Hey authors, a general plea:

[giandujakiss]

Put your old fics on AO3!

Yes, those 10, 15 year old fics you posted to Livejournal back in the day. I want them - which means others do, too!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

yes but to do that I would have to reread them in order to correctly tag them

(also someone would identify a sort-of-original character as a self-insert, not as an alternate version of a canon character as seen in the larger AU I was bouncing off of, just because the character is a boy named Alex. I am not sure I had yet heard the word 'transgender' even once in my life as of when I finished writing that story. I do not wish to deal with that reaction.)

[giandujakiss]

Well, I don't know what the answer is on the updating/language issue - maybe it could be addressed in a note, and the piece backdated? - but if you even tag the fandom and pairing, people who read the original story and may be looking for it again will be able to find it!

(This plea occasioned by my desire to read my old SPN faves. Some are gone from the internet; some are still on LJ but very hard to find, and in unfriendly formats)

[out_there]

To be honest, I took the lazy option and just didn't bother putting additional tags. It has pairing and rating and fandom, and publishing date. I'm never going to find the time to read a hundred old fics and figure out additional tags, but at least if someone is searching for that old story they read years ago, they can find it on AO3.