So... more thoughts on the meta situation

[potboy]

There's very little of my meta for which I am the OP. Lazy as I am, my MO has always been to spot someone saying something interesting, and then to comment on what they said, leading to long comment threads in which two or more people are talking. That's great in Tumblr where posts are tossed from one person to another and back in a sort of background soup where everyone on the site has the potential to see it. But it's quite difficult to replicate here, where everyone would have to come to the OP's DW to comment in the same order they did the last time.

The crossposting applet that allows me to post stuff from Tumblr to here only picks up my first comment, and doesn't pick up the rest of the thread. (Which is probably just as well, because I don't 'own' those comments to do that with.) So what I'm thinking now is that for long meta consisting of conversations between different people, the best thing to do is to

1. Go and ask for everyone's permission to put it on Ao3
2. Re-write it in a kind of screenplay format, linking back to the appropriate Tumblrs
3.  Put it up on Ao3 and make all of the contributors co-authors

Failing that, I can repost my own stuff here, while linking to the comments I'm replying to on Tumblr. And just hope that Tumblr doesn't randomly delete any of the people involved.

Alternatively, alternatively, I could just distill my own part of the meta into an essay on Hux and then link to all the Tumblr discussions as sources and further reading. I did that with my meta on Celeborn and Colonel Young. But again, that runs the risk of some or all of it disappearing entirely.

So on balance I think the screenplay type thing on Ao3 is the best option.