lookitmychickenNov 29, 2022
#MDZS challenge by Elenir
1. Adaptation you experienced first
2. Favorite version
3. Favorite character
4. Sect you would choose
5. Best fight scene
6. Favorite quote
7. Best dressed character
8. Favorite jnr
9. Best villain
10. Favorite ship
11. Favorite weapon
12. Overrated character
13. Underrated character
14. Best Clan residence to live at
15. Most heartbreaking scene
16. Funniest moment
17. Worst parental figure
18. Who should have lived
19. Most underrated moment
20. Favorite cast member
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

19. Most underrated moment
Hmm ... Maybe the sex scenes in the novel? Because they're not that good at sex, at least not to start with. And at first it seems kind of cringy & ridiculous.

But over time, I've grown quite fond of them. Because they're not good at it, but they love each other so much anyway.

(I'm choosing to believe that they practice a lot & get much better over time.)

Show threadArboreousDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken Wow sorry, I skipped some of my thought process there - that comment followed me thinking in response to your post "yes those are some good scenes and I also like to think that they figure some things out over time like you know lube and oh that reminds me of a fic where..."
Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@arboreous @lookitmychicken That's interesting, it has never occurred to me to see the sex scenes in the novel as they don't know how do to it better and will improve with time. I read them as intentionally kinky. There was no indication e.g. from lwj that he's taking notes on how to cause wwx less pain next time around... Or am I misunderstanding you? Of course a fic author might just pretend that's why their sex was like that and fix it in their AU :)
Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@arboreous @lookitmychicken Also this fic sounds interesting, I don't think I know it! Could it be a sequel of Paper moon? I've read the long one but no sequels.
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous oh yes it could be paper moon! I tend to only rec completed works, & I think paper moon is still a WIP.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1654885

The Same Moon Shines - sami, Winterstar1412 - myself really, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous

I stopped reading WIPs a year or so ago (because my leaky brain couldn't hold multiple ongoing plots in between published instalments). But I read a lot of the paper moon series before making that call.

Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken @arboreous Ah I don't read WIPs either but this is a long finished fic and I'm not sure I even noticed that there were more parts in the series at the time :D That's why I still haven't read any further.
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous oh the series shows as incomplete when I look at the series page.

I know a lot of authors don't mark their series as complete even when they are, which frustrates me a bit.

I have my 'unread' list filtered to show only works & series that are marked as complete, so if an author never marks their series as complete, it won't show up on my unread list.

Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken @arboreous Wait, you can filter your marked for later list?? How! 👀 I want to do that!!
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous You can't. That's why I don't use Marked For Later any more.

At some point I'll probably write a detailed thread on how I do my bookmarks, but for now:

1. Private bookmark everything I want to read and add bookmarker tag "unread".
2. Filter my own bookmarks on bookmarker tag "unread" and more options "complete: true".
3. When I read a fic, or start reading & don't like it enough to continue, delete the "unread" tag.
4. If I liked it, make bookmark public.

Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous
5. If I liked it enough to rec, select the Rec checkbox.

I try to write recs immediately after I've finished reading (so I remember the details well enough to rec).

I also have "Twt rec" and "fedirec" tags that I add to works after I've publicly recced them. So I can search for any fics that I want to rec but haven't yet.

Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous
Oh, I also have a version of my unread filter called "unread SFW" that excludes anything rated mature or explicit.

So I can pick stuff to read on the train without worrying about scandalising the person next to me. :)

Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken @arboreous Wow that's so organized! Impressive! So you're one of the vanishingly few people on AO3 who know how many and which fics they've actually read or at least started reading?
Show threadlookitmychicken

@thalassa @arboreous
Yes, mostly. I haven't been doing it since the very beginning. Only when I realised that the Marked for Later button doesn't actually work how I think it should.

I hate that when you click "Mark As Read" it doesn't actually do any such thing. It just turns off the "Mark For Later" toggle.

Since I read a lot of fic, and my memory's not great, I wanted a better way to know if I've already read something or at least considered reading it.

Dec 3, 2022 at 11:13pmWeb
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous If I read something 2 years ago and someone recs it again now, if I don't have it bookmarked, AO3 won't tell me that I already read it and clicked the "Mark As Read" button.

It's handy because I collect other people's recs to find new stuff to read. I can click on an AO3 link and immediately see whether I have previously bookmarked it, or if it's brand new to me.

Show threadJuliaDec 3, 2022
@lookitmychicken @arboreous Yes, I often read fics or start them and then realize I've read them before (even worse when I don't and I'm told that I've left kudos there before 😳). It's happening more now because I get recs from new sources (you all here on Mastodon) and I'm also going through my twt bookmarks.
I don't know why a marked as read hasn't been implemented by AO3 yet, it can't be so complicated?
Show threadlookitmychickenDec 3, 2022

@thalassa @arboreous
I don't think it's complicated. It's probably just not very high up the priority list.

Currently, the marked-for-later is a simple binary toggle: yes/no.

For it to work the way it should, there would have to be three states:
- Never marked
- Marked for later
- Marked as read

... and the display options would have to be reworked accordingly to determine which of the states applies.

With my techie hat on, I can see it will have a lot of knock-on effects.