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I'm joining smallfandombang! After talking it over with some friends, I think I'm going to write something based around Nicolette and Zed at the BHI in Pale. I've got an angle on what I'm going to frame the story around.

This means that In This Economy will probably be put on pause for a while. Oh well. I'm planning on making the switch on October 1st, or after I can get chapter 8 up. We'll see.

A list that I'll probably be updating over time. There's a ton of different topics here, but generally this is about people.

a meditation on boundaries
Unit of Caring
Written Mar 7, 2015

Questing for Transcendence
T Greer
Written April 29, 2019

Unveiling
Seth Dickinson
Written 2019

Lessons from the 19th Century
T Greer
Written April 3, 2023

Forgiveness
birdblogwhichisforbirds
Written Jan 11, 2022

Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Written 2013

Ordinary People Do Terrible Things
Patrick Wyman
Written Jan 16, 2024

The blueheronteanook  is a fanfic community for Otherverse. It is separate from the Ao3 ecosystem because I wanted it to collect and encourage a certain type of content in a way that is infeasible to do on Ao3. Namely, more meta essays, more discussions, more canon character focus. Additionally, the organization behind Ao3 has been a dumpster fire lately and I want to have other baskets made to hold eggs in case this one breaks.

Dreamwidth was chosen as a platform because it is semi-familiar, is good at holding long pieces of text, and can take submissions from anyone with an account. It is better at communitybuilding, if people can be persuaded to come. It also has some downsides. Compared to Ao3, Dreamwidth is less user friendly, with worse tagging, discoverability, and ability to easily navigate multichapter works. Hopefully, that can be mitigated with some changes to the Tea Nook on the technical side.

Things that need to happen:

• Recruiting an admin/moderation team that is bigger than just me. It's about the size where that is now appropriate.
• When Pale finishes, run a fic event as a way to drum up interest in the site

Nice to haves:

• Finding some way to migrate the info in the pinned post, navigation links, intro, and all, out of the pin so that there can be more space to pin things for announcements. Possibly changing the header navigation to have dividers for fic, meta, events, and open threads. See here.
• Making entry headers show some indication that they can be interacted with when hovered over. Color change or underline with CSS?
• Possible change to the tag page to make it easier to look at tags without scrolling through a wall of character names that will only grow larger and larger
• Possible change to the tag page so it includes static text about how to search with more than one tag at once