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[ SECRET POST #4880 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4880 ⌋

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If you do, how do you do it? Just bookmarks in your browser? Or AO3? Downloaded?

Yes. I both bookmark on AO3 and download. But I bookmark more than I download. I really mostly only download porny fics plus the occasional absolutely amazing favorite long fic that I know I'll read multiple times.

I download every fic that is over around 7000 words. I got them all organized into fandom/pairing/rating/etc.

Download. I have now plenty of old fics that have been deleted from AO3 or that were only on the writer's homepage. I'd never rely on just bookmarking.

Usually bookmark. Know I should download but I'm too lazy to actually do it.

I tend to bookmark certain fics on my browser (or bookmark searches).

If it's an AO3 fic:
1. if it's med to long (so 10+ chapters) and Complete/WIP I'll download.
2. If it's less, I tend to just save. If it's a WIP, or a short fic I really liked (usually PWP) I'll download.

If it's a FFN or other site, I use ficsave.xyz to save it into a text. Same rules apple

copy + paste into a word doc and then save that word doc into a folder for the fandom in question. i've been doing it for years after i lost a bunch of fics i loved during one of the many fandom purges from sites going down or disappearing.

i always bookmark and comment on the fics that i do save however.

I have tons of book-marked fics on AO3 and up until my tablet died I had downloaded fics from AO3 and FFnet.

My dream one day is to print off a few of my favourite long-fics and make them into books for me to keep (an idea I straight up got from the Dream Daddy game).

Mainly bookmark, some downloads. There's a few fics I can't work out how to save because all the standard options lose some aspect of the original formatting.
I'm also using the wayback machine to recover a weird crossover I read years ago - god that thing is handy!

I download any fic I end up enjoying. I've lost too many favorites to the void through the years, so if I enjoy it, I download it. Or if it's a long fic that looks like it might have an interesting premise, I'll download that so I can read it on my kindle without having to deal with an internet connection.

Back in the days with dial-up internet that hogged the landline and cost money per website you opened on a computer shared by the entire family, I got into the habit of saving every fic I'd read and liked in .txt format. On a floppy.

In this day and age, I use an online bookmarking service to tag fic if I read it on my phone or tablet, and then download them later. If they're 20K+, I usually save them in epub form from AO3. I've also got a Calibre ad-on for FFN.

I haven't tried running the numbers for my fic folder, but it's sorted by fandom, and depending on the fandom, also by pairing or character.

Edited 2020-05-16 22:49 (UTC)

Re: Do you save fics?

(Anonymous) - 2020-05-16 23:45 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Do you save fics?

(Anonymous) - 2020-05-17 06:30 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Do you save fics?

(Anonymous) - 2020-05-17 10:43 (UTC) - Expand

i mostly just bookmark, but i always have a little inkling in the back of my mind that i should save them differently when they're tha good ones ya feel.

ao3 makes things a lot easier for fic. but back when i read fic in a million different places, i'd save the rly choice stuff, like kink meme fills or stuff from personal sites etc, in private posts on lj/then dw. then i had another private post that was just a directory for all those posts haha. i'd link back to the source in the post, in case i ever wanted to actually rec it or something. but if it ever disappeared i'd still have it. wow i'd forgotten all about that, i haven't done that in years!

Calibre
I also copy past small fics into a Fandom document if there's a lot of them that I like from a kinkmeme or something.

I try to download a copy, I love that we can get PDF's. Best to do it while it's still up just in case it disappears. : (

What are your favorite villain tropes, or what sort of things make you interested in a villain as a character? What specific villains are your favorites?

I love gay villains...I totally understand people hating this trope though.

I like when the biggest evil in a supernatural show or movie turns out to be humans. That doesn't me like the villains as characters, but it's always this gut punch; it feels evil in a way someone like Loki doesn't.

I like the Trio, the bad guys from Buffy season 6, in that way. I like that they're not evil demons, just some nerdy guys who do things that in other media and other context doesn't seem evil, and even in the context of this show doesn't seem as bad at first glance because they're just these idiotic losers in their Mom's basement. But that just makes their actions and crimes worse, because they're so much more "real" than the supernatural crap. And they managed to cause one of the two meaningful deaths of that show that stuck – with a gun. They weren't always handled well, to put it mildly, but I like that Whedon, of all people, had the harmless Nerds, who thought they were just having fun, be the Big Bad.