[research, fanstuff] Drama week wrapup: research links at Pinboard now, Fanfic.me still unbelievable

[unjapanologist]

My apologies for throwing out no less than five not very cheerful posts in a single week. I promise to be less displeased with the world from now on. Just a few quick notes about the new location of my research and fannish bookmarks:

• My Diigo account still exists because it contains some collaborative bookmark collections whose new home is still being prepared. Also, there are a lot of links in various work-related locations going to that account, so I may end up just leaving it as it is. However, it will no longer be updated. My new primary bookmarks account is here at Pinboard.
• The research-related bookmarks link at the right and on my profile now points to http://pinboard.in/u:fanficforensics/t:phd, and the new RSS feed is here.
• Non-research-related links at the old Diigo account were usually private, including links to fanworks. I've decided to leave links to fanworks public from now on because I want to take more part in the fannish bookmarking fun - I only watched and never contributed on Delicious because keeping track of several different bookmarking accounts never worked out for me. So, there's suddenly a bunch of fic in my bookmarking account, but I expect that won't be a problem for anyone. People who follow this journal for the research updates will already be well aware of what fic is. The revelation that I read it shouldn't come as a shock. I'll be more careful about tagging bookmarks with adult content from now on.

I hope I can stick with Pinboard for a while. As long as its owner keeps sounding like he does in this blog post about the sudden fannish Pinboard migration, I expect I'll feel quite at home. Oh dear, that Pinboard/Fandom anthropomorfic is second on the popular bookmarks list now.

As for Fanfic.me, I updated yesterday's post and the copies of Fanfic.me-related pages with some extra info on Fansitepress.com, where Fanfic.me offers to host your "fanfic blog" for a price you're not going to believe (no, really not). Now I'm going to put this thing aside for at least a couple of hours and clear out my inbox.

Comments

[lizbee]

I'll be more careful about tagging bookmarks with adult content from now on.

I was sorting out my tags on Pinboard yesterday, and found I had labelled an Azula/Zuko fic "gen". I feel like I need to apologise to the cosmos or something.

[unjapanologist]

Oh, help. I just tagged all the fic and art with possible_adult_content, and now my brain is screaming at me to add possible_incest_too and no_seriously_watch_out and about a million other warnings. *paranoia spiral*

It's not like the professors actually read this journal... But still. Yeah.

[cathexys]

That was an utterly lovely, non-condescending post from the pinboard dude. Big kudos to him for both worrying about his old userbase and welcoming us all the same!

[unjapanologist]

It's reassuring all by itself that he's taking his old userbase into account like this. If I were a non-fannish Pinboard user, waking up to find the front page tag cloud full of Inception slash would have been a bit disconcerting at the very least. It would be like a fannish bookmarking service that gets a sudden and massive influx from, I don't know, people who concentrate on professional medical bookmarks. (I hesitate to say 'tech people' because I have the vague impression that there's a lot more overlap between the tech-talk set and fandom, with the tech people just being less aware of that than fans.)

[cesy]

Yeah, I liked the shout-out and consideration of the old userbase. It means he might treat us the same way in future if he gets another big influx from elsewhere.