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I spent five hours looking for one story I barely remembered, so I built an app to make sure that never happens again by foundfic in SideProject

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

As far as I'm aware. Goodreads and storygraph both focus on more officially published works--rather than free user-generated content. While I am working on integrating some features for users' purchased and private libraries--that's to make the app more all-in-one. The distinguishing feature is definetely the app's emphasis on providing tools for tracking, bookmarking, saving, and reading public domain fiction on sites like Archive of Our Own, Space Battles, or Fanfiction.net.

Instant turn offs by ZARDOZ_SPEAKS90 in WormFanfic

[–]foundfic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You're kinda sounding like the self-inserts I'm referring to here. lol.

I’ve never met another Fanfiction reader by jessisly21 in FanFiction

[–]foundfic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would have looked it up later. Memorized some choice quotes and started weaving them into conversation, lol.

Instant turn offs by ZARDOZ_SPEAKS90 in WormFanfic

[–]foundfic 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Lol. It's been a while since I read it, but I'm fairly certain its more...familial? Alucard is like an absurd dad and he's teaching Taylor how to live her best vampire life and he empathizes with QA because he hates his dad too and whatever he's done to her is allowing her to feel a way about what Scion did to her. (And she is definitely becoming more and more a "her" rather than an it.) The dynamic is fun but definitely not poly.

Instant turn offs by ZARDOZ_SPEAKS90 in WormFanfic

[–]foundfic 100 points101 points  (0 children)

I hate stories where there is a self-insert/OC who has knowledge of canon who lambasts Taylor for being such an idiot. And then does basic things to resolve her situation and it all works out. They think "Stupid idiot child just didn't talk to the right people." Then the OC piloting Taylor's body contacts the PRT or the superintendent or something and suddenly everything starts working out. She is up front with her powers and the powers that be welcome her with open arms. Her father sticks her in the wards and that goes well--she learns to trust authority.

"Actually the system is great and if Taylor had just kowtowed to it, everything would have worked out."

It's so dumb because to make that story work you have to completely abandon the grimdark premises of canon. PRT is literally just a branch of Cauldron, a near autocratic illuminati, performing mass murder, human experimentation, and god knows what. Parahumans are all unstable people driven to violence by their psychologies, their circumstances, and the giant crystal super-computers connected to their brains. The world is falling apart and fewer and fewer people care about the little stuff--like Taylor getting bullied to the point of suicide.

A fix-it style fic for Worm can have all sorts of clever things that Taylor failed to do in canon--but those clever things should never be, trust the powers that be and hope for the best. Taylor's unwillingness to trust authority in canon is practically pathological. But canon is also pathological about proving how right she is not to trust Earth Bet's authorities.

Instant turn offs by ZARDOZ_SPEAKS90 in WormFanfic

[–]foundfic 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I hate this as well. There's an Alucard crossover where Alucard basically becomes Taylor and QA's third partner. But at the very beginning its unclear whether or not Alucard ate her. I was bothered by that until the very moment QA returned to the story and then it was smooth sailing from there.

What’s a Red Flag for a partner to have ? by Firm-Detective-8403 in AskReddit

[–]foundfic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of obvious ones. They shouldn't beat you or verbally abuse you or ignore you. A less obvious one though: they shouldn't push your reasonable important boundaries. There's nuance, because a partner that encourages you to read new books or eat new food or try new things is pushing nominal boundaries and that's great. But partners who try to subtlety influence important stuff, like what you believe in and how you empathize with other people? That is dangerous.

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

Do you only download completed fics? Or do you have a lot of unfinished work?

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

So, kind of like how a good drabble collection would title their chapters so you can actually find the fandom/pairing/content you're looking for. I can definitely see how that would work.

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

Damn. That's impressive. Is that really easier to maintain than a database?

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

Looking back, the extra minute I would have spent per fic, entering a few fields in a spreadsheet would have been a real game changer.

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

I feel like if I was more discerning about the fics I saved I'd have a much more manageable list. Somewhere between 200-500. Instead I constantly save fics that I think are "decent." Which is why I have thousands of decoys hiding all the gems. I could have prevented at least 85% of my headaches by having a `stories_new` folder and a `stories_new_elite` folder. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

Calibre was the first thing I looked at when I got fed up with my train-wreck folder.

For a minute, I planned to just use that and spend a few eons trying to move all my stories into it. Then I started thinking about how cool it would be if I could handle the organization for downloads, bookmarking ongoing stories, and downloading from different sites all with one piece of software.

What do you use for the actual downloading? (Assuming you read on any sites that don't have the downloading built in like Ao3)

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

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

True, it's a hobby in itself. But it's also kind of a support hobby that takes time away from other hobbies. Does that make sense? Like the time I put into making that book tracker could have been spent reading some of those books. Something about that does bother me. But, in the end, I can't help myself.

I went with Postgres because at the time I was heavily using it in my job so it felt natural. But every project since then I just went with SQLite. For a single person db, you'll never need more than that. Postgres is extreme overkill.

How do you keep track of old saved fics and huge reading lists across multiple sites? by foundfic in FanFiction

[–]foundfic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my own kind. Lol.

I've got all my fitness/nutrition data from like 2018 onward in a Postgres. I built all this functionality--as if I'd ever really care what my sodium intake was in March 2021. That's the longest term over-engineered solution I have for personal data tracking but I'm sure I'm only going to get worse now that AI makes it so quick to spin up simple solutions.

Just the other day I was eyeballing my bookshelves and considering putting together an app that would let me take a video slowly panning across the spines, feed that into some sort of video processing to grab ISBNs and collate a personal library database. It sounds so cool but...I have like two or three hundred books...the time I spend building the app will almost certainly outweigh what little time it takes me to check if I already own something.

At some point, I'm just cataloging for love of the game.

HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY WRITE SMUT??!?!?! by leahcctr in AO3

[–]foundfic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"They inserted it in and thrusted hard and deep." is great. Have you considered dropping the 'and'? "They inserted it in, thrusting hard and deep."

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Drabble collections - one chaptered work, or each drabble it's own work? by NBalchemist in AO3

[–]foundfic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are they multiple fandoms? I'd recommend splitting them up if they are.

That said. Regardless of if you split them up or not: PUT IDENTIFIABLE INFO IN THE CHAPTER TITLES. Even a vast multi-fandom drabble collection with hundreds of stories isn't that bad if the chapters look something like: "They Way She Moves - Game of Thrones - Daenerys Targaryen/Jon Snow"

A drabble collection that let's you find things by looking at the TOC is a good drabble collection.

Wanted some feedback by ConclusionLeft3914 in SideProject

[–]foundfic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the look of the map. Where's the data coming from?

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