timeless). Favorite (and only) remix? reclaim (the destiny rules remix) (Stargate SG-1). Favorite angsty fic (of which there are maaaany), probably god himself would call it justice (Arrow).

I'm trying to remember who recently I know has been writing -- I'm going to zero-pressure tag these just a few people, but if you're writing, consider yourself tagged! @annerbhp @mylittleredgirl @sharim28 @joracwyn @starrybouquet @anretc @tielan

One of the great things about putting together your own personal fic archive is that you can an absolutely unhinged list of AO3 tags

Stargate SG-1 Fic: a goddamn blaze in the dark (1/1), Explicit

Sam/Jack. Again, not a new fic, just never added it here. :)

Listen. This was not supposed to happen. It was supposed to be a brief and porny one-shot. And then it turned out to be not so brief and not so one-shotty. Then it got long and really porny and somehow feelings appeared? And now it's a whole thing. I'm pretty grouchy about it.

This isn't important yet, but it might be helpful to know that although there's still an age gap between Sam and Jack, I've had to age her up a few years.

Many, many thanks to @sharim28 for again being a fabulous beta. Any remaining mistakes or nonsense are mine.

Oh, and the title comes from “ivy” by Taylor Swift. Don’t worry, nobody’s married and cheating or anything in this story as in the song (that’s my least favorite trope, actually). I just liked those bits of lyrics. :)

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Sam walks into the bar to find it warm, loud, and bustling, and nearly walks right back out again.

She makes herself stand for two, three, four quick beats of her heart until the feeling of being pressed in from all sides and the urge to run passes. Sam knows and likes Janet well enough to brave going to Janet’s birthday party the very same week she’s moved to Colorado Springs, but she hadn’t really thought it through when she’d agreed to attend. Surveying the crowd of people now, though, all of whom look totally comfortable and thrilled to be in each other’s company—she’s seriously questioning her own judgement.

Trying to move into her new house, to prepare for a job she could never even have dreamed of (not even during the hazy half-realties induced by drugs and ever-present pain) is difficult enough. What had she been thinking, trying to add meeting new people to that already long list of challenges?

That’s the thing about Janet—she maneuvers and finesses until a person agrees to things they would normally recognize as ridiculous, and by the time they realize they’ve been gently but expertly steamrolled, it’s too late.

Stargate SG-1 Fic: reclaim (the destiny rules remix) (1/1), Teen

Sam/Jack. This isn't actually a new fic. I'm updating my Tumblr fanfic page and realized that I'd never actually put this on here, so here we are!

@amaradangeli asked me what I would write if I could make an alternate ending to Forfeit. Well, here it is. Thanks for waiting an embarrassingly long time for it. <3

Because this fic is very different from Forfeit, I'm considering it a remix. You don't have to read Forfeit to understand this one (and mind the warnings of that fic if you do decide to read it).

Many sincere thanks to @sharim28 for the beta. She's wonderful. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

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She’s supposed to be on vacation by now.

She’s been thinking about a trip on her motorcycle for a month already; her plan is to ride into New Mexico, or maybe Utah. She hasn’t decided yet, but she’s got almost two weeks and this time she doesn’t want to stay at home.

The General asked them to meet in the briefing room at the last minute, and it had only taken minutes for Daniel and the Colonel to start fidgeting and checking their watches. She thinks that Daniel has a conference in Chicago he’s anxious to attend (although she suspects that, like her, he's just ready to get out of Colorado), and she guesses that the Colonel is going fishing. She's stopped asking, and he's stopped telling her.

She’s just about to clear her throat pointedly at the Colonel’s incessant tapping when the General walks into the room with a folder in his hand. The look on his face as he sits has her mentally kissing her Indian goodbye.

For those of you who were looking for the whole thing in one place.

Beautiful new icon made by @katetrish! She did a great job and was a genuine pleasure to work with.

Also, texture on the header I’m now using was done by @normalisjustafairytale (from one of their very pretty Oliver/Felicity icons, reblogged earlier!).

@holdouttrout replied to your post “My friend”

I’m glad it wasn’t just me. I had an awful sinking feeling, and was like, enjoy that 100k words I guess?

Ugh.

My friend

I know you genuinely mean well, but replying to a thing in which I say that I can’t seem to write anything at all with “haha I know how you feel, I couldn’t finish my book so I went and wrote 100k words on something else!”

Is like, not at all comforting. At all. It makes me feel worse, actually.