Options for a future chapter are how to get a greater comments-per-subscriber ratio and how settings affect a story. If I do the settings one, I’d have to make a poster to express the impact of visual writing.

I’ve brought up livejournal a couple of times, and so have people in the comments, so I think it is time to properly discuss the pros and cons of livejournal. There are certain things that people like about AFF that they hate on Livejournal, and the same is true the other way. I’ll go one by one through things that concern me when reading and posting fics and compare AFF to Livejournal through my experience with both sites.

1) General history and feel

In terms of user-friendliness, AFF has Livejournal beat. It is very easy to use and not that confusing. You post your fic, tag it, and update that story with new chapters whenever you want, and can easily edit the texts and graphics. AFF gets an A+ for this. As most of us know, a lot of these features of because the authors on Winglin wanted to customize their stories more and organize the fics better. People who used Winglin know what I mean. The simplicity and open nature draws in a really young age group.

AFF is continuously growing and adapting to that. It is geared towards being social and being popular. (I’d say a little too much). And one of the only real organization problems is the cluster of tags we have. Seriously guys, the tag situation AFF has is terrible. If it wouldn’t take a million years, I’d clean them up myself. But that is a rant for another day.

Livejournal’s history is different, and I can’t really offer anything up for it. I know it was originally used for blogs, and it still is, and the posting format was difficult to use because you had to do your own html coding. The people who could learn this do it correctly were usually older and innovative. Livejournal also has levels of accounts that can be made by paying for it. Paid accounts offer more benefits like more storage space for picture, more user picture slots, and more tags available. These users were adults that actually had the means to pay for it.

Today, posting things on livejournal is much easier. It has the same text editing format as AFF with only a few minor differences. The other aspects of livejournal… I’ll get to them.

There is no pro or con to either of these, you guys can form your own opinions.

2) Personalizing your profiles and blogs

On AFF, we know that we can create a user name, and, with enough karma points (500 evidently), we can change it at any time. We can have one profile picture at a time. Our profiles include a personal message and an “about me” section. People can put anything in here. I, for instance, put links on all the posters and titles of my AFF fics. I also put in a summary for each story and a note like “This was my first fic and it so much yet it’s the only one anyone ever liked.”

Then in my about me (which I change frequently-ish) I talk about liking all the bands and hating all the fandoms. Other people put pictures of their biases, put links to other social media, list their friends, make it really pretty with graphics and color, add music playlists, etc. You guys know this stuff.

The link to your profile is asianfanfics.com/profile/view/order-of-joining-aff, so if you really wanted to, you could manually search for every user. There is also a system for looking for people by typing a name in a search bar, alphabetically, by whose online, by who can do a graphic, review, or video, and perhaps maybe by who is a mod though not really.

Anywhere that has your name on it, like when you update a story, a blog, or put up a poll, can lead to your profile. It’s pretty easy to look for people.

Livejournal is originally a blogging site, so each “blog” can have a customized style. You can have a black background with green font and a coffee shop banner, or red and pink tiles, or a cute vampire gothic look. There are seriously a lot of options. (I chose my livejournal style based on how I wanted my tags).

People have the option of either no user picture, or up to 15 without paying for an updated account. These pictures are seen when you post something or make a comment. I personally use my user pics to reflect the type of story I am reading. Jaejoong with his cat if it is a fluffy story, someone smirking, someone pouting, someone shirtless, so on. A lot of people also use them to represent different fandoms. You can have a few EXO pics, some Big Bang, and bunch of Lee Minho and not be that one awkward other fandom kid. (Still, some people just put in pretty pictures).

Information about yourself can be given in two different ways. There is actual a profile page for each user, but I don’t really think people use it. To get to it, you have to hover over people’s user picture on their main journal page and then click the link leading to it. There is also a link to a person’s “user info” which is just the same profile at the top of the main page. I use this for only a certain things.

What can be found on a profile is the standard stuff like age and location. But it is specifically geared towards finding people with the same interests. You can type in your biases and fandoms and other hobbies and they will become tags for with which you can find communities (more on this further down) and other people with that interest. This is actually very convenient when searching for authors for your fandom.

The other way to reveal your profile is through the obvious blogging post. You can make an introductory blog with a note about yourself and the type of stories you write and read. Well, you can write whatever you want, really. I’ve seen people spam pictures, rant, link to other communities or journals they have, put up warnings, and a whole bunch of other . And, so you don’t lose this intro post, you can put a little sticky note on it so it stays at the top of your main journal page forever. You can also change the date of the entry so it says it was posted on a future date. The entries are in order from newest to oldest.

Main journals can include many things, and it really depends on the journal style and the customization that takes place. Some journals have calendars that link to any posts from a certain day, others have links to their other SNS, and some have a views counter, graphics, scrolling song lyrics, and so on. The only real essential thing on this page is the list of tags.

Tags can be presented either in a list or in a cloud format. Some lists (in order by alphabet or by most used depending on customization) can also include the number of posts with that tag. The cloud format bunches all the tags together (organized in the same order as the list) but the tags that have been used more are larger and bolder. Most journals have the option toggle between either style. More on the importance of these tags later.

Lastly, the link to someone’s profile is yourusername.livejournal.com. This makes it more difficult to search for someone by simply plugging in numbers, but if you know the name of an author you like, you can just type it in and at .livejournal.com to the end. Communities work the same way nameofcommunity.livejournal.com. Because the name is in the url, you cannot change it unless you pay. If you want a different name, get a different journal. 

I think the reason a lot of people don’t want to use livejournal is this first experience (and the later experience of looking for fics). They don’t understand the customization fully and they don’t know all the settings and options. It really just takes a lot of experimenting to find what you like. Also, some html skill is recommended (because you can further customize your journal by font style, font color, font size, margin size, backgrounds, banners, music, and other things if you can code it correctly).

3) Posting and finding fics (tags)

Posting fics on AFF is really easy. Just start a new story and go. Each story is automatically added to a list in either your authored fics, or your co-authored fics. They’re added to your friends’ list. There is even a list of all the tags you’ve used. When you update chapters, instead of being lost in a sea of chapters, they are all together under one unit.

Fics can be drafts, made private, invitation only, users only, friends only, and so much more. But there are only two options for mature content. It either is or isn’t and it is up to you to choose which type your fic is. In all honesty, almost every time I update a chapter, it is marked M and I personally go back and take it off. I only swear a lot, there is no detailed description of in this, so stop it AFF.

The important thing is the tags. Because there is such a cluster of tags on AFF, you have to tag every single option for your fic.

#Kris #Wufan #Exo #ExoM #KevinfromExo #KrisandExo #KrisOppa #nofilter

This flawed tagging system (that used to very well work until Janie broke it) is one of the biggest reason I do not like reading fics on AFF. If you want to read something that isn’t very popular or has a lot of different possible names, finding it is rather difficult. I guess that it gets easier when you find your favorite tags, but what about the people that like variety? I know Maria reads across a lot of fandoms. As someone that liked the old tagging system better, this really .

When you find a fic, you subscribe and get notified when they update. Click the notification button, get led to your subscriptions and go to the latest fics. You can always go back and see them and there is an infinite number of fics (and blogs and whatnot) you can subscribe to. I like this system.

a1) Livejournal tags-broad

Livejournal’s tagging is a little bit more complicated. A lot. As I said before, the tags in your interest section of your user info page leads to links to other users and communities with your same interest. But they don’t even need to be your interests. Just use this link livejournal.com/interests.bml?int= and put something at the end of the equals sign. For instance, if do livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=dbsk, there are 424 communities that are related to it and 486 users related (by tags).

Whether or not you will find a lot of people or communities relies heavily on whether or not people even tag it, just like on AFF. Also, older fandoms will have more communities because of their history, but they will likely have less people tagging it because it’s a new feature. Exo has 186 related communities and 494 related users. See? Bigger fandoms will of course have more related matches.

There is also another way of searching for things in livejournal. If you want to read a specific type of fic, like a cat!boy fic with Niel, you can just search for it on the livejournal search bar. This can be narrowed down to entries with matches, people, communities, and even comments. It can be really helpful and I’ve searched for many fics that way. Searching on google also works, but that goes the same for AFF.

a2) Livejournal Tags- Personal Journals

The next level of tagging is journal tagging. When you make a post, you can tag it at the bottom. These tags help organize your journal entries and help people find things faster. Obviously. It’s important to keep your tags organized. People who write about multiple bands might use a tag like group: SHINee or band: B1A4. Those that are writing a series can tag it with title: why people hate your story or ongoing: name of the fic and fic: title of story. Things that you wouldn’t tag before can be added as well. Add genre, type of pairing it is (ot3, ot5, ot12, het, slash, etc), length, rating, and so on. I even tag my fics for coming from a prompt challenge. Some people don’t even label them with group or band and simply put 2PM as a tag. The best thing is that no matter what the tag is, people on your journal will always be able to find your fics if you tag correctly. Your personal tags are yours for convenience.

Just a suggestion for doing pairing tags is to not use petnames and instead put a slash between them. That is the form that is usually found on other journals and almost always in the big communities. Instead of using YunJae as a tag, I would use either Pairing: Jaejoong/Yunho or Pairing: Yunho/Jaejoong. Some people put the order so the dominant person is first, others do it alphabetically. People usually say which way their tags work if there confusion.

Also, if you mess up a tag name, or wish to change it, you can manage it and change the name. Tags can be deleted too. That is good to know because there is a limit of 200 tags for unpaid accounts. Unlike on AFF where they just rot in a growing pile of useless and incorrect tags.

b) Making posts

Because of the importance of tagging and organization, everyone needs to be diligent when making posts. Each post on livejournal is similar to a blog on AFF. You can put anything you want in it, edit it in any way, and make it private or limited to specific people like friends. Like AFF blogs, if you have a series with several chapters, it is helpful to add a link to previous chapters. However, you need to tag them with the appropriate tags and be consistent. When a new chapter is updated, I also recommend going back and adding a link to the next chapter. This is very helpful for people who don’t want to constantly go back and forth between the posts under a tag and the chapter and if you are writing more than one series at the same time (because there is a next entry button).

So yeah, if you write fics with a lot of chapters, having to put your own links can be annoying, especially if your fic has fifty or even twenty chapters. I recommend only putting two links, one for the previous chapter and one for the next. If you are that awesome author that links to all the previous chapters (and next ones I guess), then keep track of all the links. Other people just have a master list where the put the link to all their fics and chapters. A lot do both. And these masterlists can have a masterlist tag and be manipulated to stay on top of the main journal. I don’t mind this because I already did it for my WPHYS blogs before I started really using livejournal. It’s exactly the same format.

You can personalize how many posts are shown on one page of your journal. I show ten per page, others show one, some show twenty. Because posts can be very long (with a word limit of I believe 10,000 words) it can take a long time to scroll through, so there is the function of “cutting” posts. Essentially, you select the text and hide it under a link that can expand when pressed. This is especially considerate because of how we “subscribe” to stories.

a3) Livejournal tags – “subscriptions,” and friends page

Livejournal does not really have a “subscription” function. Technically, yes, it is there, but it does not work the same as on AFF. To be notified of when a story updates, you can track their stories and be sent notices in your livejournal inbox. When you check you inbox, there will be an unread message with the entire post open (even if the person put it under a cut). I’m only tracking six people. Three are so I can read their posts immediately when they update (and keep up with their personal posts because I like them as people, too). One because they hardly update and I fear I might miss it. And I track the two people because I am not yet eighteen and they made it so only adults can read their fics (more on matureness ratings later). Even if the post is marked as mature content, if you are tracking it, you can read it all in your inbox.

I also track a few specific stories. You can specify whether you want to track when someone uses a tag, when they post, and possibly other stuff. I track the stories because I don’t want to add these people as a friend and I don’t want to join their communities.

Adding people as friends and/or joining communities are the real ways to subscribe. In fact, I have only really used 10 (out of a possible 200, yes, there is a limit) of my subs because I really don’t need them much.  Every person has a friends page where the most recent posts from friends and communities can be found. You can of course add a friend or a community and choose not to see their posts on your page, but I think this is the best way to find the fics you want. There is also a filter, so you can see the posts with only the tags you want or filter out the tags you don’ want. It is helpful if you join a band specific community and only want to read fics about a member or two.

Viewing posts on your friends page is the same as viewing them on your main journal. You have a set number for each page (mine is twenty) and you have to scroll to the bottom and go the next page. In order to save time and space, it is considerate to put a cut on long (like more than a summary) entries.

It is important to add friends and join communities (or at least track posts) because this is where a majority of the fics some reads come from. You just need to join the right communities and make the right friends.

a4) Communities and tags

The next and probably most helpful way to find and share fics is through communities. The two types of communities people need to focus on are public communities and personal communities. Communities are run and maintained by other users. They each have their own set of rules that need to be followed. It is very important to follow these rules. There are usually hundreds of fics in these communities, if not thousands. Some communities keep these unlocked to everyone; others can only be seen by members of the community. There can also be a variation because many communities member lock posts to mature or dubious content.

The first step to filtering fics is to join a community geared towards what you are interested in. These are your public communities. Usually anyone can join at any time, though there are some that require approval (like if age is an issue in the comm). When you join the community you have access to all the posts. I say that these communities are public because they are for public use. You can make your own posts and either put your story directly in the community, or link to your personal journal (which is what I do and recommend because of organization).

It is again very vital that tags are done correctly. Community organization is very important and moderator will get angry if you cannot follow the rules properly and tag entries. Tags are for reader convenience! If your story isn’t tagged, it will not be found once more posts are made. Unlike AFF, you cannot change the order of posts by the number of views or comments. Those are statistically irrelevant and inaccurate. It all depends on whether or not people can see it or find it later on.

Because you are already specific to a certain fandom or pairing (because yes, there are communities for specific pairings), you don’t need to be crazy with your tags. In fact, the community has a set of specific tags that you can use. So of the 244 tags in the exo community sonyeoncheonji, if you are writing a genre: mpreg ot3: Kris/Kai/Kyungsoo with mentioned pairing: Suho/Chanyeol, you really don’t need the pairing: Suho/Chanyeol tag. There will be readers for almost everything if it is written well. And they usually are.

People on LJ are actually really good about tagging fics with the appropriate tags. I love it so much. There is so much good organization. POST TO COMMUNITES FOR PEOPLE TO FIND AND READ YOUR FICS.

Just a heads up with communities and livejournal overall- it is geared towards homoual couples. These general communities often have the pairing: Joon/OC tag, but they won’t get much popularity unless they are in a heteroual specific community.

The personal communities are communities that individuals run and post in, but other members cannot. Sometimes a group of people will make these, but often times it is just one person. People do this if they have a lot of fics, if the types of stories they post are not community appropriate (across several fandoms and/or mature content), if they keep their personal blog journal and fics separate, if they face the problem of plagiarism and theft, or if too many people are being added to their friends list (there is a limit, though there is none for communities).

Because some people exclusively post to their personal communities, you have to go out of your way to find them. Sometimes I find these communities by going to other users and checking which communities they are in. You can find this information on the user profile page. It’s not really an invasion of privacy because a lot of people don’t even check those. I might do it once in a few months. Other ways is simply through a fic recommendation. People recommend and request fics all the time. In fact, because the DBSK LJ community is so big and has such a long history, there are entire communities dedicated to helping people find certain fics.

 “Does anyone remember the fic where Jaejoong and I think Yunho and Yoochun were humans and the other two were animal alien things? It was definitely AU. It wasn’t completed last time I checked. I think Jaejoong might have turned into a bird by the end of it.” If a story piques your curiosity and is found, you just follow the commented link and discover a whole new world of fanfics.

As far as I know, most communities have a tag specifically for people looking for old fics or a recommendation. Yes, you can ask “Are there any fics where Kevin is super manly and the other members of U-KISS need to be protected by him?”

TL;DR- Livejournal has a more organized way of finding fics if you know how to use tags correctly.

4) Quality of Writing/People

It’s kind of harsh to also put in quality of people, but come on, there are some crazy people on AFF.

I already said that AFF attracts a younger audience than Livejournal. I’ve probably mentioned that several times throughout this whole rant advice thing. The age translates over to how the community acts and how well the stories are. Obviously this is not black and white because there are people that use both use AFF and LJ, but overall…

Because of how easy it is to post stories and find them and how the popularity of stories is emphasized, I think the quality of fics on AFF has severely decreased. It’s easy for people to find your updated story so you just churn out more and more updates, quicker and tier. It allows you to sacrifice quality for quantity. You don’t have to do this, but it is easy to fall into this habit.

You are also competing with so much more content. When you post a story on AFF, you are fighting thousands of other stories at the same time. The competition on LJ is maybe ten-twenty fics a day depending on the communities and friends a person has. And I mean by one specific tag for both sites. On livejournal, because there is no need to really push for popularity, people spend more time making each post good.

If you check a normal chaptered story on AFF, the length is usually about 2,500 words. On Livejournal, an average chapter length is about 10,000 words long. There are a lot of people who have to split their chapters not because they wanted to write the second half at a later time but because it was too long for one post!

I don’t remember if I mentioned this in my updating chapter, but the quality of your chapter goes down a bit if you are writing after a long break. By the end of the chapter, the quality is pretty good because you have gotten back in the groove of writing and have the mentality needed for your fic. If you write short chapters, you cannot recover that mentality quickly or fully enough. Longer chapters allow you to develop a deeper understanding of your story. See the picture?

Of course, I think it takes a higher level of writing skill to know when to break a chapter and when to continue it. It also takes a lot of skill to write long chapters. People with these skills are on both AFF and Livejournal, but they are more prevalent on Livejournal by far.

Oddly enough, AFF has a bigger blogging community than the Asian fandom part of livejournal. It comes down to the fact that on AFF your blogs are separate from your journals. This means you can have good stories and proper writing in your fics and still act like crazy in your blogs. You’re not really spamming people, and it doesn’t get in the way of the fics they want to read. On livejournal, if you do that, people will probably ignore it for a fic unless they really like you.

 The people that I track/stalk, I read their blog posts and comment on some of them. I genuinely care. And, because it is a “journal,” the “blogs” are usually relevant things like “I’m in the hospital, won’t update. But I will be reading any comments.” Granted, those three are considerably popular authors, so normal people probably wouldn’t get any attention except from close friends.

I think that because there are so many more rules expected to be enforced on AFF and so many changes to keep up with the growing population, AFF is a community you have to be very involved with. A lot of people coming together and exchanging ideas and feelings in one place leads to great things, but it also leads to so much drama!

See? The social life on AFF is more like tumblr, except there is way more censorship.

5) Censorship and Matureness levels

What are the censorships on AFF? I’m pretty sure our comments are still being censored. And because of the next few words - , , , , , - when I post and every time I edit the chapter, AFF will try and mark the chapter as [M]. There are separate sections for mature stories and not mature stories. And blogs. You can’t post or anything like. Basically nothing ual. Even though it’s not mentioned much, the same goes for gore as well.

You can pretty much say that there are two levels of content here. Any bit ual and not. Yet all it takes to view that content is a check in the right box. It’s all due to legality issues (which wouldn’t be issues if the age groups were older).

In livejournal, censorship comes down to one thing, you cannot post or link to ia fics in communities because they can be closed down if found. There might be a few other topics that have to be marked or warned about.

There are three levels of fics. Good for everybody. Good for 14 and up. Good for adults only. You can imagine what goes in each level. Everybody- fluff, kissing, no ual content or dark content at all. Fourteen and up- some ual activities like a , perhaps some drug use, slight or light violence, there might be a sensitive topic like or death. Adults Only- lots of s were given, really dark issues, like the other ones but more involved, lots of gore.

Livejournal enforces the age thing stricter. If you are not the right age, you cannot change your age and you cannot try to manipulate anything so can read those posts, and sometimes you will not be allowed to join a community. You either have to log out to read it (which is sometimes useless because most communities lock posts are for adults only), subscribe to a tag or person, or create a second account. It is almost more trouble than it is worth.

My advice is to just tell Livejournal that you are over 18 even if you are not.

I personally do not think that people should mark their fics unless something is really gruesome or ual. I’ve only thought of a few things I’ve read where I thought that the average sixteen year old would not be able to read it. Topics included in these fics were ia, cannibalism, , , and graphic gore.

Even if the post is in your friends list (actually called a feed now), the message You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults will show up. If you click the message, it takes you to another page that asks for age confirmation. Even if you confirm being 18, if your account says you’re not, you can’t read the post.

6) Other things about Livejournal for anyone that might want to use it

When you post something, no matter if it is chaptered or a oneshot (which are way more favored on LJ than on AFF because of the balanced competition per fandom), it is almost expected to list these things. At first I didn’t do it, but now I see the value.

Title: I only use these in communities, not my personal journal, but that is my preference
Pairing: (if any, which on livejournal is almost always) written in the Person1/Person2 format
Rating: G is good for all, PG is less good for all PG-13 light cussing, kissing, maybe some ual implication, PG-15 (it’s really PG-13, but it’s getting a little bit more ), NC-17 is , and R is when themes are dark, violent, and probably has rough . Chapters can be and often are labeled both. NC-17 and R are the ratings that communities tend to lock.
Genre: if posted to a community, a genre list will be in the tags
Length: I only put this section if I am writing a continuous story or if I feel the need to specify that my story is a oneshot or drabble. Continuous stories that do not already have a set length are written as the-number-of-current-chapters/? and set length stories are written like 1/1 or 3/17.
Summary: Something from one to four sentences. It shouldn’t take more than a few lines. These are not foreword length summaries.
Warnings! I only put these if they are relevant. People need warnings if there is something that might be a trigger like abuse, drugs, alcohol, suicide, depression, character death, , eating disorders, discrimination, etc.

Things with an exclamation mark are important. Mods often use them for tags to easily find and for emphasis. They are used for warnings to draw attention like for !rules. In personal tags, people often use them to emphasize a certain type of fic, like catboy!Tao or girl!Zelo. I use them personally for !masterlist, !crack, breakfast!verse, and so on.  

Because user pictures are next to posts, I tend to remember authors better and will read their fics with less hesitation.

Communities dedicated to individual members are more likely to contain hetero fics, but not really.

There is less competition between the other fandoms. It’s really incredible. There is no featured fic, there aren’t recommended stories, there isn’t a system for voting things up. It is fairer for the average writer and much easier to sort through for readers.

People tend to not comment on your stories if you are new to livejournal, but it is easy to build up a loyal readership pretty quickly. For instance, I had been posting many oneshots to a community and now I have about five-nine readers that comment and read on almost all my posts there. It doesn’t seem like that much, but those my measly oneshots. Your first twenty chapter fic can get you many reliable readers.

Since there is no incentive to comment on stories, people will sometimes only comment if they think the story is good. Because people usually put a lot of work into their chapters, commenting feels like a connection between you and the author and a connection is formed. That is how I feel at least.

But just think, if a popular author updates a story and they have, let’s say 700 subscribers, it is very likely that they will only get 10 comments per chapter. For people who post their stories to communities (it’s like having all the members of the community as a subscribers, so perhaps 50,000 people? Give or take for people leaving fandom), you can get 200 comments per chapter if your story deserves it. Or, you can at least get on my level and get 10 per chapter.

It depends on your popularity and the type of story you write. On AFF, if a story has many chapters, is updated frequently, and is written by a famous writer, then it will be popular whether it is good or bad. How well people perceive your writing and the content you write about is key on LJ.

People like short stories if they are extreme. A few hundred words to express joy, sadness, or fluff (fluff =/= sappy or cheesy) are great. This is true on both LJ and AFF, but on LJ, you will actually get comments for it.

Oneshots are best if they are a couple thousand words long. 3,000 minimum, no max. Some readers, like Maria, actually love those oneshots that have to be split into five different sections. And just to clarify, oneshots are stories that are told in one sitting. Even if there is a big gap or skip in the story, it still flows together as one unit or main theme.  

Even if your story is not actually about a homoual relationship or a standard pairing, a general fic that focuses on the two people can still be labeled as that pairing. That is essentially what the PG-13 and lower rating fics without romance are. A lot of people like these fics and they tend to either focus on the plot or the dynamic of the characters more. Depends on story as well. 

Comedy is either crack or immature. Crack is acceptable, but immature is not.

Angst is always good with a side of self-deprecation and . These fics are good at any length, even the short 1,000-3,000 length.

is good. is wonderful. PWP is not always. with Plot will get you many comments.

Long stories are good. Many updates are not. Even though livejournal users like long stories, it is a hassle to go through so many pages, especially if you have to travel back and forth between a masterlist or a tag page. It is easier to read 50,000 word story in 5-15 posts than in 30-40 posts. By the way, this at about 46,000 words is at 24 chapters.

Lastly, no one likes a big ego. If you have 200 people comment on a chapter, you better be ing humble about it. You better be ing humble if one person comments on your story, ever. Reply to that person and thank them every time. I do whenever I put up another oneshot or chapter. Trust me; you will feel so much gratitude to your loyal commenters. Especially because they are your readers and not your fans.

This is all I have for now.

I think that people can see for themselves the pros and cons to livejournal. The structure and social life is completely different. You have to ask yourself, “Do I use AFF for the fics, or do I use it for the accessibility and the social life.” It might be both, it might be neither. Any way, you have to think about why you are satisfied or not satisfied with AFF. I personally want people to stay on AFF if that is their level of writing, so I am by no means pushing for people to pack their things and move to LJ.

If anybody has any questions about livejournal, I can probably answer them. Feel free to ask.