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[melannen]

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Tomorrow, on her day off, melannen should

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get a haircut
12 (16.9%)

go to the grocery store
15 (21.1%)

do her taxes
34 (47.9%)

read one of her library books
28 (39.4%)

start weeding the nonfiction books (finally)
5 (7.0%)

get some sunlight
49 (69.0%)

finish the last thing to finish the big 'clean your entire bedroom floor to ceiling' project at last
24 (33.8%)

do the sewing and mending
2 (2.8%)

do the week's laundry
18 (25.4%)

set up the new backup hard drive she bought and actually back up her old busted hard drives
23 (32.4%)

write something
10 (14.1%)

finally watch the rest of Guardian
11 (15.5%)

worry about things
3 (4.2%)

stare vaguely off into the distance
18 (25.4%)

In other news, I am up to right before the Avengers movie came out in my read-your-AO3-history project, and here is what I have learned recently.

1. There are a *lot* of deleted works. A lot. Probably one in ten, even on AO3, with its orphan and anon and rename options and its making sure nothing goes away unintentionally. It makes me very sad. Let your art live, writers! Bad art is better than no art, and I promise it wasn't as bad as you think!
2. On the other hand I was apparently reading a lot of Homestuck at the time, so maybe there's a reason so much was deleted.
3. Wow, Homestuck fandom has a LOT of really long yet incomplete wips.
4. Rediscovering Avengers fandom as it existed just-pre-Avengers-movie is a trip.
5. I have apparently been reading Naruto fic but ONLY this one specific pairing for a lot longer than I realized.

Comments

[conuly]

Definitely sunshine. Do you want to develop rickets!? Also, laundry - if you're gonna have rickets, god forbid you smell bad at the same time.

[melannen]

it's true! sunshine is important for health! also, good for napping in!

[conuly]

also, good for napping in!

Purr!

[china_shop]

I'm tempted to edit my vote and delete all options except Guardian, to give it a relative boost, but I also think food and sunshine and vague staring are important... *is torn*

[melannen]

I could always vaguely stare at guardian while in the sunlight. :D

[china_shop]

After having been to the grocery store! \o/

[sylvaine]

AHAHA, I was going to say, I don't think my AO3 history looks quite that dire with the deleted works! But it still makes me sad every time. :( I'm an archivist at heart! And I have always believed very strongly in keeping information around and available.

Out of curiosity, which Naruto pairing is that?

[melannen]

Kakairu. (I think really I just want to read about Kakashi, but that pairing is the easiest way to filter for fic that is actually about Kakashi. Plus I only followed canon up to the first timeskip, so most of the newer fic that's heavily about Akatsuki etc. doesn't do anything for me.) I just thought I'd only been doing that for the last five years or so, but it was showing up on my first couple pages back in 2009!

[sylvaine]

Aaaaah, yes, that was one of the two I thought it might be :D It's not my pairing at all (I'm, if anything, a diehard KakaGai shipper if I had to pick one), but I definitely understand the desire to read about Kakashi :D

[melannen]

I would pick KakaGaki too based on canon, but it's the kind of fandom that I fall back on when I just need to burrow into comforting longfic, and there isn't enough KakaGai for that. :( And I'm not diehard enough about it to object to other pairings. (Honestly, in my ideal world, there would be an entire archive of gen about Gai and Kakashi's friendship and I would just stay there all the time.)

[ratcreature]

These deletions are why I now regularly download all fic I finished. But when I look through my bookmarks it also really bugs me that I don't know what they were, which is why I intermittently attempt to always c&p author and title into the bookmark comment field, but that is so tedious on a tablet. So I fail to keep up with it, but then it comes to bite me later. Last time I really went through my bookmarks I spent hours triangulating the deleted ones with my Calibre
fanfic downloads based on dates and what was still there on AO3 to figure out what got deleted, because I just couldn't stand looking at the no information bookmarks.

[melannen]

Yeah, the eventual goal of the backread is to have a bookmarked list of fic I definitely want to keep a backup of, just in case. I couldn't do it with everything I read though, I would never be able to keep it organized.

[ratcreature]

Well, I don't really try to organize my Calibre fanfic collection but just rely on search and the downloaded tags. That is actually better than the mess of folders I used to save fanfic into before, or my LJ-era method to comment with a quick "liked it" skin to an AO3 kudo to get a copy of my comment with the entry attached mailed to me... I actually don't reread very often but I am disproportionately disgruntled if I do want to reread something and then it's not there anymore.

[slightweasel]

I voted taxes largely because I keep feeling guilty/worrying over mine. 😂

[melannen]

Good reason!

[lannamichaels]

Do you have the same ao3 history problem I do, where a ton of fics I read while logged in just... don't show up there? I've never figured out why this happens, but, hey, I did just go back through my ao3 history for the last 7 months to find a fic that it turns out was posted last week, so it's on my mind. ;)

[melannen]

I have no idea? There's definitely large gaps in the history, but I've always done a lot of AO3 reading while logged out (mostly from laziness,) so it's hard to say. It's actually kind of weird that all the fic I've been re-reading lately already has my kudos, because usually I leave a lot of anon kudos and can then re-kudos later when logged in.

[kore]

That is why I download fics I love, fics I like, fics I haven't read yet, fics that have been vaguely recommended....sure I have really disorganized folders full of fics I probably won't ever read, but at least they're THERE. I had this habit long before AO3, though.

Rediscovering Avengers fandom as it existed just-pre-Avengers-movie is a trip.

OMG do tell. Didn't Stony and Stucky at one point both qualify for Yuletide before the movies?

[melannen]

I don't think Yuletide was consistently allowing small subsets of large fandoms then! And actually, Steve/Tony started getting big c.2007-2008, after Civil War came out - I think that's why it took off so fast in movieverse, before CA:TFA was even out, because when people went looking for Steve or Tony fic, that's what was there.

Steve/Bucky started going really quickly after the first Cap movie in 2011 because, well, that movie. :D It was basically nothing until then, though.

And even Clint/Coulson started going after Thor, before Avengers.

(Before 2007-ish and Civil War, though, ALL non-X-Men or Spiderman Marvel fic was absolutely rarepairs.)

What happened post-2012 is that Steve/Tony and Clint/Coulson EXPLODED, and there was a lot more of EVERYTHING, a lot more polyshipping and people mixing the characters together in all sorts of new ways), and based on my reading habits at least, a lot of Tony/Bruce and a lot of Loki/People Other Than Thor for the first time.

And also there was suddenly a lot less of putting MCU people with characters outside the MCU (like Spiderman or the X-Men or even DC.)

[isabellerecs]

I hope you are having a good day off! :D

[melannen]

I have not gotten all the things done but I did get reading and sunshine time in!

[isabellerecs]

Sounds like a good day to me! :D

[dragoness_e]

You can multi-task some of these. ;-) Examples:

* "stare vaguely off into the distance", "get some sunlight" and "do the week's laundry" can all be done at once, assuming you have a washing machine and dryer of your own and don't have to hang out at a laundromat.
* If you are stuck hanging out at a laundromat, "do the week's laundry", "stare vaguely", and "read one of your library books" can be done together.
* "do taxes", "stare vaguely", and "worry about things" go together like ham & eggs.
* "write something", sadly, conflicts with almost everything else on that list, assuming you want to actually get some writing done.
* "stare vaguely" is a real workhorse; it can go with every option that doesn't involve intense concentration on your task. E.g., when you "get a haircut", someone else is doing the concentration-required part of the task, so "stare vaguely" works fine there.

NB: All suggestions should be taken with the seriousness that they were written with.

ETA: what I did with my early fanfic crap was add a note that "This is a real museum piece, written back when I was going by the dub and hadn't a clue about fandom history". I guess my term for Old Shame is "museum piece".

[melannen]

I achieved read, get sunlight, and stare vaguely into the distance at the same time! So it's doable. Perhaps tomorrow I'll try "do taxes" and "back up hard drive" (which should also be doable, since the second one involves a lot of waiting around.)