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⌈ Secret Post #5187 ⌋

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[Gnosia]

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[I Care a Lot (on Netflix)]

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[X-Files]

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[Lolita Fashion Youtuber Tyler Willis]

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09. [SPOILERS for The Story of Yanxi Palace]

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10. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia/child molestation]

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There's a series in the Good Omens fandom that has 165 separate but connected stories, and each story is 666-words long, and it DRIVES ME UP THE FUCKING WALL every time I see a new one posted on AO3. It's so petty of me, but oh my god, just make it all one story! Why are these not chapters?!

That is deeply annoying on one level, and yet I'm loving that 666 word count. To be honest with you, the whole thing sounds like a Crowley scheme - creating low level annoyance in thousands of people lolol.

DA
Yeah, at least in that case there's an obvious reason for why the author's doing that. Still annoying though. But you're right, Crowley would probably love it.

OP - LMAO, okay, I never actually thought of it like that. That is funny.

This is especially annoying in small fandoms or rare pairs. =(

Edited 2021-03-19 22:04 (UTC)

I hate this so much. I'm with you, anon, revel in the pettiness of not reading their stuff!

That is incredibly annoying. At least 5000 words is decent length, so I probably wouldn't stop reading that fic. But some authors do this with little snippets of a few hundred words and those I refuse to read even when they aren't immediately connected. Just put in one story so people don't have to click a button every thirty seconds.

Is this just because it’s marginally easier to press “next chapter” than “next work” or am I missing something?

You do know there's an "Entire Work" button on AO3, right?

I don't think you can do 'entire work' with a series, just a chaptered work.

No, I know that. But the question was whether "it’s marginally easier to press “next chapter” than “next work”" and my point was there's no need to press "next chapter" because the "entire work" thing exists. The fact that you can't do that with a series is what makes the whole 'posting multiple tiny stories instead of one story with multiple chapters' thing so annoying (at least to me).

It just seemed a weird comment to make to *that* comment, because it seems like OP wants chapters, and clicking 'next chapter' and 'next work' is literally the same thing.

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(Anonymous) - 2021-03-20 03:47 (UTC) - Expand

DA - I understood what you meant and I get your point. That said, some people hardly ever use the "entire work" function, so they may not even think of that factor when they're posting their "series."

The only time I use the "entire work" function is when I'm going to be somewhere without internet access. Otherwise I prefer to read it chapter by chapter, since that's the presentation the author chose.

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That's kind of the point. That, yes, there isn't really more work clicking 'Next Chapter' versus 'Next Work', but there is an easier way to view a chaptered work in whole as opposed to a series. The anon above was pointing out that there is something that can be done with a chaptered work that can't be with a series.

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tabaqui - 2021-03-20 13:05 (UTC) - Expand

A fic that's a guilty-pleasure of mine did this... I just copied the whole thing into a document and created an epub of it as a chaptered fic instead of downloading the whole "series".

5K each is a reasonable length, so this wouldn't really bother me. Also, in some fandoms feedback drops to almost zero on multi-chapter WIPs, and many authors know they'll lose motivation without feedback from readers. So they posts the chapters as individual stories.

If that's what it takes for them to stay motivated and finish the fic I am enjoying for free, then I'm not going to begrudge them for it.

If each one is under 2K words, and they're just spewing them out by the dozen, then yeah, that starts to get very spammy and annoying.

Pretty much all of the fics I read are like this. I doesn't bother me because I understand that not everyone has the time to sit down and write a full-length fic in one go, and some people like sharing their work as they write it rather than waiting until it's finished.

I also prefer it this way, because if I'm binge reading a fic in bed when I should be sleeping, I tell myself I'll read until the end of a "chapter" and then go to sleep!

I really don't get why this is a big deal but...you do you, OP.

Yeah that bothers me and that's because I download fic to read. I get headaches from screens if I read for too long so can only read on an e ink device. So download it is for long series fics. It's a bit of a pain knowing which is what chapter on series fic on a kindle.

It's annoying especially for smaller fandoms/rarepairs because the first look at the search results is "Yay, there's plenty of fic!" Always disappointing when it's basically one long fic.

Oh, yeah, that’s annoying too.

This annoys me because it makes the fic look like it’s completed when it’s actually not. I always filter by “completed works only”, so something like this will still show up, but it’s not actually complete. The author is just posting each chapter as a separate “complete” fic. ☹️

Did each part finish its own self-contained story? If so, they're not "essentially chapters", they're a series of separate stories happening within a short timeframe. If not, then yeah, that's annoying.