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⌈ Secret Post #2309 ⌋

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I used to avoid WIPs pretty hard, and so AO3 was a godsend. Yay! Sort by completed works only!

...except then it turns out people are writing "series" that are clearly just full of chapters, and then those get abandoned, so it's really the same thing. As far as I know, there's no way to sort fic to exclude the ones that are part of a series. :( This is probably my biggest pet peeve about AO3, frankly.

I hate it when authors do that so much. Quit being a special snowflake, dear author, and posting chapters as sequels/prequels. I'm an avoider of wips too. Been burned too many times reading them. I used to read wips of authors I trusted to finish them since they've a proven track record, but very rarely those anymore since I've had them flake out too.

I do still love AO3 though for filtering out the wips though. Makes it much easier to reduce going thru the results.

OMG I don't understand posting related chapters of one story as separate stories. It drives me crazy! It's not "Part 38 of XXX." It's Chapter 38 of a story. You're just posting them as individual stories to, what?, increase your stats? Cut it out!

For the most part when I've read series all of their individual "chapters" have been self-contained so I don't feel like I'm left hanging in the middle like I am with a WIP. If this is just due to my luck then I'm grateful. Otherwise, if people are leaving off in the middle of the story and use series to mask a WIP then... yeah, that sucks.

Of course, they're easy to spot so at least you can just scroll past them when they pop up.

I can understand if they're inherently separate works; I know authors who have things like this separate in the Marvel Universe because one fic will center on different aspects of characters or whatever. But yeah, this is incredibly annoying because I avoid WIPs as a general rule, too.

I've never encountered this before but my fandoms are all kinda small. Usually, authors I read use the series to differentiate between the universes they're writing in, and the works have natural breaks to them.

I find that's one of the most exasperating aspects of AO3. In my experience no other archive/website has such a tendency to make 'series'-- like, 3 main fics and then a billion off-shot ones that you have to hunt down and figure out the order and swift through if they're all in the same tag and --gaah.

Yeah, not a fan either.

I loathe authors who do this. It's such a pain to get each part of the series into an ebook, and so much easier to just download with one click when it's one chaptered fic.

Do you hate us, authors?

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