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Those of you who follow my AO3 account may get some unwanted notifications for older fics (if notifs go out for backdated fics; I'm not sure if they do). I got messaged by someone who had podficced one of my old SGA fics, so I decided to put up that one and a few of the other ones on AO3. Eventually I want to have all my SGA fic there (as much as they make me wince now), but there are so many of them - it's gonna be a slow process.

Anyway, I put up Cold Comforts (the podficced one - here's the podfic), Between the Lines, and Candle in the Dark before I got too sleepy to continue tonight. I think maybe tomorrow I'll do another batch of them. At some point I'd like to get all my 2006 SGA fic on AO3 just to use the stats feature to find out how much I actually wrote that year. It was the year I got back into writing fanfic after a few years away from it -- and I, uh. Wrote a lot of it. A lot. It would be interesting to find out exactly how much.

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Notifications apparently do go out for backdated fic, because I got notifications for all three of these!

I wouldn't call it unwanted, though; I subscribe to a bunch of people, and not all of them are exclusively into fandoms I care about, and I'm perfectly fine with deleting a notification if it's for a fic that doesn't look to be up my alley or that looks as if it'll be incomprehensible because I don't know the fandom. (That said, I like SG:A. So!)

Ahhhhh, that's what I was afraid of! Yeah, I subscribe to people who aren't always into all of my fandoms, too. Still, at some point I need to get all my old, long multi-chapter SGA fics up, and that's going to be .... a LOT of notifications. Actually, not wanting to spam people is the big reason why I've been dragging my feet so long about doing those. (That said, I'm definitely not doing it today ...)

Well, if it's helpful, I got two emails: one for Cold Comforts, and one for "Between the Lines and 1 more." So I think if you post them in quick enough succession, they'll get folded into fewer emails instead of one for every single fic? Somebody who actually works on the AO3 with the back-end stuff would probably be able to tell you what the requisite clustering is.

Oh, that's good to know! I don't think I've followed someone who posted stories in close succession like that. As long as it's somewhat bundled, I won't have to worry too much about it.

I'm so happy you're posting these stories here. Candle in the Dark was the first fic of yours that I read and I loved it so much I went and read the rest of your stories, except for the Frost story, I'm still saving it for a rainy day. :)

Thank you! <3 I hope you'll enjoy the Frost story whenever you read it!

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As others have said, yes, we get notifications for posted fic, backdated or not.

But speaking for myself -- spam away! I subscribe to people because I want to know when a story goes up. It only takes a second to check and delete the email if it's a fandom I don't follow.

I save fanfic on my HD. When I was new to the Internet, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find my way back to whatever site it was on when I wanted to reread. Now I know that some authors decide to pull their fic for various reasons; if it's saved on my HD, I don't lose it. (Except I seldom remember the title or author of the story I want to read -- but I know it's there, somewhere.)

I'm always happy to see older fics appear on AO3. I enjoy revisiting old friends that have slipped into the background of my memory, and seeing the announcement is a great reminder of the "golden oldies". (Seriously, you and Lamardeuse are two of my favorite SGA authors; I always finish your stories with a smile on my face.) I spent the morning reading "Cold Comfort" and "Candle in the Dark" -- aware that I'd read them before, but details in my memory were very vague; it was a treat to delve into them again. (We will resolutely ignore the housework I let slide. <g>)

So, no need to apologize for moving older fic to AO3. Instead, thank you for the reminder of good stories.
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Awwwww, thank you so much! ♥ ♥ ♥ I'm really thrilled that my fics still bring you joy, and glad I was able to give you a little nostalgia buzz today. (And yes, I do the saving-fic-to-my-hard-drive thing too! These days I'm more likely to save it to my Kindle, but somehow that feels less permanent than having it tucked away in a hard drive folder.)

I would love if you put Running on Empty on A03. :) Fanfiction.net occasionally tries to download stuff to my phone and your website's format is too small to read on my phone. I bet it is a huge project. Thanks for uploading them! I just reread A Long Road Home last week.

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