My Apartment Manager is not a Fanfic Archive

[Bob Schroeck]

As of tonight, the KanriKyara/ManaChara project now has a presence on Archive of Our Own. We're still going to post our work here, but eventually everything will also be posted on AO3 as well. We're only posting one chapter a week or so there, so as long as we keep writing at a reasonable pace, the Stories subforum should always stay ahead of it.

[Mamorien]

A quick grep of the Anime & Manga category indicates that you've posted AO3's first-ever Risky Safety fic. I think congratulations are in order. (Conga rats dance through the room.)

[Labster]

Apparently I also wrote the first Casey and Andy fic on AO3, and it’s in the same story. Both of those were my sections; I’m not sure what that says about my taste.

[Bob Schroeck]

Now you just need to write Risky/Andy and Casey and Safety. <grin>

[Bob Schroeck]

We're only posting one chapter a week or so there

I lied. We posted two chapters tonight, because the second one was rather short.

[Bob Schroeck]

So, I'll be posting Moving Days, Part 1 to AO3 tonight, and given that it's the first story (in internal chronological order) with posts from the managers' board in it, I thought I could tweak the looks of that section a bit to both set it off better and also improve the verisimilitude. This is what I came up with, and I'm hoping that maybe we can standardize on the look for future stuff.

   

(And yeah, it draws a little on both PHO from Worm and here.)

I don't think anyone will have any problems with it, but if you do, let me know.

[Labster]

I just noticed, Adrift in Time is mistakenly tagged with Starlight Express instead of Galaxy Express 999. While I do shout out to the former, the crossover is definitely the latter, inheriting the explicit reference from Aria.

[Bob Schroeck]

No, that's not a mistake, unless it was an error during writing. The train run by Chiyo-Chichi on which Maya and Tadakichi-san arrive in the middle-late part of the story is explicitly identified in-story as the Starlight Express.

[Bob Schroeck]

I just realized we just passed the first anniversary of our AO3 presence a few days ago... A year with a story or chapter posted every week without fail (well, except for a 2-week break during the holidays). Here's hoping we can keep it up for another year!

[robkelk]

A quick grep of the Anime & Manga category indicates that you've posted AO3's first-ever Risky Safety fic. I think congratulations are in order. (Conga rats dance through the room.)

Apparently I also wrote the first Casey and Andy fic on AO3, and it’s in the same story. Both of those were my sections; I’m not sure what that says about my taste.

And apparently Time Away is the first Mahoromatic story on AO3 that uses more than just Mahoro. We're trailblazers...

[Bob Schroeck]

Amazingly, we're not the first to post fanfic for The Mad Scientists' Club. We are the second, though.

[Isodecan]

Surely there were some other fanfics for The Mad Scientists' Club before "The OSI and an Inventor" (which is also fanfic for the Alvin Fernald series).

[Bob Schroeck]

As of this date, there are exactly three fics on AO3 for the tag "The Mad Scientists' Club Series - Bertrand R. Brinley": our Everyone's Still a Critic, and Just About Time and Time Is Not Linear, both by "acs". In none of them are the club and its members the primary/sole focus of the story. And acs's stories are both part of a larger series, so I'm counting them as a single work. So yeah, we're second.

[Bob Schroeck]

At some point overnight last night, we reached 10,000 hits on AO3. While some individual stories there get that many hits in a week, it's still something of a milestone for us.