OH YEAH. Here’s the other Jibanyan drawing <3
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Draw your OTP like this challenge accepted ✅
Twitter reply commented emphasized the notion that The only substance Twilight would be intoxicated by is Yor 🤭
Can you tell I just woke up when I scheduled this post? Lmaooo
“Twitter reply made a comment about the notion…”
You get what I meannnn
But it does.
It does… one at a time. It’d be useful to be able to select more than one. G&T but not higher, M&E only, everything but E for those who just don’t like smut. (btw I just checked and there is none of the exclusion filters showing on the search page at least in my computer)
AO3 does ‘and’ filters.
You don’t filter for M&E. You filter for not the other stuff.
I have never seen so many users clearly baffled by and too skittish to push buttons/toggles that are very clearly meant to be used.
If a trusted website has a button and you don’t immediately know or understand what it does, push it. Check out every drop down, every link, every configuration imaginable. Be adventurous. Fuck around and find out. If it breaks the website, they shouldn’t have had that button in the first place. Not on you. Indulge your curiosity instead of complaining it doesn’t do something it absolutely does if you poke around a little.
You’re not going to get a bad grade in filtering by using interface features from AO3, I promise.
Look, there are library systems that don’t have filters as good as AO3. You have to learn how to use Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) and construct a proper query to exclude in several academic databases, and AO3 just performs “NOT” for you by clicking a button.
Do you know how many grad students would love to have the kind of power you have with AO3 in filters?
Ao3 filters are amazing. You can filter out ratings, you can filter out characters or pairings, you can filter out specific tags (as long as it’s an official tag)! (Type it in under “other tags to exclude”)
This is why the antis complaining about seeing content they don’t like on Ao3 is so frustrating. If something squicks you out, filter it, and you never have to see it again! Voila! Or even if it is just something you don’t like. I have High School AUs filtered out because I just don’t like them! It’s an amazing system and makes it so easy to curate your experience.
There are in fact tutorials on AO3 for how to use filters! They’re a little difficult to find because they’re admin blog posts, but they exist!
They’re here (basics), here (search within results #1), and here (search within results #2), for anyone who needs them, and not only do they cover the checkboxes, they also cover how to filter for things that aren’t part of the checkbox list using the search within results field!
These tutorials have saved my sanity so many times when I want (or want to avoid) very specific things in my search, and I highly recommend them.
ALSO!!
For those who like finding fics for others - or remember reading a fic and don’t want to sort through hundreds (or more) of your bookmarks and you don’t use bookmark tags (like me?).
USE. FILTERS.
At the very least you can shorten the list of fics to scroll through.
FILTERS.
Miranda: The way you speak to people is horrible! You treat all of us like shit, and you wonder why we treat you like this!
Karl: that's because I HATE YOU. I HATE EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THIS GODDAMN FAMILY. TAKE THE HINT, MOTHER.
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