winterswanderlust  asked:

For the fanfiction ask meme: 9, 34, 47

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?
That I understand it? Seriously fandoms are kinda an elusive beast to me. I don’t know how to find fellow fans – what tags do they use? what event blogs are there? I want to join in dammit and I don’t know how! But I don’t know entirely how I worked it out but I’m here in Rumbelle land and it’s comfortable. I still don’t know everyone that I should and 99% of the time drama passes me by (my nickname is Captain Oblivious), so obviously I’m still kinda on the periphery somehow.

All I want from fandom is to be able to flail and chat to people who love it as much as I do. So what is best about the Rumbelle fandom is that I have made friends whom I can talk to about my passions 🙂

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?
Longest individual fic is The War Within at 71,905. Longest verse (multiple fics, same universe) is also War Within standing at 115,721.

47. Archive Of Our Own, Fanfiction.net or Tumblr – where do you prefer to post and why?
I’m old. I remember the days of posting in private archives/forums. Does anyone else remember proboards forums? I still technically have an account at ff.net but I haven’t posted there in years, not since before I quit fandom the first time over a decade ago. You know that tumblr post that goes around which says what internet generation are you? I’m the “I was there Gandalf!” hehe 🙂

I got to say AO3. It’s neater because it’s designed for fic posting, whereas tumblr’s more all about the reblogs and the conversation. It’s also much easier to upload than ff.net, unless ff.net has had an overhaul in the last 10 years? Anyway I find it easier to post and I just like the general look. So yeah AO3!