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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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Turns out I AM doing it with tags, because AO3 can't seem to filter bookmarks by work length. -___- As such, the project has predictably become stalled out, lol.

I am in AWE at you tagging all your tumblr likes! I currently have...... over 10,000 tumblr drafts....... because of chronic avoiding that job and leaving it "for later". /o\

Yeah, I'm really wishing we had more sort options for bookmarks (and you can't use the URL hacking trick for that, I tried.)

I think with the tumblr likes I used the "reblog first, tag later" strategy, because Tumblr actually does let you mass-tag your own posts! So I reblogged everything, and then came up with a list of tags I wanted to use, and then used the mass-tagging page to do one tag's worth of posts a hundred or so at a time. It went a LOT faster. (I was reblogging to a sideblog that I had warned people not to follow, so it didn't matter that they weren't tagged when they were first reblogged.)

I can see why it might be this way from the coding point of view, but it's still frustrating!

OOooh, true, mass tagging DOES work on tumblr... hmmm. There's a way of making it possible, perhaps! Thank you. :D