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since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

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💜🚨💜 BWOOP BWOOP ATTENTION @CLEOLINDA THERE IS A BABY PALLAS CAT 💜🚨💜

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holy shit

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this is going around twitter and i thought it'd be a fun little thing to bond over

in the tags as usual

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Bruh it turns out I can get motion sick from climbing up and down a ladder repeatedly??

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authors!!

quick question...

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Sick and tired

(Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)

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mint hurts because why

There are four main types of painful food:

Menthol (Mint): Feels cold

Capsaicin (Pepper): Feels hot

Carbonation: Feels fizzly

Alcohol: Feels like stinging

These foods all existed in balance, until the carbonation attacked.

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petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

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Is this 99-million-year-old beetle trapped In amber the world’s first pollinating insect?

It’s incredibly rare to find a fossil preserving both an insect and the pollen it carried. However, this newly discovered beetle suggests that pollination on Earth began far earlier than previously thought.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/beetle-amber-fossil

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I forgot how stressful playing Fire Emblem, Classic Mode, No Resets is.

If I fuck up and let anyone die, ever, that's it they're fucking dead.

I did this on Awakening a few years ago and now I'm doing it on Fates: Birthright, and because it's early game and it's Birthright and it's Normal difficulty bc I don't totally hate myself, it isn't at all hard......... Yet. The impending threat is looming. I'm being handed more responsibility every chapter. More options. More space to screw up. I took one look at the Mozu paralogue and went "Fuck no am I strong enough to do that without Mozu getting super murdered" and backed out. Will I EVER be brave enough to load it up knowing I get One Shot to save her? We will see...

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My new method to avoid eye contact is a low cut top and a push-up bra.

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Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn't expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn't expecting please let me rest