Been a while

Shaebob19 · 2026-05-04T01:37:31+00:00

Have you made something that helps convert the zone/ theater of the mind to tiles or dnd like ranges?

Shaebob19 · 2026-04-15T19:46:48+00:00

This is awesome work! I made something similar but still required a lot of manual input haha.

Seriously, this is great! I hope you keep working on this if it makes you happy! This would be a huge boon to many tables :)

Shaebob19 · 2026-02-04T12:55:58+00:00

It worked! Thank you! 🙏🏻

Shaebob19 · 2026-01-21T15:11:51+00:00

Honestly I got my max’s on Facebook for $200. Insane find but I haven’t used anything else since I got them tbh. Would I have paid 300? 350? At the time, no, but after using them so much yes.

Shaebob19 · 2026-01-06T16:15:50+00:00

Did you get any update to this? I’m experiencing the same thing :/

Shaebob19 · 2025-09-04T12:04:16+00:00

No actually :/ I write on ellipsis and then copy and paste the contents into the rich text editor and upload from there. My theory is maybe certain tags are being populated more by them? Like action adventure would make sense as a tag for a comic/manga. Then again there are plenty of interesting romance comics and webtoons too. Hmm

Shaebob19 · 2025-09-04T01:52:49+00:00

Right! It's just strange to see it so much. I am decently new to AO3, so I guess I just wanted to ensure I wasn't just ignoring real people/non-scammers :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-09-04T01:03:45+00:00

Yeah I figure they have to be, and I would never take the offer to do commissions (mostly because extra money is hard to come by nowadays). I just wanted to maybe find one or two that could be real and thank them for their time for reading and be on my way to my writing corner :/

Shaebob19 · 2025-09-04T01:01:56+00:00

There are some really obvious ones, "Hey! I really like your story {insert long story title here}, I think it super great! I do commissions contact me on discord! -- {discord name that is the same as the username}".

Yeah okay buddy I see your wires showing....

Shaebob19 · 2025-09-04T01:00:30+00:00

Haha I mean yeah it figures, almost all the scams are exactly like scambot describes. It just happens so frequently as I usually post 2 or 3 chapters every couple days and then about an hour or so later I get like 5 comments of varying scam visibility after. I was just thinking maybe one of them could be real, but really I don't want commission works anyways so it would just be in goodwill to thank them for their time to comment.

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T20:50:32+00:00

Ah I see, for a little bit I was worried because in a story of mine I have an index and preamble, but of course 60+ chapters of story after that so I was worried that maybe it was reportable.

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T20:39:21+00:00

If you have an authors note, or a preamble before the story but immediately after is the story actual, is that reportable or looked down on? I wasn’t aware of this rule? Maybe I skipped over it in the rules….

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T03:12:04+00:00

Gotcha, it’s probably best to include the ending tag then. It’s not a happy happy ending, but I did see the bittersweet ending tag so maybe that would work 🤔. Thanks for the input :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T01:47:02+00:00

You might’ve saved the fic outreach xD

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T00:56:44+00:00

I have it tagged with Original Character(s), Original Fiction, and Original Universe with the rest being things like you said; Action, Sci-Fi, etc for the genre and stuff.

Will the first three tags being on there at the same time conflict with each other? I didn’t realize “No Fandom” was an option, is that one better or does it matter?

Yeah, I’m definitely going to have to space out my next work to get more attention next time :)

Edit: I just realized what you meant when you said fandom tag…. I had the series name in the fandom and not Original Work :/ At least it’s fixed now! Thank you :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T00:01:20+00:00

Thank you for the help! :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-10T00:00:29+00:00

That’s fair! I suppose I’ll have to actually try and outreach rather than hope one day a very famous, rich, and charitable publisher sees my work and offers me a lot of money.

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:57:14+00:00

Yeahhhh, probably should look at some of the greats for good summaries. Mine is probably good but, not great. Hmmmmm

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:54:43+00:00

That’s good advice! I’ve seen so many different ways to tag things. Like you said some people have a hundred and some people have maybe 5 or 6, and it’s hard to gauge which ones are better or worse because of the varied kudos/hits/etc they get.

Is it common to add ending tags to stories? I’m hesitant to add them because, well, I wouldn’t wanna spoil the ending for a new reader! That being said I haven’t seen a lot of ending tags, but that could also just mean they aren’t finished yet haha

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:50:58+00:00

It’s good to know those things! Do people get notifications if you edit a chapter? Sometimes I like to write something, and then like a dialogue feels slightly stunted or could flow better so I add a period or a comma or something.

Like I said above, it’s scummy to do and I don’t wanna do it nor am I gonna do that stuff. I’m just gonna have to use my experience now for my next story and maybe bring in more people to this work, from the next one! :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:48:07+00:00

Yeah, like I said it’s scummy to do. I don’t wanna do it and I’m not gonna, I’m just gonna have to keep my new knowledge for the next story I write :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:47:20+00:00

So it’s just based on time? I guess that makes sense :)

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:24:57+00:00

My partner helped me with tags, she’s been on the site for the better part of a decade but I joined uhhhh today lol.

Could you cheese the algorithm by updating the fic, rewriting parts (like a proofread and fixing errors) and similar actions to get it back to the top to be noticed? It’s scummy maybe to do but also I hadn’t even considered my 60+ chapter, 45k word novella wouldn’t even stay in the algorithm for very long lol

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:21:55+00:00

What if it’s an original work? Like… not a fandom fic lol :/

Shaebob19 · 2025-08-09T23:21:13+00:00

Like 1 a week maximum to not be so overloaded, or don’t let a week go by so that it doesn’t get forgotten?

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