Holy Crap

[maevebran]

Who the hell told Orlando Jones about Ao3? (I have no idea how to link individual tweets)

"3 awesome things that happen today - @Sprint sent me a tweet. All the feels from #SPNFamily & this tag on #ao3 http://tinyurl.com/mg4cxsz" Orlando Jones ‏@TheOrlandoJones

I'm not sure if this is good or bad or how he found the fic with the tag but Sleepy Hollow Fandom, the actors are watching you. This might curtail my desire to write fic in the fandom.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

He's been reading fic from day 1 and posting about it. In fact, he demanded people send him links to Irving/Ick slash, lol.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I knew he'd been talking about fic and demanding Craving (Crane/Irving) fic but not that he'd actually read it or on Ao3. I know he's on Tumblr and I guess that was where I thought he read fic. Ao3 seemed like it wouldn't be big enough to be on his radar so I was a bit surprised. =)

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

After the very first show was aired he posted links to three different AO3 stories that he partcularly liked, so yup, right from the beginning.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Wow. I came in three episodes in, so as usual, a little late to the party. (I was about three episodes late to the Bones Party and a season late to the Leverage party and 199 episodes late to the Stargate SG1 party.) I guess Ao3 has arrived.

[chrkya-ler.livejournal.com]

It's a damn good thing I've not written fic in ages then. I don't want to be caught out as the shit writer I am by that hottie. LMAO Not that I could do SH any justice at all. It's mad brilliant. I'm so glad I remembered to dvr the first episode. I've been hooked ever since.

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

First, I love Sleepy Hollow... need to get me an icon for it :)

Second... Whoa. Yeah, it might make me a little hesitant to write fic too. I also heard he was tweeting about Supernatural last night?

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Yes he was tweeting Supernatural last night. It was pretty funny. (I just got season 8 on DVD so I didn't watch but reading the tweets was pretty fun.)

I'm working on a spec Sleepy Hollow script to use as a writer's sample and there are things I can't put in it that I'm tempted to fic. (Love scenes between Ichabod and Katrina in the past.) But I'm not sure how I'd put that on Ao3 because I'd have to explain it and what would happen if Orlando Jones found it. Maybe I'll just leave Sleepy Hollow to the professional writing rather than the fannish.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, I'm pretty sure that anyone who wants to be aware that fandom (and all that entails) would know what exists out there if they really want to.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I guess I just remember when Ao3 was a much less well know site than FanFiction.net. I just didn't expect a celebrity to know about it much less link to it. I must be behind the times on that front.

[graycardinal]

FWIW, I wouldn't worry about it.

There have been any number of writers operating on both sides of the fan/pro storytelling wall for decades now -- though for obvious reasons, pros who continue to post fanfic virtually always do so under fannish names. And I know of at least one instance of media fanfic being posted online by a writer who was actually working for the series in question at the time...more than ten years ago now. (Yes, slash was involved....)

More than that I can't say, any more than Alfred would acknowledge to anyone not already in the know that Bruce Wayne and Batman were the same person. (And yes, this can get entertainingly complicated -- the dynamic from the '60s Batseries, in which Alfred accidentally learns Batgirl's true identity and promises to protect her secret even from Batman, definitely applies.)

Suffice to observe that as long as you keep your bylines sufficiently distinct, nobody's likely to blink.