[ SECRET POST #3480 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3480 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But, single drabbles can be fine. It's the massive collections that are aggravating.

[aenrhien]

I'm sure you could refine it a little better to only hide the massive drabble collections, but I'm not sure how to do that unfortunately. :(

[ninety6tears]

Seriously, if people want to have them grouped together (by the EXTREMELY COHESIVE THEME of BEING FOR THE SAME FANDOM, what?) why can't they just put them in a series?

[(Anonymous)]

Because then people flip their shit about the drabble writer posting too many works/posting too often/omg drabbles are taking over the fandom. It's a lose/lose situation for people who write any kind of microfic - either you post separately and piss off the people who are going to lose it if you post with more than whatever arbitrarily determined frequency and/or volume they've decided is appropriate, or you post in a single collected work and piss off the people who assume many chapters = longfic and don't bother looking at the word count and summary.

[ninety6tears]

Adding a new drabble to a chaptered work is still gonna put it at the front of the update queue, so those people might be pissed off either way.

you post in a single collected work and piss off the people who assume many chapters = longfic and don't bother looking at the word count and summary Actually, the part that annoys me is when you end up with a sea of tags because every drabble is focused on a different pairing or what-have-you, and I'm just not motivated to scan all of them to see if a single drabble in there interests me and then go find which chapters are those couple works that I might like. Single drabbles aren't nearly as much of an organizational disaster and I fully encourage authors who write them to keep up with it no matter who's complaining about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! And in smaller fandoms there's the issue of (a) looking like you're taking over the fandom if you regularly post microfic while others semi-regularly post longer fic and (b) the rule about X number of fics making a fandom ineligible for certain fests - I'd rather have a few drabble collections than 100 individual drabbles that push a fandom out of Yuletide.