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Challenge 15
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Borrowing the spirit of hogwartstoalexandria's Marked for Later challenge, but toned way down given work and various other commitments are all over the place right now…
The challenge: Every time I open AO3 (whether from a fic alert or just general site visits), I'll also check the "Is it later already?" section on the homepage and either immediately read or remove the 3 marked-for-later fics listed there.
Exception – for fics that I do want to read but are really way longer than I have time for right then, I get to leave it there and randomly pick another marked fic instead.
This won't exactly be fast-going, seeing as it's 3 fics each time against 500+ total on my list going back to 2016-ish, but quite a portion of these are probably for fandoms I'm no longer interested in so I probably won't end up reading them anyway. At least I'll know that I'm making some progress on whittling it down, and given we're probably returning to the office more often this year it'll conveniently fill in that commute time.
I've also limited it to "whenever I open AO3" rather than every day or some other schedule because I'm probably gonna be in the reading-things mood then anyway. If you've got a choice then rig the game for success, right?
(I also have a little sometimes-project on the side with my AO3 bookmarks where I'm going through older ones and quoting my favourite snippet of the fic in the notes, like what I do with my more recent bookmarks! Which helps me recall what I liked about each fic more easily than the title or summary, and seeing all the snippets together afterwards is also pretty fun… and also conclusive proof that I have a type for fics, I think, but that's probably obvious already.)
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Date: 2022-01-30 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 05:51 am (UTC)Mark for later is a VERY clickable button! The follow-up, on the other hand...
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Date: 2022-01-30 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:00 am (UTC)I happened to see your post basically right after seeing the Snowflake challenge, so it was extra helpful since I'd have trouble thinking of something! And I can't say I haven't been tempted to yeet it all and start over, haha, but definitely hoping to (re?)discover some gems in here… thanks for linking back from your post too! <3
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Date: 2022-01-31 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-30 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:02 am (UTC)*slaps lid of MFL list* you could fit SO many fics in here
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Date: 2022-01-30 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:05 am (UTC)The one saving grace for me is that my preference runs towards short-to-midlength fics, though there's definitely also some longfic marked in there too. Either way, hopefully we'll both be able to make a dent in that over time! Slow and steady is the way to go sometimes.
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Date: 2022-01-30 06:30 pm (UTC)I like the idea of leaving snippets in the bookmarks to remind you why you liked them! I may have to borrow that idea. :D
Good luck with the challenge!
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Date: 2022-01-31 08:10 am (UTC)My bookmarks are also a little on the needs-gardening side, I gotta admit, but definitely my MFL list is the more out of control one.
Feel free to take the snippet idea and run – it was also a borrowed idea on my end, I think I started doing it in the first place after seeing snippets in the bookmarks of my own fic? I've even got the open/close blockquote HTML tags on my keyboard autocomplete now because I like them formatted that way, and it makes things clearer too in case I add my own comment after that.
All the best with your bookmark wrangling too!
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Date: 2022-01-30 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:12 am (UTC)Really really feeling that XD
Good luck on the going-through-fics to both of us then!
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Date: 2022-01-30 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:16 am (UTC)Has knowing about that feature made me use it? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll………… no time to start like the present XD
And yeah my volume of fic read is much lower now compared to years ago (it mainly spikes when I get into a new fandom) – sometimes it feels like I logon there more often for posting fic/comment replying than reading which is pretty hilarious in itself.
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Date: 2022-01-31 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-31 08:19 am (UTC)Good luck with your list if you do decide to take it up then! ^_^
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Date: 2022-02-01 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-02-01 08:30 am (UTC)If it helps at all I'm glad to hear it! I also get antsy when I can't keep up with stuff (even despite knowing that I'm not the kind of person who can naturally do anything on schedule!) so I thought this might be a good compromise with the original challenge idea.
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Date: 2022-02-03 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-02-03 01:58 pm (UTC)XD
I do keep tabs open sometimes too, but not more than maybe… 20 or 30 max? Usually when I've fallen into a new fandom and am figuring out what fics/authors I like to read, but having too many of them there annoys me enough that I inevitably dump some into MFL anyway. I do have two open tabs that have been there for… about two weeks?… right now though.