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ineptshieldmaid:
k-loulee:
peroxidepirate:
damisays:
anneapocalypse:
unpopular opinion: collecting otherwise-unconnected shortfics in one “work” on AO3 skews and clutters search results, obscures the content (and ratings) of the fics themselves, returns false positives for readers who are specifically looking for longfic, and doesn’t actually benefit readers or help your fics get read.
I’m too lazy to pick through the chapters to find what I like
Consigned. It boggles my mind that this is an unpopular opinion. If your fic lists more than 3 fandoms, there is a 99% chance I won’t even open it.
also if you don’t give the ‘chapters’ meaningful titles well my friend i’m not reading that, how am i supposed to find anything
I’ve always supposed those weren’t intended for reading. Many of them are ‘short ficlets from tumblr’ and the like. I figure the reading-version is on Tumblr, and the combined AO3 version is the author making a personal archive because this hellhole blogging site is impossible to navigate and no one has an LJ/DW any more for this purpose.
I’ve been considering this as it’s gone by, and someone even asked me what I thought.
I struggle with this a bit even with epic works. Where do you cut works into several? More smaller works = more kudos. But one big work = easier for downloading. I archive a lot of stuff on my Kindle so I can read it offline, and some of my favorite works are series; I haven’t downloaded those, because organizing them would be a nightmare. So the only stuff I can reread at will is long standalone works.
But, as this thread is actually about, when it’s a case of combining short things into a long thing, it’s purely an organizational concern, and I’d say the rise of that kind of thing is one hundred percent because Tumblr is so hard to navigate for archive purposes.
I think collecting unrelated works by pairing/fandom is probably the best balance of accessibility for readers/non-obnoxiousness in search results with ease for writer.
I have the problem that I *didn’t* make a work like this, so I have a bunch of stuff that’s only on Tumblr and no way to find what I’ve posted, so. That’s a Problem, to be sure. I know some of my readers are subscribed to me, or to the series they like, on AO3, and so if I posted tumblr ficlets up there, they probably wouldn’t care what the format was, but I’ve been so concerned with doing it “right” I haven’t done it at all.
ineptshieldmaid:
k-loulee:
peroxidepirate:
damisays:
anneapocalypse:
unpopular opinion: collecting otherwise-unconnected shortfics in one “work” on AO3 skews and clutters search results, obscures the content (and ratings) of the fics themselves, returns false positives for readers who are specifically looking for longfic, and doesn’t actually benefit readers or help your fics get read.
I’m too lazy to pick through the chapters to find what I like
Consigned. It boggles my mind that this is an unpopular opinion. If your fic lists more than 3 fandoms, there is a 99% chance I won’t even open it.
also if you don’t give the ‘chapters’ meaningful titles well my friend i’m not reading that, how am i supposed to find anything
I’ve always supposed those weren’t intended for reading. Many of them are ‘short ficlets from tumblr’ and the like. I figure the reading-version is on Tumblr, and the combined AO3 version is the author making a personal archive because this hellhole blogging site is impossible to navigate and no one has an LJ/DW any more for this purpose.
I’ve been considering this as it’s gone by, and someone even asked me what I thought.
I struggle with this a bit even with epic works. Where do you cut works into several? More smaller works = more kudos. But one big work = easier for downloading. I archive a lot of stuff on my Kindle so I can read it offline, and some of my favorite works are series; I haven’t downloaded those, because organizing them would be a nightmare. So the only stuff I can reread at will is long standalone works.
But, as this thread is actually about, when it’s a case of combining short things into a long thing, it’s purely an organizational concern, and I’d say the rise of that kind of thing is one hundred percent because Tumblr is so hard to navigate for archive purposes.
I think collecting unrelated works by pairing/fandom is probably the best balance of accessibility for readers/non-obnoxiousness in search results with ease for writer.
I have the problem that I *didn’t* make a work like this, so I have a bunch of stuff that’s only on Tumblr and no way to find what I’ve posted, so. That’s a Problem, to be sure. I know some of my readers are subscribed to me, or to the series they like, on AO3, and so if I posted tumblr ficlets up there, they probably wouldn’t care what the format was, but I’ve been so concerned with doing it “right” I haven’t done it at all.
