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[domarzione]

People seem to be doing intro posts, but I'm kind of small fry and I don't know that I have many followers, let alone followers who don't know who I am, for values of I = Domenika Marzione. Is there anything you want to know? Maybe I should be demanding you (re-)introduce yourselves instead.  

My fic at AO3, which is a hilariously incomplete list because I'm twenty-plus years into fandom. I have a horribly long list of stuff I need to upload to AO3 because (a) the website I've been graciously hosted at for a long time is going away and (b) I wrote so much OC-heavy fic in my Stargate days and I didn't think it was 'worthy' of going up on AO3 with an SGA tag. I'm a little torn about uploading the really old stuff, like my Homicide fic or stuff from my first go-round with comics fic because I'm honestly a little worried about looking at it. I was never an awful writer, but I'm a better one now. I already have one of my DCU stories going up at AO3 as anonymous because I don't want to look at it. (It's slash!) And we're just going to completely forget that I wrote Prequel SW fic because that is the fandom I deeply regret writing in because I did it for the wrong reasons and tried (and failed) to yank it from M&A fifteen years ago. 

So how about this: you got questions, I presumably got answers. You want to (re-)introduce yourself because it's been a few years, please do and I'll be chuffed to (re-)make your acquaintance. Everyone participates! 

Comments

[writerlibrarian]

You mean Yoni wasn't there in the background. I could have swear hecwas. 😏

[domarzione]

Yoni totally was because when I was over at Tumblr, he got fanart: http://laporcupina.tumblr.com/tagged/yoni%20safir

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I swept sequential Real Ghostbuster stories into an omnibus to put them on AO3 because they needed rewrites but I didn't have the will to do them at the time. Put a big old These Are So They Are Here.

I think everything but comment fics are now at AO3. So none of the Obsenads either.

Occasionally I get out to put new installments on my Dresden Files/Avengers story, otherwise I'm still working on a five years and counting series in a MCU AU because the tropes have been poor decisions so I'm ignoring them.

And I've figured out how to find which comics I want to borrow from the library, which is good, because I think the streaming is about to kill video.

[domarzione]

Streaming is going to kill video. It's frustrating that there are series I would like to see but I'm not paying for a third streaming service and they'll never be on DVD and certainly not going to Netflix or Amazon.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

It's likely I will get pushed back into vintage media and from there into print that's new to me but 100, 150 years old.

[ilyena_sylph]

Hi, I'm Yena, and I have been lurking around the edges for ages, mostly hoping for Future Pluperfect to reappear...

(If that tells you how long I've been lurking along in your shadow).

Also Ties That Bind is still one of my favorite angst fests.

[domarzione]

We go back a ways, then. :) I'm totally chuffed that's you're still here. And grateful, really and truly. So if I never said hi, I'm saying hi and please don't lurk -- I'm snack-sized and I have a foot in my mouth half the time.

I first went "wait, I didn't do FP?" but then I remembered that I started editing it -- oh my god, getting rid of Gambit and Rogue speaking in 'dialect' -- and never finished. I did White Rabbit, which was a bitch and a half to upload. I don't think I have any of my other X-fic up there and that's really at the top of the "rewrite, needs rewrite!" pile.

[em_kellesvig]

Your SGA OCs are very worthy of AO3; I rec them to every newbie to the fandom. Best outsider POV, best original characters, best informative military insight (that SGA in general, canon and fanfic) often lacked. So, while I have them all saved to my Kindle, please share them with others so I know where to direct them in future. :D

[domarzione]

Thank you! Really.

I am currently going through my website's archive and uploading the missing stories into an unrevealed collection on AO3 -- I am horrified at the idea of spamming everyone who has a subscription to me with a thousand new fic notifications for a fandom they might not have signed up for and maybe doing it all at once will mean one notification? But then there's all of the drabblefic and unfinished bits and whatnot that never made the website and I am going to have to go through LJ because I had everything tagged and sorted on delicious, but that's no longer of use.

[em_kellesvig]

I wish there were some way I could help. I also wish AO3 had been around ten years earlier to make the transition a lot less painful for a lot of writers. So many of my Pinboard links are dead now, and hunting down lost fic has become something of an art form. I've personally saved over 2k SGA fics and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

PS: Pseud change; I used to be mischief5 on LJ. :D

[domarzione]

I think I knew about the pseud change because it was an "...oh!!" moment when it happened. It's like realizing tumblr people are people I knew from LJ from something they say or reblog. :)

The formatting is the thing that makes importing to AO3 so hard; LJ to AO3 makes some weird things happen and it's easier to copy-paste, but that in turn presents its own issues.

[thelostglove]

Hey there! I'm pretty sure we've never met, I was only ever a lurker on Tumblr. But I first came across you through Freezer Burn, and it's still one of the smartest and most impressive fics I've read in the past few years, MCU or otherwise.

[domarzione]

Well then hello, nice to meet you finally. ;)

And thank you. FB is the first story I wrote in the MCU and the series is something I'm insanely proud of, probably to a fault.

[leonie_alastair]

I'm pretty sure the first of your stories I read was part of Teacher's Pet. I enjoyed your take on the relationship between Lorne & Sheppard and then I fell in love with your OCs (Nancy, Yoni, AJ!!). Also I'm from the NY metro area, (even it it's the Jersey side of the river), and I get a kick out your occasional NYC posts.

[domarzione]

Howdy and re-welcome!

I am still in Queens and still prattling on about NY. :) One of the few excellent things about tumblr is that I've found a ton of great things about the city. http://laporcupina.tumblr.com/tagged/new%20york%20city

[beatrice_otter]

The thing is, even with my early fic that I don't like, I still get comments/kudos on it. I may not care for it very much, but other people do. And there are several cases where there was fic I really enjoyed, and the author thought it was not that great and juvenalia and took it down, and it was disappointing to me. So I tend to advocate for EVERYTHING getting saved, yes, even the early stuff when one's writing was far less good than it is now.

[domarzione]

Solid argument, I will admit. The stuff on FF.net I never took down still draws comments after fifteen years. But I cringe at the idea of spot-checking it on the upload.

[alessandriana]

I've also lost fic I loved because the author took it down-- I know it's frustrating to read old juvenalia, but I'm sure someone would be sorry to see it vanish!

[alassenya]

Would it be feasible to create a pseud at AO3 and put all your older or "less worthy" fics under that name? That way they would be linked yet separate. Alternatively, your could create a new account and link it to your old account in the profile so people can make the connection if they wish.

[domarzione]

I technically have two pseuds already just because of the way my account was created back in the day. I don't know enough about how pseuds works, tbh.

[alassenya]

A pseud is like a sub-account. Some people have a different pen-name for each fandom, so making them pseuds gets around two issues -- first, it means that the author only has to remember one log-in (to AO3) but can operate under each pen-name, and secondly, it allows for duplication in the event that two different authors ended up with the same pen-name at different sites.

AO3 has a pretty good explanation <a href='https://archiveofourown.org/faq/pseuds?language_id=en"<here</a> and if you still have problems you can contact the support team. If you need to amalgamate two individual AO3 accounts, that's harder. You could go into your work, add your other ID as co-author, then log in as your second ID and remove the first name, but it might be easier just to ask if the AO3 team can do it in bulk.

[domarzione]

No, no. I know I have two pseuds on my current AO3 account. It was set up by someone else for me as domarzione, but I prefer to use the full name, so that's the other one and that's the one all of the fic is under. I'm just not sure whether, say, everyone who is subscribed to my fic will get everything under all pseuds.

[alassenya]

Hmm, that's a slightly stickier question. I think that anyone who is subscribed to your main ID will get all your posts, and if your default pseud is the same as your ID the same will apply. If they are only subscribed to a subsidiary pseud I think they would only get fic you post under that pseud.

old time lurker peeking out

[madchenm]

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that your SGA fics are some of my very favorites because of your OCs. The way you wrote them gave so much depth to that ‘verse that made it less tv-dramatic, and more grounded in what-could-have real feeling. There were a lot of really talented writers in that fandom writing fantastic stuff, and to me, you are one of the best. Just sayin’.

Re: old time lurker peeking out

[domarzione]

Thank you so much! 'Five years putting more thought into things than the writers' is a pretty accurate description of my SGA days. :)

[kiratael]

I mean, the above commentators all agree with me but I'll say it too: your stuff is totally "worthy" and some of my favorite re-reads.

As someone who was in SGA fandom, wandered out of fandom and then wandered back in via MCU, finding that you've been writing in that for years has been a treat. It may not be Yoni and Nancy and the gang, but it's still your dense (and I mean that in the best possible sense), detail-laden writing with all the clever little turns of phrase and humor. I love your characterizations of Steve and Bucky and Nat and Clint.

I was an_kayoh on LJ, but I've been kiratael on Tumblr for the last few years.

[domarzione]

Yes, you are the reason Yoni got more fanart! (OMG, did I do a dance when I saw that.)

I've gone from writing quotidian stuff in outer space to ridiculous stuff here on Earth, but I'm very glad to see old faces reading new-to-them fic.

[kiratael]

Yes! I'm going to give him an icon space because the *sigh* picture is still hanging in my cubicle for aggravating days. (Next to my 'Evaluation of Potential Rabies Exposures' decision tree, because 50% of my aggravation comes from people thinking they're Snow White.)

[marcelo]

*waves hi*! Long-time fannish fan --- I loved(& still do) your X-Men fics.

[domarzione]

I know you!

I also know that my reaction to my old fic is not other people's reactions to my old fic. But I guess I also worry a little that, like anything else that was enjoyed fifteen years ago, looking at it again with older eyes will spoil the magic.

[marcelo]

But I guess I also worry a little that, like anything else that was enjoyed fifteen years ago, looking at it again with older eyes will spoil the magic.

Yeah, I can relate. One of the insidious risks of memory.

[mirabile]

Oh my gosh, put everything up at the AO3, everything, and especially your ST which I hope you know I adore. *looks imploringly at you*

[domarzione]

My Star Trek stuff? That's been up (https://archiveofourown.org/users/domarzione/works?fandom_id=601802 and you scared me into going to go check that it's still there. :) )

I have to get over myself, basically. I didn't think my OC-heavy fic was supposed to be here, I didn't like making new posts here that were fragments or tiny things that took longer to load than to read....

[mirabile]

Ooops, that was a typo, I meant SG, Stargate. Sorry! But golly, now that I know you've written Star Trek, guess where I'm heading . . .

[helenorvana]

Long-time reader, but I have no idea if I ever commented anywhere, so hello (again?)! I stumbled across you in SGA, and your grounded, "lived in", vast-feeling take on that show, complete with so many OCs who felt sometimes more real than the show's own original characters, became so real and canon to me that it was weird to read other fic in that fandom that didn't include any of your characters, or didn't mention events that happened in your fic? It was *wonderful*

[domarzione]

Thank you and welcome back! I do miss the SGA gang -- not enough to dip back into that pond -- but it's really, really nice to know that others do, too.