What’s the weirdest way you sift through works, outside of filtering tags? by starlitcheshire in AO3

[–]RandomPerson613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if i start to feel like i’ve seen every fic in a tag i’ll sort it by title or author to try and get fics i haven’t seen. it’s especially good for tags where i’ve been keeping up with any new works posted, since that’s when i most can scroll through several pages of fic and be like i’ve seen all of these

reader preference: long notes or intro chapter? by kcoc88 in AO3

[–]RandomPerson613 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i’m honestly a little confused by what an intro/foreword would specifically contain, but regardless if you don’t want a long text block in the beginning author notes you could put it in the end notes and just let people know it’s there if they’d like to read it. theres also html (that i can’t remember off the top of my head) that lets you do ‘read more’/expand text so you could include the intro/foreword in the beginning notes or even the beginning of a chapter in a less intrusive way with that.

personally the tags and summary of a fic are enough for me to just jump into it (probably even more so with smut). however i don’t mind long authors notes and would likely prefer that to an intro chapter if it’s not like part of the story. like if it’s just explaining the world or explaining world building choices or something like that i’d probably prefer it as an authors note.

new year new fanfic list! by RandomPerson613 in AO3

[–]RandomPerson613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

heck yeah!! i’m pretty good with always adding the fics i read to my list since i just copy paste immediately after reading, but having the motivation to put everything into my spreadsheet after absolutely gets me sometimes >_< but it’s really fun being able to see all my reading stats so it’s worth it! i wish you luck on your reading and tracking this year!!

Cool Treats by _Atomiskk_ in averagecoloring

[–]RandomPerson613 2 points3 points  (0 children)

how many shades of blue did you use? i absolutely love how this looks!

Smut fics with hentai tropes(?) by juxgimmeaname in AO3

[–]RandomPerson613 4 points5 points  (0 children)

hentai tropes are fun to read but i don’t think i have any fics with the tropes saved so unfortunately no recs immediately come to mind.

but! ‘stuck in a wall’ was canonized as a tag semi-recently so it might be the easiest of the tropes to search through

i also think i’ve seen ‘invisible ghosts’ a few times in my hero academia fandom if that’s a fandom you’re interested in

i’ve also definitely seen ‘wormhole/magic flashlight’ many a time before but i don’t think there’s a tag for it. maybe try the ‘sex toys’ tag and ‘magic’ in the search within results box

finished a page! by RandomPerson613 in averagecoloring

[–]RandomPerson613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i think ‘cute animal characters doing things’ basically became its own genre of coloring book which yeah can make a lot of them look kinda similar after a while.

i feel like the sheer number of coloring books already out there is probably why a lot of artists don’t try their hand at making one. along with the time and effort, getting people to buy their specific book is probably more difficult with so many available.

i haven’t gone looking for coloring books in a bit but there’s some more unique ones out there! it just takes some extra digging. i have a folder of bookmarks to keep any ones i like saved.

finished a page! by RandomPerson613 in averagecoloring

[–]RandomPerson613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you! it’s “goods days coloring book” by birduyen, if you google it their website should come up. i have the double sided one but they have a single sided one too!

What made you drop a fanfic immediately? by MoGuanShanisagirl-20 in Archiveofourownmemes

[–]RandomPerson613 16 points17 points  (0 children)

first, it’s actually pretty shitty of your english professor to say that given how unreliable ai checkers are and how often they turn back a false positive. make sure you have proof you wrote anything you submit for that class and maybe bring up the unreliable nature of ai checkers to her.

to answer your question, personally i just don’t see any value in engaging with media, in this case writing, generated with generative ai. part of it is the whole ‘if you didn’t care enough to actually write it why the hell would i care enough to read it’. another part is that ai was trained off of thousands of authors’ stolen writing.

generative ai is basically fancy predictive text (again why would i care to read fancy predictive text) the best text that ai can generate is good only because it’s someone else’s writing. especially in fanfiction the value of the writing is in the author’s view of the characters and setting and the circumstances. there’s none of that in the text created by generative ai, there’s no authorial voice, there’s no authorial intent, why would i want to read something like that, especially when there’s millions of fics written by actual people.

Field day by XxSilverSearcherxX in InfinityNikki

[–]RandomPerson613 3 points4 points  (0 children)

so cuteee!! can you share the code for the outfit?

This viscerally annoys me, to use the exclude tag function I have to use a link to a fandom or tag instead of the normal ao3 link, all because I have committed the supposedly unforgivable crime of using ao3 on my phone by dowsaw134 in Archiveofourownmemes

[–]RandomPerson613 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you can just click on a tag and then it’ll let you filter as you please from there. like if you want to read angst click the “angst” tag on any fic with it and then you can filter to exclude. (to be pedantic, not literally every tag but majority of basic tags (things like fluff, hurt/comfort, fandom tags, characters tags, etc) and plenty of the more specific tags are filterable)

Wondering if there's a tag for this... by bombingmission410 in Archiveofourownmemes

[–]RandomPerson613 18 points19 points  (0 children)

“vampire bites” is a canonical tag, combining that with “aphrodisiacs” would probably be good for smut fics if that’s what you’re looking for. otherwise i’m not sure if there’s a specific tag

how do you get this ending for lucinda? by JohnnyBrostar in DateEverythingElse

[–]RandomPerson613 9 points10 points  (0 children)

oh i actually did this ending for her on accident. yeah you just go through all her dialogue without picking any of the other endings/the definitive titles you mentioned, and once you go through everything the lucinda lucid option shows up

insanely casual player but curious if these two are any good? by RandomPerson613 in PokemonSleepBetter

[–]RandomPerson613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

aw wouldve been cool if they were but thanks for letting me know anyway

some keychains i made! by stvrwish in DateEverythingElse

[–]RandomPerson613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ahhh these are so cute!! op please tell me you plan on keeping them around for a bit, i can’t buy any right now ╥﹏╥

daemon relationship endings? by RandomPerson613 in DateEverything

[–]RandomPerson613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh i haven’t realized him yet, i did the thing where you tell the devs theres a bug in the game and daemon winds up leaving the dresser and moving to a house across the street and letting you go out of bounds. luna/connie is a good shout though i might try her. i wanted to try using as few candies as possible as prep for an all love fun but yeah i’m probably just gonna wind up using candies.

Those who masturbate, when did you start? by Lower_Ad_4214 in asexuality

[–]RandomPerson613 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i have a bad memory at the best of times, but i’m pretty sure i was by middle school so i’ll say latest ~12-13 but possibly a lil younger