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Challenge 15

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Borrowing the spirit of [personal profile] 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.)

Date: 2022-01-30 12:47 pm (UTC)
tellshannon815: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tellshannon815
Have to admit I totally need to do that one!

Date: 2022-01-30 03:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hogwartstoalexandria
That's such a cool way to spin it! I hadn't realized there was a snowflake challenge that fit, which is fun. Given that I cleared my history then re-filled my MFL with current things, I won't be yeeting anything but your way would have been fun had I not gone that route. Hope you find some cool things in that giant list! And good luck with your bookmarks project too 👀

Date: 2022-01-31 11:58 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hogwartstoalexandria
Glad to have helped also! Linking back was only natural, I'm sure plenty of people will go your way too—myself included as I can't be trusted to keep up with my own goals 😂

Date: 2022-01-30 03:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bonibaru
I definitely need to do this. *stares at 500 pages of MFL* Maybe I'll make February "Later" month.

Date: 2022-01-30 05:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
This is a great challenge also. I have a sizable list marked for later, the reason being that they are all LONG and I didn't have the time or spoons for them when I first found them. It will definitely be slow going, but I think I can manage to pluck away at them this year if I keep it at the forefront of my AO3 time.

Date: 2022-01-30 06:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brokenhighways
This is a great challenge! I hardly use the Marked For Later feature, but with my bookmarks getting out of control, I need to start and doing a challenge like this is a good way to keep that from spiralling, lol.

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!

Date: 2022-01-30 07:30 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] spikedluv
Good idea! I don't use marked for later, but I have a ton of bookmarks, so I should really (REALLY) go through those!

Date: 2022-01-30 10:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cortue
:O I had no idea AO3 had that feature! I read fic very sparingly at this point but I do think it would be good to occasionally poke at what I do have marked there.

Date: 2022-01-31 05:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] svgurl
This is a good challenge! My 'marked for later' list is really adding up and I should go through it. This might be the push I need. :D

Date: 2022-02-01 08:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] williamsnickers
This is a good one, and it'll reduce anxiety when I can't keep up. Thank you!

Date: 2022-02-03 01:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] externalities
I... did not know AO3 had this MFL feature haha. I just open all the stuff I want to read in tabs until I'm in the mood to devour 100k words of fic over one weekend and go through them all.

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