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Things I am not posting about this week:

1. Brexit
2. Guardian fandom, slash as an abstract concept, and the difference between queercoding, queerbaiting, representation and tokenism, and how that has played out across media and cultures in the last twenty-five years
3. The difficulty inherent in switching constantly between Guardian liveblogs and Guardian episode recaps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4. How it looks like I'm going to end up having to dig out my old Mike Gravel for President merch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
5. The difference between historical fashion and historical clothing and why it gets my goat when people erase the difference
6. My current project, inspired by the search tips post, of going through my entire 600 pages of logged-in AO3 history to bookmark and tag stuff I want to hang on to

I am not writing posts about them, but feel free to ask me anyway, the rants are on tap.

I did, however, post to fictional_fans about what types of fanfic are good for readers who don't know the canon, so you should go there to talk about that.

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I mean, I am only about a tenth of the way in after three days. But it's not actually taking all that long, because all I'm really doing is bookmarking fics where I see the title and my heart goes "yes" (and mark-for-latering ones where my heart says "...maybe, I should re-read to be sure".) Also I'm not saving any that are shorter than about 8000 words, because the idea is to download them as ebooks and save them to external backup once I'm done, and I get frustrated with short ebooks.

So the vast majority I can just scan past - I can do about a page a minute, opening-in-tabs the ones I want to work with, and then doing th bookmarks in batches after I've done fifty pages or so. And it's also something I can do while I don't even have the brain to *read* fic, because like I said, I'm only bookmarking ones where my heart sings. And any that I am that sure of, I'll have read multiple times, so I don't have to worry about missing them once, since they'll come up again.

If I was trying to do anything more complicated it wouldn't work.

(Also, the 600 pages are only things I've read while logged in, which is probably less than half my total fic reading.)