#ao3 backup

[wingedquill]

Okay I was able to briefly get on AO3 and download all of my Stranger Things fics. In case it goes down again and y'all would like some reading material, here's a drive folder with all of them!

Fics contained therein:

Count to thirty. Breathe twice. Repeat -- Steddie. Eddie saves Steve's life after Billy tries to kill him post season 2. WIP, 14 chapters, 40K words

I was born when they took my name -- Steddie. my take on the "Steve is from Hawkins lab" plot, set in season 4. WIP, 16 chapters, 45K words

writing a book on how to stay conscious (when you drown) -- Steddie. You know that brand of immortality-specific angst where they are put into a horrific situation where they can't die and left there? I.e. Quynh from the Old Guard? That happens to Eddie. WIP, 7 chapters, 21K words

and we sure as hell have nothing now -- Platonic Stobin hurt/comfort, Steve's house collapses in the earthquake. Complete, one-shot, 3.6K words

[vthehappylurker-fanfiction]

Created a sideblog dedicated strictly to my writings: https://www.tumblr.com/vthehappylurker-fanfiction

Just in case anyone would like stay on tumblr and read. Or if, god forbid, Ao3 has issues.

[paranormal-peri]

ITS BEEN A WHILE WITH NO NEW CHAPTER BUT I FEED YOU ALL AN ANIMATION WIP

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Uhh, CW for magical backup angst stuff.

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[daisytarget]

I am so dumb and stupi dplease ao3 give me one more chance to learn from my mistakes

[sheremindsmeofawestsidestory]

Fanfiction Confession day 1

I rawdog my ao3 fics by writing them directly on the site.

Do not judge my nefarious ways for I possess greater knowledge than the herd, I am transcendent and you will all laugh when the end times are nigh. The Day of Judgement will come and I'll laugh as i type away, continuing my toxic yaoi arc.

[space-writes]

shameless self promotion sunday

tagged by @foxboyclit and @thegreatobsesso, thank you both!

i love all my fics but also i do in fact do other things sometimes, and i’m really quite proud of my little neocities site. it’s not perfect, and it’s very much a work in progress, but the parts that are done I really like!

i have all my fic up on there, and a load of my playlists (with meta commentary on some!), plus I made sections for Obedience and obsession that have some very neat looking character pages...i love tinkering with html and css, and i love having a project that is purely for fun and not remotely about demonstrating any kind of skill.

i've really enjoyed solving such puzzles as 'how to make a horizontal menu bar' and 'how to make a reactive image grid'

anyway i just like my lil hand-coded stick-figure of a website, and if anyone else has a neocities let me know, i wanna put you in my list of friend links~

no-pressure tagging @oh-no-another-idea @chauceryfairytales @reneesbooks and @talesfromaurea to do some shameless self promotion (on a sunday or any other day, all days are good for singing your own praises)

[mylittleredgirl]

will you be on bluesky?

nope i’m here until they turn the lights out and then my backup plan is to get a life

[angst-and-fajitas]

Iterations

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64130020

Summary:

Billions of simulations, billions of worlds, billions of other lives that aren’t quite hers. In a hundred thousand years, sometimes the timelines skim so close to Maddie’s memories and she thinks maybe this time, only for some tiny twist of circumstances to split the tracks. And there are times when she slips up, watches a little too closely, cares a little too much, and breaks her own heart again.

These are just a few of those.

The Miracle of Backups

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64130437/chapters/164555275

Summary:

Unbeknownst to Caspian, Maddie makes a backup of his upload just before his fight with Holstrom. After he dies in the battle, she resurrects him. This does not solve their problems.

A chronicling of twenty years of love and loss shared by one small, damaged family amid a changing world.

Author's notes:

RAAAUUGGHH THESE ARE FINALLY READY!!!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S HYPED ME UP AND BEEN SO PATIENT!!!

Please heed the tags! Also note that these fics are technically meant to be read together, but ultimately it's up to you. Iterations will intentionally spoil the entire plot of TMoB for thematic reasons, so if you want to go into TMoB blind then you could just read the first two AUs of Iterations and save the last section for later or smthn.

[hockeyspiral23]

"What was that?" "Oh, nothing uncle. I'm just still very angry at Sorrengail." "I know, but since the Riorson heir is no longer available, we do have to think of different options." "Perhaps I can help with that." "Maraya! How wonderful to see you!"

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

u guys can now find me on ao3 as mauusfeast …. 🐭 i’ve gotten a couple of asks about it (sorry for being a deadbeat dad) so i thought i should mention it!!! will be trying to crosspost the fics i’m most happy with on there but like . it does take a lot out of me LMAO so it could take a while ,,, TvT sorryy

[bubu0h]

How I Manage my personal AO3 e-library Archive

Download everything I want/hope to read in EPUB format. I try to anyways... if I notice I got too many tabs open on my browser, time to download If multi-chapter remember first to press 'Entire Work' and then 'Download'

2. I use Book Story (Android App) to manage the mess that is my downloads folder - this app is a great book database manager AND scroll reader with Big letters as well - The app has this fantastic feature that allows me put the books into 'Reading' 'Already Read' 'Planing' 'Dropped' categories; I move the books around and it helps me keep a visual tab on them - , plus if you like scroll reading this one is fantastic at that as well.

Periodically I update the BACKUP of the folder(s) were the copies of books live. KEEP A BACKUP OF YOUR BACKUP , if you mess around and don't got no backup is really painful and irreversible.

On my computer I then make a copy of my messy ass downloads folder from my phone into my computer. While looking at the visual information the app provides me I delete books that I 'Dropped' and I move 'Already Read' books into my computer E-Library Data Base (I use Calibre) that's my main book hub where I will quickly notice what books need covers and I take my time working to finding an image I like for the book , so I can recognize them books by just looking at the covers I am terrible at remembering book titles

If you are curious this is what Calibre looks like - this is just AO3

3. To read EPUB books I use Libera FD Is frankly the best reader I have tried because I prefer page turning. If you like scroll reading Book Story is much better option for scroll reading.

Libera FD can customize pretty much EVERYTHING and is very very feature rich ( it can be overwhelming) HUMONGOUS FONT SIZE , you can download any font you want to use, replace words if I want to , it has OLED dark mode for reading at 3 am, you can configure it so it reads to you (using TTS) , several reading modes including auto scroll and speed reading mode, and so much more; the dev(s) are still updating and adding functions to it is kind of amazing I am probably not using it to its full potential You can sort books by 'Genre' which is how the app recognize the tags from the website.

Here some visuals of Libera FD (I wrote in the ALT of pics, click on it)

Book Story is a neat app , less overwhelming and the UI is a lot more intuitive. It looks like this for me , you can configure the essentials to your preference. Is a fairly new app be patient with it (sometimes just give two minutes to cook) , it is still being updated. The dev is very active if you got suggestion or present bugs.

4. How to provide enrichment to glorious magnificent authors , that share their passion with us for free. When you open any ao3 .epub on either of these apps the links are underlined. I tap on the link it leads back to the original posted website page at the beginning of every book you get from A03.

Tap the link, keep it open in your browser and star reading.

Open a note taking app.

I usually take notes about my silly musings as I read, copy quotes and whatever else I want to leave in the comment section of the chapter I am on. Cut and paste and that's it. I load the next chapter in the website and then continue reading the next chapter on the reading app (I comment on all the chapters if I have something to comment, sometime I don't have anything to say so I don't . Figure it makes authors happy and i find it very fun. Sometimes they answer back it feels nice) remember to leave kudos and comments specially if you are rereading.

I use Quillpad (android app) the most important feature of any note taking app you choose, in this case in particular, is that it saves your notes automatically (I used some apps that didn't it was devastating losing all my notes like that. I though that as long as I didn't close the app it was fine turns out not - some you have to manually save - and sometimes it would timeout and gone , all my notes gone. With Quillpad I haven't lost notes)

I haven't taken the time to figure out if Librera has a feature for annotation that could be useful for commentary note taking

I think that's all I can think of sharing on this topic. I am open to questions and adding things to this post with visual aid and whatever I can do to help , do let me know.

Keeping a copy of books safe and easy to find KEEP BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS

-Updated Nov. 11 , 2024.

[hermitw]

Complaint that the best thing I've ever written might be this fic where Sukuna's milk-dripping tiddies save us from the shibuya incident

[paranormal-peri]

Guess who forgot to take their meds today

[w1ng3dw01f]

Love getting this email sometimes (/j)

Like…

This wasn’t me Captain.

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Okay, I’ve gotten this twice now. Anyone else? There have been multiple reports of the same thing on Reddit.

Also, as long as WE are the ones receiving the emails, the hackers/bots/whatever else is going on can’t do shit.

[wynnyfryd]

so uhhhhh note to self and others when the site comes back up, download your own fics after you publish them to ao3

[dragonfly-alice]

Backup!

This is a reminder to backup your stories, projects, art...etc! I've lost so many things because of computer issues in the past. Ugh! I lost 50K words to a NaNoWriMo novel once (managed to save 1000 words) I've lost so much fanfiction, original stories...etc.

I used to back up stories with my email (emailed them to myself) but then I lost the email! Ahh! Then yahoo deleted it for inactivity. Rude. I was trying to get back into it. I wasn't inactive! It hurts how much content I know was saved in that email account.

Younger me learned a lesson. Now I backup in several places.