Online fandom

[vilakins]

If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.

One? They are legion! Well, a contubernium or two. (Roman geek here.)

Since we're discussing on-line fandoms here and there, mostly there (because Blake's 7 has, uniquely I gather, a fixation on printed zines with the web a rather dodgy cousin) what do fellow fans think? Should I put my stories in the Hermit library as well as my site in case I get hit by a meteorite? It's a pity there's no gen or mixed site equal to Liberated as I hate the star rating system Hermit has where readers can say how much or little they like a story. I don't have the self-esteem to cope with that.

Any other ideas? I like altariel1's one of using an LJ (deadship) for her fiction. Is it worth having one anyone can post to? I know several people who don't have sites but might like to publish that way, and others could post links to their fiction.

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

1. About more short fics on Hermit: yay!
2. About PDFs: readability studies show that lines of more than 65 characters are hard to read, hence double columns.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

1. I'll have to put them on my site first so they can be linked to Hermit. I wasn't planning to do that (they're just links on an LJ fiction page now) but what the hell.

2. I often make my window narrower to read on-line fic; I suppose that's why. Hmm. I usually set a size 10 font for fiction on my site; would 12 be better?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

In terms of making things readable, 10 point is the minimum (which is why it's required by US law for the fiddly bits of contracts), 12 probably is better, although the things that really make a difference are the amount of leading and the x-height of the font.