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fun with searching my author name on the internet
I've figured out that if I go to www.delicious.com -- which is a fairly widely used bookmarking site -- and type in my fanfiction author name, I get a list of my stories that have been bookmarked by other people. My results?
-- 5 for "Fallacy Somewhere"
-- 3 for "Upgrade" (my Yuletide Red Dwarf story)
-- 2 for "Miles from Aberdeen"
-- 2 for "Rosemary" (that was a surprise; I'm fond of it, but it's not one of my more favorited stories on Teaspoon)
-- 1 for "Turn Again" (and yeah, I need to FINISH that)
-- 1 for "Nameless"
-- 1 for "Break of Day"
You guys should all try it for your own author names -- it's fun!
And speaking of my fic "Break of Day," you will never guess what I came across while doing random Google searches on my author name:
Someone has actually translated my fic into Russian! No, really!
I'm just completely blown away that someone went to the trouble to translate one of my fics. It is quite possibly the most awesome thing I have ever come across on the internet. The translation even requires a footnote since I put in a silly aunt/ant joke that doesn't work in Russian. (Truthfully, it probably doesn't even work that well in a British accent, but I put it in anyway.)
I've back-translated the story using Yahoo Babel Fish, which was oddly surreal but also quite amusing, as Babel Fish has its issues with translation. As an example, here's the first sentence of my fic:
It was a pounding on her door, and it was 5 a.m., two things that Sarah firmly believed should never go together.
And here's the first sentence of the back-translation:
Were five mornings, and into the door it loudly, and Sarah it solidly believed that these two things never must occur simultaneously.
And it goes on from there . . . Here's my favorite sentence:
"Sarah!" - it sufficiently exclaimed, as if recently took out it of the hat as rabbit.
Anyway, I'm just thrilled that someone went to all the trouble to translate the story, and I'm sure it was a marvelous job. _Наблюдатель, if you're out there reading this, you've made my week. :D
-- 5 for "Fallacy Somewhere"
-- 3 for "Upgrade" (my Yuletide Red Dwarf story)
-- 2 for "Miles from Aberdeen"
-- 2 for "Rosemary" (that was a surprise; I'm fond of it, but it's not one of my more favorited stories on Teaspoon)
-- 1 for "Turn Again" (and yeah, I need to FINISH that)
-- 1 for "Nameless"
-- 1 for "Break of Day"
You guys should all try it for your own author names -- it's fun!
And speaking of my fic "Break of Day," you will never guess what I came across while doing random Google searches on my author name:
Someone has actually translated my fic into Russian! No, really!
I'm just completely blown away that someone went to the trouble to translate one of my fics. It is quite possibly the most awesome thing I have ever come across on the internet. The translation even requires a footnote since I put in a silly aunt/ant joke that doesn't work in Russian. (Truthfully, it probably doesn't even work that well in a British accent, but I put it in anyway.)
I've back-translated the story using Yahoo Babel Fish, which was oddly surreal but also quite amusing, as Babel Fish has its issues with translation. As an example, here's the first sentence of my fic:
It was a pounding on her door, and it was 5 a.m., two things that Sarah firmly believed should never go together.
And here's the first sentence of the back-translation:
Were five mornings, and into the door it loudly, and Sarah it solidly believed that these two things never must occur simultaneously.
And it goes on from there . . . Here's my favorite sentence:
"Sarah!" - it sufficiently exclaimed, as if recently took out it of the hat as rabbit.
Anyway, I'm just thrilled that someone went to all the trouble to translate the story, and I'm sure it was a marvelous job. _Наблюдатель, if you're out there reading this, you've made my week. :D
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I knew about del.ici.ous but would never have bothered looking through it & found that several of my fics had been bookmarked, but also clicking on my author tag revealed that one of them had written summaries for each that were in actual facts cute little recs, and I'd happily pay him/her for it!
(e.g.for 'Fallen': What it says on the tin. Hilarity and Delgado being sort of adorable in his thwartedness. and for Mistaken Rose, searching desperately for the Doctor, finds the wrong one. Both Rose and Six are awesome and hilarious in this one. :-D) However, searching for lost_spook reveals my most popular fic - my Yuletide version of Sleeping Beauty. It's now officially my most popular fic on any count I can find. Which is nice, as it's really sort of original fic, because Sleeping Beauty isn't big on characterisation...
So that was fun.
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It really is amazingly amazing. The person who did the translation has translated some other fics, too, in various fandoms. I have no idea what could have drawn them to translate mine -- perhaps they were looking for an Eleven!fic to do, and just happened across it -- but I'm pretty excited by it.
It's all your fault in a way, too, since you were the one who first suggested to me the idea of Googling on one's author name . . . :D
Glad to help spread the bookmark joy on delicious!
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And... what? Who, me? :Lol:
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And... what? Who, me?
Yes, you! And come to think of it, "Break of Day" is a
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