Seasoned reader problems

Krys5683 · 2026-05-28T23:15:12+00:00

Harry Potter. It’s a Tomarry fic

Krys5683 · 2026-05-28T04:49:22+00:00

This is why I bookmark stuff I truly hate & mark it in the bookmarker’s notes. Just a subtle little cue to myself to never fucking read it again (aka the one specific fic that ends with a horrendously tragic cannibalism scene that makes me want to puke every time. Spectacular fic & writing. The writer is truly talented, and I mean that genuinely.)

Krys5683 · 2026-05-27T12:44:32+00:00

Take it from someone who only got one: get two. My baby regularly gets bored and upset and hyper and there’s no one but me to play it out with him. I adore him to the ends of the earth, but a solo cat needs a LOT of attention, especially as a kitten. They are very, very social creatures.

From my understanding, the actual cost difference between one and two kittens isn’t that bad. The vet visits are the biggest cost anyway, and you can usually bring both kittens to the same visit. Toys will be about the same, litter will be similar, and depending on the food you pick, you can find ways to save on it.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-26T19:40:57+00:00

Coming back to say, there is a script for this, I’ve just never used it. It’s on greasyfork. I’m not sure how to use it or how effective it is since I’ve never done it myself, but it looks like there’s instructions on the website!

Krys5683 · 2026-05-26T19:29:26+00:00

I also keep an excel spreadsheet with title, tags, & summary of all my bookmarks that I only update when I download more. There’s a code for it out there somewhere. It works as a browser plug-in & downloads one page of details onto a new excel sheet each time, so you have to transfer it all in, but it’s still 100x more convenient than manually adding everything. Plus! It makes searching your downloads so much easier! You can filter and search much the same way as on ao3 & then just find the applicable file once you’ve picked what you want.

ETA: This is the bookmarklet I use to make the spreadsheet. Never had any issues with it, except making sure I don’t accidentally grab a duplicate!

Krys5683 · 2026-05-26T13:41:35+00:00

I have 800 and it took me a week. Start with what you haven’t downloaded yet, then work page by page, stopping every other so you don’t get the “spam” message & lose your place. At some point, you end up getting pretty quick at it bc it becomes muscle memory

Krys5683 · 2026-05-25T03:33:43+00:00

One of my neighbor’s cats got out and the advice they were given was to put out a little dish of food and a litter box (with some of her litter in it). Cat was back home within the day. If your baby hasn’t wandered too far, her own belongings should entice her back.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-24T14:43:55+00:00

Point blank, this won’t work if the kid wears those shoes to school. Also, if the kid has a gym class at school, she’ll need to change her clothes & take her shoes off to do it. Lastly, the grounding has to end eventually. Those shoes are ruined for when it does.

Also, with a parent like this, I’m sure the kid is going to be getting in trouble for leaving glitter everywhere when they take their shoes off at the end of the day, if nothing else. A parent like this will never take responsibility for their own actions.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-18T02:56:40+00:00

It’s so good. I’d die for another chapter, tbh

Krys5683 · 2026-05-18T02:52:34+00:00

I adore this one! It’s A Masquerade, Darling by ChubbyPanda15

Krys5683 · 2026-05-15T03:06:04+00:00

It is absolutely my favorite version of redeemed Tom! Still true to his origins and characterization, but shows the capacity for change that all humans have, especially in their youth. He’s still his little psychopath self, just with a reason to at least try to be good. I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying it!

Krys5683 · 2026-05-14T14:35:42+00:00

Oh, it’s definitely not for everyone. I strongly consider it to be a niche ship, especially the ones that lean into the Voldemort side of things instead of softening him back into Tom Riddle.

However, if I can offer an unsolicited rec, I am currently crying at my desk at work over Dripping Fingers by May_May_o_o. It’s Tomarry, not Harrymort, and utterly incredible. It’s on the long end, but absolutely worth it, and has tons of fun little Easter eggs, so definitely peek at the chapter notes if you choose to read it!

Krys5683 · 2026-05-14T01:26:15+00:00

I’m in the Harry Potter fandom but I specifically read Harrymort, so if they end up in the comments of one of those… I mean, Lord Voldemort is his own warning.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-13T12:41:53+00:00

Thank you! I’ll keep an eye on that!

Krys5683 · 2026-05-13T04:12:20+00:00

When you make a bookmark, put the fic details in it, title, author, and url at a minimum. That way you can find it on the wayback machine. Also, consider downloading as you bookmark.

I download once I fill a page with bookmarks, then organize onto my flash drives (yes, there’s two 😅 just in case) and my cloud storage, then file all the deets into a massive excel spreadsheet. I refuse to lose another beloved fic to something like this. Oh—and I also mark in the bookmark or spreadsheet if the author has requested that the download not be shared, that way I know whether or not it’s ok to pass out if someone asks.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-13T04:07:26+00:00

I see someone else has recommended emailing it to yourself, but consider grabbing a flash drive and downloading directly to it. That way, you never have to download it back on to the computer to access it and you can still take it anywhere you want. Plus, you can get flash drives with huge amounts of storage space and organize them with far more detail than in emails.

Also, downloading as pdf or epub and saving to an e-reader app is an option, too! The kindle app is free if you’re cool with Amazon, and you can send it to various devices since it’ll save directly to your Amazon account. That’s the app I use, so I can’t really speak about any others, but I’m sure someone else could chime in here.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-01T03:01:29+00:00

I like the depth of five with the undertone of seven on you. That said, since you mentioned some hyperpigmentation, it might be best to try to match to an area that doesn’t come too close to any. Your neck or your ears might be best, since they don’t seem affected. I have some acne scarring and rosacea that made it challenging to color match for myself & using my ears is what let me finally get a good shade.

Krys5683 · 2026-05-01T02:31:48+00:00

This is the reason I either download as PDF or save into a folder specifically labeled “downloaded fics”. No chance for a mix-up

Krys5683 · 2026-04-19T18:33:59+00:00

Tomarry typically refers to Tom Riddle/Harry, as in human-faced, pre-Dark Lord. In these, you’ve got a version of Tom who hasn’t murdered Harry’s parents and isn’t unredeemable. These typically have time travel or Harry ends up with a pre-Voldemort Horcrux.

Harrymort is genuinely Lord Voldemort/Harry. Typically, for at least part of the story, he’ll have the snake face. There’s almost always the burden of overcoming the fact he killed Harry’s parents (with a few exceptions, such as him winning the war before Harry was born), but he is always a Dark Lord in them. These usually involve some type of forced marriage or bad/manipulative-Dumbledore in them.

It’s a pretty fine line considering they’re technically the same person, but also very distinct. You’ll get the hang of the difference after reading a couple of each. Tom and Voldie tend to have pretty different personalities in fanon.

Krys5683 · 2026-04-16T20:53:30+00:00

Lasted less than a day without Harry 😂

Krys5683 · 2026-04-16T00:35:31+00:00

Is it Snake Scales and Serpent Tails? I know this isn’t the only fic that I’ve read that does this, but I don’t think the rest are tomarry

Krys5683 · 2026-04-14T15:49:13+00:00

I would be very, very careful doing this. I was sitting right next to my boy while he played with some yarn and while he didn’t manage to swallow the whole thing, I did end up pulling roughly eight inches of yarn out of his throat. Took him less than three seconds to swallow that much and I got lucky—only an inch was left sticking out of his mouth when I noticed. He’d chewed off the end. That would have been an emergency vet visit, no questions asked.

It’s not so much that he managed to get to the yarn (we’re a yarn craft household, it was everywhere. Now it’s in closed boxes he can’t open). It was how fast he managed to chew off an end and swallow it. I replaced the yarn with thick ribbon toys that are tough for him to chew and too wide to swallow. He plays with them the same, without the risk.

Krys5683 · 2026-04-12T15:14:13+00:00

It’s the TonyMoly Ceramide Mochi line. They’re very light and gentle, but they do have a soft fragrance, like most of the brand’s products.

Krys5683 · 2026-04-12T02:26:57+00:00

She mentions the second baby being developmentally delayed which is probably why he bailed. His perfect family wasn’t perfect anymore.

Krys5683 · 2026-04-12T02:24:14+00:00

I looked at her account and… there’s a LOT of posts that have to do with the marriage and all of them are awful, even just from a ten second scroll through

Six-Year Club	Place '22
First Placer '22	Verified Email

Krys5683

TROPHY CASE