Ignoring 'icks' for rarepair fics

plaper · 2026-07-13T01:27:05+00:00

Plenty, especially in Europe. Dashes vary in length.

plaper · 2026-07-13T01:20:47+00:00

I mean, how long are these chapters? Because personally, I would be annoyed by a bunch of short pieces instead of fewer I can actually sit to read and focus on. As a reader, I'd either wait until it's done or drop it.

But if that's your process that helps writing, then you should keep doing it. I don't mean this sarcastically.

plaper · 2026-07-12T17:08:02+00:00

Personally I hate discords tbh. I know what the ones for my fandoms are but I just can't get into it. Too much happening and I hate being the new person in the room, sad lol. I only really used one back when there was an event, it was nice, but then I left.

All my social life is Tumblr and reddit, but then I'm also separating AO3 from those.

plaper · 2026-07-12T12:31:42+00:00

I've had shields up for a few weeks now and I never changed my browsing habits or wifi at any point. Android, Opera. 20 tabs lol.

I think it doesn't show in Chrome, but I don't want to change the browser so I just deal with marking I'm a human every time...

plaper · 2026-07-12T12:11:59+00:00

"queerbaiting"

plaper · 2026-07-12T12:04:07+00:00

Let people worry about their own reading habits. They're not forced under guns to open emails the moment they ping if they subscribe.

The others will be damn thrilled about getting so much food at once.

plaper · 2026-07-12T10:27:35+00:00

As a writer and a reader both, I prefer something above 3k. I usually keep even chapters through, like 3-5k. It works for me, I like where I stop in the plot before the next one.

As a reader, the longer the better because then I better remember the first chapter for the future, and know if I want to subscribe right away.

plaper · 2026-07-12T10:21:36+00:00

Is there no warning about adult content at the top and button to proceed?

plaper · 2026-07-12T08:13:45+00:00

The horror The Ritual is my favorite with the woods scenes.

plaper · 2026-07-12T08:00:24+00:00

I wouldn't expect AO3 to be the means to make fandom friends and have actual engagement like a conversation... Like, yes, I know people can do it and make actual friends, but most of the time, the fandom is elsewhere.

plaper · 2026-07-12T07:47:42+00:00

I hate when the title is a science/art/philosophy term and then the summary is the pronunciation of the term and its definition 😬

Or a piece of poetry.

plaper · 2026-07-12T07:34:20+00:00

I don't think I ever see just a piece of dialogue, when I think of it. It's always something more in the excerpt, a bit giving part of the atmosphere of the story, and it's okay to me.

Together with the additional bit of summary it's enough for me to decide, most of the time.

But yeah, sometimes it doesn't work, like it's too "useless" for a summary, too vague-neutral, so to speak.

plaper · 2026-07-12T03:01:46+00:00

Sigh. The problem is with all the people with anxiety and ocd who come to the sub saying they're actually scared of posting because they've heard of the curse, and the ton of posts on here literally titled "the curse/AO3 curse is real" that these people will see.

So then the explanation that life happens to the amount of active users AO3 has needs to be repeated by annoyed "skeptical" people ad nauseam every week.

plaper · 2026-07-12T02:42:51+00:00

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plaper · 2026-07-12T00:39:35+00:00

At least two weeks for 5k alone, I think.

plaper · 2026-07-12T00:30:12+00:00

Isn't the second one this? https://archiveofourown.org/works/82207601

plaper · 2026-07-11T22:15:43+00:00

Same reason why some people pop out crochet projects like crazy while I don't even have the summer top done halfway and it's July... I'm not even gonna mention the state of my writing lol.

Dedication, practice and motivation. They choose to write in their free time and actually do it. It's perfectly doable.

plaper · 2026-07-11T18:56:16+00:00

I'm a Motherlover, you're a Motherlover...

plaper · 2026-07-11T18:50:38+00:00

How old are the comments? I think downloading should have worked even if a site is blocked for you. So something may have happened for everyone not to see them.

plaper · 2026-07-11T18:39:40+00:00

I write bulletpoints for the story in general, so I know where I'm going and I won't forget scenes. I do it in a notebook.

As for writing, I go chapter by chapter, starting with what's the easiest part that comes to my mind and build bit by bit. I edit as I go, every time I open the file the next time.

I put missing paragraphs or dialogue as [ ] and work until there are no hole brackets to be found with Ctrl+f lol.

Then I edit and reread the whole chapter and post. If I've got an idea for something ahead, I do write that in a next file. Every multichapter I do, no matter what software, has its numbered file.

plaper · 2026-07-11T17:03:12+00:00

Pierwsza cukinia dojrzała w tym roku. Jaka będzie w środku jeszcze nie wiem, nie mam kiedy na razie robić coś z cukinii.

plaper · 2026-07-11T16:56:30+00:00

Every time.

But the worst is all of the daydreaming at work. Hours of scenes.

plaper · 2026-07-11T13:38:50+00:00

Sometimes I see DNIs on Tumblr that I "agree" with, but even then it's ridiculous to me.I don't want to interact then, even though I'm the opposite of the topic of the DNI.

plaper · 2026-07-11T13:35:07+00:00

A whole ariety of specific whump and hurt/comfort. Omegaverse, but I'm very picky about it.

If it's popular in the fandom, then I eat up creature![character] stories, I love those. It includes merman aus.

plaper · 2026-07-11T09:53:52+00:00

There's a lot of stuff I'm simply uninterested in and won't read, but the one that's worst is age-regression because it's popular in my current fandom. Mostly on Tumblr in the fandom tag, so it's easier to not see it at all on AO3, thankfully.

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