I Was Talking To My Girlfriend And She Said That She Just Goes Through A Tag And Sometimes It's Hard

I was talking to my girlfriend and she said that she just goes through a tag and sometimes it's hard to find good fics if the fandom is too big or if there's too many fanfics.

So, idk how anyone else does it, but here's my "how to find good fics and lose yourself in madness" guide:

Open our trusted and beloved ao3 on the fandom/ship tag what you wanna read about. Or other site you prefer, but this works best for ao3, I'm old, idk how to deal with wattpad nonsense, sorry

Go through the filters <- LISTEN HERE KIDS, THIS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE!!! FILTER THE CONTENT U DONT WANNA SEE PLS FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

Find a fic that you like. I tend to stick to long ones, so I filter the word count as well but you do you

Read the fic; kudo the fic; comment on the fic; bookmark the fic; even better, and/or DOWNLOAD THE ONES YOU WANNA READ AGAIN (you never know what the future might bring and again IF THE AUTHOR DELETED THEIR STUFF ITS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS)

Then open the author's profile, click on works AND FILTER IT AGAIN THIS IS IMPORTANT!!! YOUR FAV AUTHORS CAN WRITE WHATEVER THE SHIT THEY WANT AND YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED TO COMPLAIN, JUST MOVE ON

Read all the fics that they wrote for the fandom you're hyperfixating rn, and again, kudo/comment/bookmark/download

Go to the Author's bookmarks. Because we USUALLY write what we like to read, so the author's bookmarks will probably have fics that, if you liked their fics, you gonna like them too.

FILTER. FILTER THE ONES YOU DON'T WANNA READ. USE THE EXCLUDE TAGS FILTER FOR THE LOVE OF-

Read all the fics the author had bookmarked

Find a new author that you liked.

Go back to step 4.

Congratulations, you're late for work/school/family gathering/any other appointments you might have.

Have fun!

Very proud of myself for accomplishing this in this year alone!! Can’t wait to see the number go up further!! 💜

Something that I like about the Ao3 community on Tumblr vs Reddit is that nobody really complains about seeing the fifth or tenth post of ‘Is Ao3 down?!’ we just go ‘same, I’m freaking out too!’

But seriously, Ao3 why do you keep abandoning us!! 😭

(I saw the post, it should be back now btw)

Happy RM Day, fellow Joon stans ♡

Whenever I feel guilty about working on a new WIP instead of the 20-ish ones I already have, I remind myself that writing something is better than nothing and that writing the new idea might spark inspiration to continue one of my older ones.

And also there’s an audience for just about everything you write, so might as well dip your toes in everything!

NAMJOON’S BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN: namjoon + terry jeffords (b99) 🤍 [cr. qdeoks, c_a_leaf, namuspromised]