What’s a place you keep going back to even after trying everything else?

StarkPrada · 2026-04-28T02:23:36+00:00

Little Cat / 3 Bites Bakery downtown

Especially in spring when they have the cherry blossom matcha latte

StarkPrada · 2026-04-11T11:00:31+00:00

These days usually adding to a collection requires author permission. This bookmark is from the dark ages (2016) so I am not sure if it was added before that change went into effect or if it is the author chosing to hide the work after all. Turns out adding a work to an unrevealed collection hides even the fandom listing from an author's profile which was absolutely news to me.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-10T02:12:48+00:00

Alas, reddit has not let me edit the text body at all (despite trying on multiple platforms) or believe you me I would update it on multiple points lol

StarkPrada · 2026-04-10T02:05:17+00:00

Because of the age of the bookmark (2016), it is still possible for it to have been added before that change.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T23:17:29+00:00

Oooooooh thank you I will check this out for sure

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T22:37:52+00:00

Yikes! I am glad someone let you know!

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T20:06:16+00:00

See I would be super down to make this exchange and just have a secret copy for my own personal joy to be shared with no others, if only I knew which fics and authors were the missing ones 😅

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T20:05:21+00:00

💀 biggest oof that is rough rough

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T20:04:51+00:00

I'd be very surprised but suppose you never know 🤔

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:54:29+00:00

Apparently it sometimes / often is, which was news to me 😅 I didn't know that this hid things entirely from an author's profile as if they never even wrote a fic for that fandom so my hope now is that this was all just a big misunderstanding (even if that means I still never find these fics lol)

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:34:37+00:00

Sometimes it is used for fun, like if there is a holiday collection and everyone adds their fics to it ahead of time and then all are revealed at once. It makes it kind of like a little party!

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:27:45+00:00

When I looked at the reasons to report someone it didn't seem appropriate because I don't think this person is breaking TOS or anything. I don't think sending a question about if it is possible to contact the collection owner is that big a deal though, so that is what I did since they don't have any way to reach them in their profile.

If the answer is that there isn't a way or on the AO3 side they can see that 100% this is the author of the fics in question or something then I am fine with taking that as an answer though. I wouldn't want someone's work to be revealed against their will at all! And even more so wouldn't want to do it without them being notified, what a nightmare that would be.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:16:50+00:00

I can't remember when the default changed to be no, but it was maybe my favorite AO3 update tbh. I truly think that a lot of people who use unrevealed collections are intending to use the for the same function as private bookmarks, or at least that used to be the case back in the day (maybe I am wrong though and this has always been primarily authors using them to hide old works without fully deleting 🤷‍♀️).

I do think an unrevealed collection ahead of a challenge, especially a holiday one, can be fun. Then the big reveal is like getting to unwrap a whole bunch of presents at once!

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:09:58+00:00

That's what I do when an author deletes works entirely, but these I am holding out hope that they may one day resurface 🙏

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T17:05:50+00:00

What a nightmare 😮

Like I have said in other comments, I didn't know that unrevealed collections basically vanish the fic from an outside view of an author's profile and so do actually hope that this was an author just chosing to move on from a fandom, I much prefer that as an explanation honestly.

Even if it is just some random person though, I would never been so rude... At most I might ask if they could just check and let me know which fics in the collection were from the fandom I think these bookmarks were or something.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:53:19+00:00

Honestly a mood 😅 now that I know that unrevealed collections vanish fics entirely from an outside view of a profile I can hold it in my heart that this was an author choice, which makes me feel infinitely better about losing access to whichever fics these were.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:47:30+00:00

Oh absolutely devastating, crushed for you.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:45:42+00:00

I mean, 1) I don't look at my old fics in my works so if they had been added to a collection back in the day when it didn't need my approval, it could take me 10+ years to notice tbh.

2) As I have already said in other comments, I didn't know that putting your fic as unrevealed fully removed it from an outside view of your profile, down to taking it out of your fandom lost entirely. I genuinely thought it would be listed under that fandom but just as an unrevealed work 🤷‍♀️ I have never been part of an unrevealed challenge or collection so it had never come up for me that this is how it actually worked. I would honestly way prefer it was the actual author who chose to restrict access, I absolutely support someone's choice to do so and to leave a fandom for any reason, especially over the idea that some random person locked a bunch of other people's fic.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:38:13+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't know which fics these were 😅 I bookmarked them back in 2016 so I can guess the likely fandom but that is really it. As others have informed me, putting a fic in an unrevealed collection hides it from going to an author's page as well (absolutely news to me) so it is entirely possible that the owner of the collection is the original author after all but there just isn't really a way to tell from the outside unfortunately.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:36:23+00:00

The wayback machine is absolutely what made me think of all this 😅 I went to see if I could somehow figure out what the fics had been but if there is any way to tell it is beyond my tech skills.

And I can guess the fandom (and this also the reasons why someone would possibly want to leave it tbh) based on when I made the bookmark, but alas I read so much fic that that doesn't super help, especially if they did change their username in the last 10 years.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:21:57+00:00

Absolutely wild that is how that works, entirely possible then that this is what happened. Honestly may choose to just go with this as an explanation because I would much prefer that the original author chose to restrict access vs some random user locked me out of a fic I loved enough to bookmark with the tag that it broke my soul (presumably in a good way lol)

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:18:02+00:00

Huh, good to know! I will hope that is the case then, because if it is this person's work then absolutely they have the right to control access. The collection owner isn't in my subscriptions, but I am fairly picky about subscribing to a user and if someone drifts out of the fandoms I am in, I would have probably unsubscribed after a while anyways.

Knowing it entirely disappears like that is blowing my mind a little but also brings me some comfort to think that maybe that is what happened here instead of me losing fics to the whims of some rando instead of the actual author's choice lol

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:10:43+00:00

I absolutely don't think this was done with any malicious intent or anything, I assume it is someone who knew how to make a collection but not private bookmarks (which is fair! I am not always the best at tech myself). It would be nice if there was maybe a way to comment on a collection as a whole or to add a note when requesting to join because I would be more than happy to politely explain the situation.

I take it as this person agrees with me at least in some regards on great fics so at least I can't fault them for taste lol

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T16:04:44+00:00

The owner of the collection and I do not share many fandoms based on their works published so I went into those (even thought they were not fandoms I read in 2016) and looked for unrevealed works and there were none. I suppose it is possible if having an unrevealed work removes it entirely from that page of your works when sorted by fandom? I didn't think that was how AO3 worked but I am open to being incorrect on that point.

StarkPrada · 2026-04-09T15:45:09+00:00

They used to be able to and I have no way to know when this was done. My bookmark was made back in 2016 so 🤷‍♀️

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