Firefly fic rec

[shadowscast]

I'm not writing much these days! (You'd noticed, right?)

So here's a plan I have for not being completely invisible in fandom—I'll make an effort to post a little rec whenever I read a good fic. Well, okay, whenever I read a good fic and then still have time and energy afterwards to write even a minimal post. Heh. Do not expect a sudden deluge of rec posts.

Today I read Air by ana_grrl. (I got the link off Crack Van, which is pretty much cheating, recs-wise. You forgive me, right?) It's a Firefly story—a short, sweet Kaylee/Inara slash fic set a little while after the movie.

Gosh I love Kaylee. And this fic captures her voice really nicely.

By the way, if you're reading my posts on Livejournal or Insanejournal, you might notice that I'm redirecting comments to Dreamwidth! So, yeah, this is what I've decided to do for now:

1) Crosspost completely (ie: Dreamwidth, Livejournal, Insanejournal).

2) For meta and general musings, redirect comments to Dreamwidth.

(Why? Well, in the event that any conversations happen in comments, I'd like them to be all in one place. The place where I have lots of icons to use.)

3) For fic (when I eventually get some more written), leave comments open everywhere.

(Why? Because I want to make leaving feedback as easy as possible. I mean seriously, if I could go to your house and do the typing for you while you lounged on your sofa eating grapes, I would.)

Comments

[From: shapinglight]

This is a good idea, and nice to see you posting. I must get around to learning how to cross post.

[From: shadowscast]

I must get around to learning how to cross post.

It's totally easy! Basically all you have to do is tick a "cross-post this entry" box at the bottom of the web posting interface. Before you do it for the first time, though, there's a bit of set-up necessary:

Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/ and be logged in. Under "organize" go to "manage account." Click the "other sites" tab. (Or skip all that and just click here!) Click "Add New Account" and do the obvious. :-)

On the same "other sites" page, there's a ticky box that lets you control whether to disable comments at the other sites when cross-posting.

[From: shapinglight]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a bash soon.

[From: yourlibrarian]

I can sympathize with the folks who want to consolidate comments on DW. I don't mind answering in more than one place, but I have already, several times now, had to refer to comments made at a different location. And, in fact in a recent exchange with shapinglight, had no idea at which post she'd read my comments.

[From: shadowscast]

Really I'm running a sort of experiment, because of course I'm not consolidating comments on the RL journal—so I'll have to wait and see whether that gets annoying!

[From: birggitt]

Hi! I wanted to said I'm here, too. And, as you decided to crosspost everything, I've friended you here, and will defriended (shees! I hate that word!) in LJ.
Is that ok with you?

[From: shadowscast]

Fine by me! (The truth is, I don't even keep track of who's friended/defriended me at LJ. And yeah, I've always found the term "defriend" a bit problematic—I'm glad the Dreamwidth folks decided to eschew it!)

Just to let you know, here at Dreamwidth I'll be giving you access in return, but not subscribing. I'm putting off subscribing in general until such time as I'm ready to actually read the journals I've subscribed to! (There's also no real point to granting access, since I haven't posted anything locked, but I decided that it looked kind of unfriendly to be sitting here with empty access and subscription lists!)

[From: birggitt]

That's ok, I know how hard is to keep with our friendlist sometimes. Hell, I was out of the net for 10 days, and now I'm 950 entries behind! *headdesk*
So, yes, I understand *laughs*