I have no idea what I'm doing

ORIGINALLY POSTED: 2003

Title: Penn & Teller Go Network (7/19)
Fandom: Penn & Teller Get Killed
Wordcount: 1100
Rating: T
Characters: Penn, Teller
Summary: The boys finally get their big television break. It'll make them famous, even if it kills them.

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( Penn & Teller Go Network )

And it's Weekly WIP time. Totally forgot.



Got some really good work done on the commission last night during stream. I've got some lamb in the oven and have nothing to do until 2pm, so I might watch the rest of Catch-22 and work on this some more until then. I wish the highlights were a little lighter, but I think my next lightest choice was white. And that always looks super awkward and gross, so no.



The goat got some really good progress on the sky the other night. I love that blue so much, and I feel like I'm going to go through so many skeins of it. I wish I could have found it in a cone, because it's going to be another Hawkeye. I can tell. And there's no getting around that I don't think. Oh well.



And finally, Kermit got some good work done on him too this week. I'm loving the greens in this, but I feel like between Kermit, the goat, and the horses, I'm going to be so over green for a long time. I sense a lot of green floss purchases in my future.

Someone linked to this Tumblr post a couple of days ago, and I have just spent the last two days applying it to about a million words worth of fanfic. One of AO3's biggest failings for me, of which there are many, is the inability to see where your readers are coming from. I don't need to know usernames of everyone who reads my fic, but it's always super weird to wake up to a wave of kudos and some comments from an obvious rec somewhere. Unless someone tells you who recced your fic, you're just kind of left wondering what the hell just happened.

The Tumblr post details how to use Google Analytics to fix this problem. I've always ever used it with sites that have built-in support, but I've never done it DIY like this. And it's surprisingly easy. Create a link in a way that it hides from AO3 (in this case, hiding it in an image tag), and put it in your fics. I can now see where clicks on every one of my AO3 uploads are coming from.

For those of you who keep clicking on ch21 of Midgard Legends, why? Now I'm wondering what it is about this particular chapter that got about 20 clicks today. lol

It's not completely foolproof. For instance, link clicks from a person's Tumblr, Twitter, or DW feed will return a result of Tumblr.com, Twitter.com, or Dreamwidth.org. That's because activity feed pages are unique to the person logged in, and the robot can't actually see the page the human on the other side of the screen is looking at. But if they click on a specific blog post or tweet, that URL will be be listed as the referral (unless the post has privacy settings on. Then it defaults back to the domain).

Another thing you'll notice, since you can't use javascript on AO3, is that pages without a self-defined label get funny when they're visited. You can tell it that your AO3 account is your site, and it will register clicks there, but it has a hard time actually giving pages on your account a name. There's probably a way to somehow embed that link into your page in a way that will make it work, but I'm too lazy to try.

But the end result is this is a thing that I've done. I'm too tired right now and I've already shut my stuff down, but starting tomorrow I'll try to upload one fic post here a day. Whether that's a one-shot or a single chapter of something. I want to get everything properly cross-posted. It's a lot of fic to work through, and may very likely take over a year at one post a day.

I woke up at 11am, thinking how great it is that I don't have to do a livestream today.

Then I look at the clock and it's 12:10 and I was supposed to have a video up ten minutes ago. Damnit damnit damnit

It's not working on Twitch, and I need to just accept that. I got fucked up by a promo last year, and have never bounced back from it. It's weird to think that a promo would hurt a channel, but it has, immensely. I have about 300 followers, and they all look bought, because not a single one of them has ever actually watched my streams.

What's worse is that this was an official promotion run by Twitch, as part of their creative spotlight thing. I got shouted out on one of their official channels, people came in droves to follow, and now when someone new comes to my channel for the first time, they see 300 followers and no viewers. I honestly think I have to start over at this point. There's no way to purge inactive follows, so I'm just fucked.

Streaming on YouTube isn't as nice, but I think it's a bit better there. I've got some things I have to film today, and then this evening, since I'm home alone and won't have to stop awkwardly, I'll do a stream over there and see how it goes.

Also, I've set up a new pseudonym on AO3. I'll be posting some old and abandoned WIPs there, just to have them available. I'll also probably move a few over from my main pseud, just to get them off my page a bit.

Title: Everything Changes
Fandom: Who Killed Markiplier
Wordcount: 4300
Rating: Teen
Characters: Wilford, Celine, Damien, Mark [Wilford/Celine, Celine/Mark, implied Mark/Others]
Summary:

Wilford thought Mark had made a mistake marrying his friend's sister. And maybe he did, but it's not the worst one he's made.

Or:

Wilford is fed up with everyone's bullshit and needs new friends.


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( Everything Changes )

Tonight, it happens. Game of Thrones ends, and we can finally move on to the next show that will build our hopes and dreams up, only for the show-runners to fuck over the audience in a brand new and exciting way. I remain, I think, the only person in the world who hasn't seen the leaks, so I'm going in blind. I want maximum disappointment tonight when it happens. I want to not see it coming when it's completely fucking awful. My fave is probably going to win and I hate it.

Also, I woke up with a sore throat. That's always fun. I don't think I'm ill, though. I think I slept too hard and didn't wake myself up snoring like I usually do, and now my throat hurts from that. I woke up on my back, which I must never do because I can't fucking breathe, and base my assumptions off this.

Still silence from the mods on the topic of apps. I had plans with another player regarding my app, and I'm dying from this wait. The window where we're both available has come and gone, I think. bah. EDIT: Finally went through! Yay!

Also, our internet has been awful lately. Cutting in and out, and when I try to stream, it just drops to zero. I think I'm being throttled. I may have to call them tomorrow and remind them that customers on business lines need that line to be available pretty much always if they want us to pay our bill. If I can't do my job, how am I supposed to make money? Goddamn.

I took a 'fic' down from AO3 the other day, because it's not a fic, and it was just kind of bothering me. But now that I took it down, my total word count dropped below 1M and I'm sad. I really liked seeing 1.1 million words written across my account. I'm about 80k short now. How sad. I took the work down because I wanted to rework it into a coherent fic, but my headcanon is so wildly removed from the rest fandom, and I don't really have a cohesive plot anywhere in the mess of stuff I've been posting, so idk. It's side-scenes from my RP (not RP logs; something that can be easily mistaken for fic), so it's one of those things that just goes on and on and on and on with no end. That's why I took it down, because it was just all kinds of awkward to have up, 100+ chapters with no end in sight.

Title: Midgard Legends
Fandom: Thor, Captain America, Hellboy
Wordcount: 3800
Rating: T
Characters: Loki, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Trevor Bruttenholm
Summary: While hiding out on Midgard to avoid responsibility back home, Loki begins to feel the pull of the Tesseract as it calls to him. After the usual methods fail, Loki resorts to a more unconventional tactic to get his hands on the weapon: he enlists.

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( Midgard Legends )

Apps should apparently be processed soon. Yay! One of the mods is getting a PhD or something, and has been MIA for about two months because of it. The others just aren't present anymore. So I guess that's what's going on there.

I haven't been sleeping fricking all month, because my husband has been looking for a new job after quitting his current one. I haven't been sleeping because I use CBD to put my ass out every night, and even though we're in a legal state, he's in an industry with federal oversight, so he needs to be clean. More and more places even in that position have quit testing anyway, but we didn't want to risk him applying at the one place in town that still did.

There's a place right across the street from our apartment where he applied. He walked in to talk to someone a few weeks ago, they chatted for about ten minutes, and then told him he'd hear back once his background check came through. So, we gave it about a week and they still hadn't called. He'd call every day, and was told the relevant person would call him back. He went in a few times, but she was never there. I'm thinking, great, he's being ghosted. Please put in applications at other buildings.

Yesterday, he walked over there earlier in the morning, rather than waiting until after lunch. He was gone about 10 minutes before he came back. Apparently he's had the job since the first time he went in, but the person in charge has just been in a position where the building is so understaffed, she's been too busy helping doing what needs to be done to be able to deal with the understaffing problem. No interview, no application. Background check as a formality.

And the place doesn't test. So yay! I slept last night! Now I'm just looking at my email and waiting for 1pm to roll around, because we're going out for lunch with somebody.