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So I've figured out the work-around to post to FF.net...but apparently their alert system is totally broken. I had a couple of reviews posted up last night that I've yet to receive notice for. Very frustrating >:( (Lovely reviews, though! Anon commenters: if you leave me an email address or other way to contact you, I'd be more than happy to reply to you and/or answer any questions you have! I love chatting with fellow fans =) )

Over the weekend I went on a rash of community joining, mostly because I discovered there were some devoted to 80s-era nostalgia. So if you, like me, enjoyed a childhood in the 80s (and/or ~love~ 80s TV/movies/music), check these places out:

80s_icons |

80sand90sfanfic |

80srewind

There's also a "dead fandoms" prompt table challenge community, so if you write in a tiny/obscure fandom (or if you want to), check it out:

dead_fandoms

Also of interest ~

ironyjones has started a writing community at

awenish. It's one part critique circle, one part support group, and it's open to both original and fannish writers. If you're serious about your writing and want to improve any aspect of it, or if you enjoy working with authors in critique, check it out!

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:D I might have to join the 80s_icons one! Just a glance had me squeeing, lol.

Personally, I've been trying to find screencaps of both Golden Girls and Designing Women to make some of my own icons... but nothing. Or nothing of any use anyway. I can't believe it! Makes me sad.

I haven't even tried to upload anything on FFN lately - I was about to and then I heard about it going all wacky. But the alert system being off too is just annoying. *eyeroll* It seems like they're always trying to expand and do new things before fixing the old problems over there.

:D I might have to join the 80s_icons one! Just a glance had me squeeing, lol.

YES. It is so much love and win and awesome. There were some gifs at

80srewind, too, that definitely looked snaggable.

Personally, I've been trying to find screencaps of both Golden Girls and Designing Women to make some of my own icons... but nothing. Or nothing of any use anyway. I can't believe it! Makes me sad.

The

goldengirlicons comm has a couple of episodes capped, if you're interested. I can make caps, but it's a gigantic pain in the ass on my more-or-less obsolete computer *sigh* And you can always slum it like I did to make my KI icons and just cap YouTube videos! (Of course, your icons are much better than mine because I have shit graphics skillz, but still. I know there are GG and DW episodes up in full on YouTube...)

IDEK what's going on with FF.net. I'm just glad I didn't have a chapter of Stacy in Bloom to update, or else I'd really be mad!! Its times like these that make me want to post that story somewhere else, even though it'd be a gigantic pain in the ass because of its length...and I kinda like having all the readers of that fic concentrated in one place :P

Edited 2011-03-23 01:15 (UTC)

There were some gifs at [info]80srewind, too, that definitely looked snaggable.

Yup! I saw. Again - I totally need to learn how to make gif icons. ;) I did snag some of the bases over at the Golden Girls comm, although I'm not sure I'll use them. I do like having a wide range of screencaps to choose from. I'm picky like that, lol.

I was considering capping YouTube videos - I've been watching Designing Women over there lately. :D I just can't exactly what I want - I know that HD is out of the question, but it'd be awesome if I could pick an exact time stamp instead of settling on "close enough".

Like I said - picky picky picky! It's a problem. ;P

I kinda like having all the readers of that fic concentrated in one place :P

Exactly! As much as FFN drives me nuts, it's still the most visible place to post fic.

I do have an update to my drabble story to post, but I'm going to put it off until FFN sorts this out. And... use the technical difficulties as an excuse of why I haven't posted the next bit to my epic-length fic... for the past four months. That totally works and makes sense! :P

I just can't exactly what I want - I know that HD is out of the question, but it'd be awesome if I could pick an exact time stamp instead of settling on "close enough"

That's the thing, even when taking screencaps from DVDs - it's a pain in the ass to try to stop it at just the right moment! Icons are pretty forgiving, though, since they're just 100x100. Goodness knows the screenshots I used for my KI stuff weren't the best in the world, and they turned out okay!

As much as FFN drives me nuts, it's still the most visible place to post fic.

*nods* That, and if its just in one place, there's more of a chance that people will bookmark it and come back to it, even if they don't sign up for alerts or whatever. It's just easier all around. Plus, I like the fact that I can just upload my documents straight onto FF.net with minimal editing. People say its not user-friendly, but it's a helluva site easier than using any other archive out there!

I received a couple of alerts this morning, for my updated BSC fic and the SiB review, so maybe things are working out? I dunno. I want to post the second half of my BSC fic, but I'm also holding out on doing that until FF.net gets its shit together. I want to be able to edit my story summaries, dammit! :P

re ffnet For a number of people including Forthy myself and britedark we were last able to add chapters to existing stories using edit on 3/18. I noticed that silent scribe was able to add a chapter to Hooked on 3/21 and you were able to add a chapter to this story.

*nods* Its times like these that it's helpful to know of the existence of

ffdotnetrants. I was watching it until someone spammed it with porn *eyeroll* but yeah. The last three posts there have been about this glitch.

Let me tell you how weird it is to open up the newsletter's email account and see absolutely nothing, LOL!! (Though I could live without forthy's and Kanna37's constant updates.)

For FF.net, I found out that when you get the error message, if you replace the word "property" with the word "content" you can edit your stories. I don't know if that's the work-around you've found. It was really frustrating, though.

I'll definitely be checking out the 80's icon community.

:D

I cannot get to that page to change property to content.

When you click on the "edit" for your existing stories, if you get what I get, there is an Error Type 2 page. The url reads something like http://login.fanfiction.net/story/story_edit_property.php?storyid=xxxxxx

If you change it to http://login.fanfiction.net/story/story_edit_content.php?storyid=xxxxxx, it should take you to the edit page. At least it did for me.

Here's the solution, step-by-step. The only bad thing is, you can't edit the summary of the story, and no alert is sent out.

But, at least you can update, and hope someone wanders by, LOL :P

Thanks. It did work. Sorry about writing all over your page.

LOL that's okay! =) Always happy to help out a friend. Glad you were able to post again!!

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