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sunriseverse · 2 months

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For the ask meme: 9, 10, 12, 17, 28, 33, 40

thanks for the ask!

9. How do you find new fic to read?

honestly i just open whatever tag i want to read and backread from whatever's the newest. i do filter out certain things (length, completion, some archive warnings), but other than that, i don't do much else, just go from there. this is, as you can imagine, harder in smaller fandoms, and sometimes i feel a bit like a rat searching for crumbs.

10. How do you decide what to write?

usually what i write is either 1. prompted (rarer these days now that i'm not Known as a prompt writer), or 2. based on ideas i toss around with my friends. talking concepts through with people helps solidify my thoughts and portrayals—i'm not very good at forming cohesive narratives on my own, without anyone to bounce them off of.

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

hmmm, i can think of a lot i used to be neutral towards, but now i hate or dislike strongly, but not much the other way around...................maybe non-linear narratives? i used to find them annoying, but since i started writing them for sunrise and realised how useful they are, they've grown on me.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

pacific rim or his dark materials fusions always get me. i think these are a bit more common, though (pacrim has its own fusion tag, even), so i guess my most obscure and highly-specific au would be a dmbj-zmyx fusion/crossover—dmbj could definitely work as a door world, but both fandoms have a really small english fanbase, so i'm not sure the overlap between them, and likely, i would be the only one who wanted to read it.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

i don't tend to let people read the entire completed fic before it's posted, but i do send my friends excerpts! poor @lungache has to listen to me both ramble about my concepts and toss my horrid little sneak peeks at them, and @lucientelrunya gets the same treatment, and i greatly appreciate both of them for it.

33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

the ideal chapter length is whatever gets the job done, but if i'm writing a multichapter fic, then whatever length the first chapter is is the bare minimum for all following ones. i've written fics that had 1k chapters, and i've written fics that have 5k chapters—it really just depends on how much i'm covering per chapter. (also, my chapters these days tend to be longer just because i love description and emotion, and refuse to be concise.) for preferred reading length, usually anything 1k+ is good for me, and i'm not too picky—i'm willing to read 2k chapters, or 30k chapters.

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

depends entirely on what i'm feeling. i haven't reread most of my bookmarks, but if i'm in desperate straits (have been through a tag and read everything i'm willing to already), i'll go back and reread things.

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kneworder · 2 years

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wait can i put you all on some REAL nerd shit? color coded fanfic gmail <3

so the email I used when I signed up for fanfiction.net and ao3 and tumblr has slowly become almost exclusively for emails from fanfiction.net and ao3 and tumblr. so I thought, hey! I'm subscribed to so many fics that all update at different times, and since I barely register titles when I read fic and absolutely will not remember what half the stuff in my inbox is, it would be really nice to be able to get a little reminder! so now my inbox looks like this!

if you're someone (like me) who reads a lot of fanfiction but doesn't always catch up on things right when they update due to time or diminished interest, it's really nice to be able to know how much fic for each fandom you're into you're not up to date on, and what you can read or reread if you get back into the fandom! plus it just makes your inbox look nice!

I did this using gmail labels! this isn't terribly complicated, I'll show how I did this under the cut, cause I can't even remember a time before I had this and it's been so convenient, even if it's a little much.

Go to the left menu bar in your email and click 'more,' then scroll to the bottom and click 'Create new label'

Make this the name of whatever show/movie/book/whatever you've been reading all that fic for. I like to make mine abbreviations because it makes the label smaller, but feel free to do what you want here! (I'm using supernatural as an example here)

Then hit create!

After this, go to the settings gear in the top right of your screen and click 'See all settings' From here, click on 'Filters and Blocked Addresses' part of the settings screen

Then scroll to the bottom and click 'Create a new filter'

(You can also create a filter by just clicking search options in the search bar, but I usually do it this way bc I like to be able to see my existing filters!)

Under 'From,' put "[email protected]" (or "[email protected]" if that's what you prefer! you can also make two filters for both, just put in the email you get update notifs from)

Then under 'Has the words,' put in the fandom title and hit 'Create filter'.

(For 'has the words,' you can also put in a character name if that makes more sense -- eg I'm subscribed to some authors who write DC fic for both Tim and Jason, but I'm not super interested in Jason fic, so instead of has the words: 'batman,' I'd put has the words: 'Tim Drake', so if I get a notif about a fic from them, I can dismiss it because it doesn't have my DC tag even if I recognize the author. Using a character name might also make more sense if you're concerned about multiple medias people tag fic under. a batfam fic might be tagged any combination of 'batman', red robin', 'batman-all media types', 'under the red hood' 'nightwing,' etc, so putting in a character you know will be present in everything you want to read makes sure you're covering all your bases.)

This will do a search and give you some options. Go down to 'Apply the label' and select the label you just created earlier!

This ensures that any new emails you receive will have your fancy new label! But what about the emails already in your inbox? Simple!

Just redo the search or find your filter and click edit

Click away from the search bar once it does the search and select all, click labels, hit the new label you've created, then hit apply

Your labels should show up on the left side of your inbox, where you can click on the meatball menus next to them to change their colors!

This is what mine looks like! I can tell by looking at my labels how many unread notifs I have for each fandom I'm into, and can view all of them (past and present) if I click on the label!

You can also add sublabels nested under these if you want to label other things, like character or fic tags. I don't do this, I'm happy with a more simple tag since I usually only follow one character per show, but if you're invested in multiple that could be useful!

And this doesn't just have to be for fic! If you just want to feel more organized about your inbox, gmail filters are super nice to use, be it for work, fun, or whatever your heart desires!

I hope this can be of some help to some of y'all!! happy reading!!

#fanfiction #gmail #ev speaks #i hope this is helpful!! it’s essentially just a tutorial for making gmail filters

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