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Square: secret relationship

Know Your Worth by @pleasedontholdback

11k WiP | Mature | SladeJay

Someone’s put up a contract for Jason.  Seven million dollars for his head.  He’s honestly a little flattered.  But whoever put up the contract must not know him very well.  Most assassins and mercenaries who are skilled enough to kill him are friends of his. He just wishes Batman would trust him when he says he’s got a handle on it.

First fill of @ficreadingchallenge

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Remember, to mark off a square you must comment, reblog (with comment!), or find another way to let the creator know you enjoyed their fanwork. With your words.

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We love to see what you're reading! Please tag us in your bingo or progress posts and we'll do our best to reblog. Remember, you can request more cards once you finish, but we ask that you wait a month in between requests to give our mods time to create cards for new readers.

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Love the decorations you did!

Doing this challenge again this year! I’m determined to get more than 2 BINGO’s!

Square: 1 -> 5 + 1 style fic

Title: Five times Harry and Luna talked, and one time they didn't...

Author: JynErsoinNYC

Summary: “Are you alright?” Harry asks her again.

Luna nods. “Yes, I’m fine. How are you?”

Status: Finished

Word count: 1,873

Pairing: Lunarry

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~* This was so sweet ( ;´꒳`;) it’s perfectly short and the little scenes fit into canon. Luna my beloved *~

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hello there! I sent in an application yesterday so I could be part of the event and requested an image bingo card. Was I supposed to receive it in email form, or somewhere else? it’s my first time participating, so I’m a lil unsure ^^;

Hello! Our mod is still working on sending all the cards out. We've had almost 100 sign ups already! You should get an email, so make sure to check your spam in case it got sent there by mistake. Thanks for checking!

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And we're off! It's a great day to read (or listen!) to a fanfic and then leave a comment, don't you think?

We love to see what you're reading! Please tag us in your bingo or progress posts and we'll do our best to reblog. Remember, you can request more cards once you finish, but we ask that you wait a month in between requests to give our mods time to create cards for new readers.

If you're just finding us, check out our FAQs before you fill out the form to sign up. You can request cards until September 20th, at which point the challenge will close until next year!

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The fic reading challenge opens today! You should have a card in your email soon, if you signed up early.

You can still sign up! Check out our FAQs, then fill out this form. It's easy! Curious what our list looks like? You can see it here.

Remember, to mark off a square you must comment, reblog (with comment!), or find another way to let the creator know you enjoyed their fanwork.

Now go forth and spread the love!

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The challenge starts tomorrow! Are you ready?

(You can still sign up, all through the summer!)

Welcome to the third annual summer fic reading challenge! Sign ups will open the week before, on June 13.

And! New this year, we are introducing podfic-specific traits for your bingo cards. You'll be able to choose only fic, only podfic, or a mix of both. We can't wait to get started!

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this is not a comprehensive tutorial, but it is an intro to some things that have made my life so much better. you may have already heard of these! but every time I talk about them in a group-chat or whatever, someone learns of one of these for the first time, and I want to share the good news. so here are

the Four Simple Tools Which Have Most Improved My AO3 Experience (on the computer, at least):

FIRST, for writers: the AO3 posting script google doc.

if you take nothing else from this post, let it be this. let the blessed light of the ao3 posting doc shine upon you.

okay so you know how if you copy your doc into the rich text editor on AO3, it will fuck up your formatting? just a little. like, if a word is italicized at the end of a sentence, but the full stop isn't italicized, there'll be a space between them and it looks weird? or it'll insert extra line breaks between paragraphs?

that's because the rich text editor takes what's copied into it and converts it to HTML, and I guess weird stuff can happen in that process, e.g. the rich text editor interpreting every line break as a new paragraph, including blank ones, thus the weird extra line breaks.

thankfully, there's a way to convert your doc directly to HTML that doesn't run into all those problems! it's the AO3 posting script. you make a copy of that google doc for yourself, so you have editing privileges. then you copy your fic into it, hit "post to AO3" -> "prepare for pasting into HTML editor" and boom, it will do the damn thing for you. it has saved me so much time and energy and annoyance. lots of people know about this, but every time I bring it up I find someone I know has not yet heard the good news, so: now you know!

okay, for the rest of these you need a userscript manager for your browser, like greasemonkey or tampermonkey. a userscript manager is a browser extension that lets you run a userscript (a little program, usually written in JavaScript) to modify particular webpages. I use firefox, so I use the greasemonkey browser extension linked above, but there are others out there! they should have their own installation instructions.

SECOND, for readers: the floating comment box.

wish you could write up comments while you read instead of waiting until you get to the end of the fic/chapter? this script creates a way a, well, floating comment box that you can access while you read! you access it by clicking this little "O" button in the upper left-hand corner of the brower.

when you do that, a floating box pops up, into which you can type your thoughts in as you read! you can also highlight text and click "insert selection," and that text will show up in the box, italicized, for you to tell the author what your favorite lines were!

hitting "add to comment box" will make the contents of the comment box at the bottom of the page match the contents of the floating box.

THIRD, for readers: ao3 savior and ao3 savior config.

is there shit you just never want to see again? say, for instance, you'd love to never see a harry potter fanfiction again. ao3 savior can help!

the way this one works is that you install the 'ao3 savior' script and the 'ao3 savior config' script separately. then when you want to add something to your blocklist, you go to your userscript manager extension (e.g. greasemonkey), go to the ao3 savior config script, and hit edit.

there are some default/example tags included to show the various ways to blacklist or whitelist works, but, for instance, here I've added "Harry Potter*" to the list of tags to exclude. (the * is a wildcard, so it will include "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling" AND "Harry Potter - Fandom" AND any other tags that start with "Harry Potter".)

now, if I'm looking through fics and there's a Harry Potter crossover in the list, it will be hidden, and I'll be able to see why! and if I look at the tag itself...

ah! what bliss.

and FOURTH, for readers: ao3 tweak formatting.

finally: say there's a fic posted by someone who has not yet seen the blessed light of the ao3 posting script doc, and you want to read it, but the extra paragraph breaks really annoy you. or they learned to type in 1931 and so they double-space between sentences. or... various other common typing quirks! this script creates a handly little dropdown that will remove those quirks, just after the notes, after the beginning notes and before the chapter title.

click on "remove line breaks" or whatever, and poof! the extra line breaks are gone.

it's like magic.

I know installing scripts might seem a little daunting if you've never done it before! but it's actually really easy and handy. I know there are other, more in-depth tutorials for installing/using these scripts out there, too, if this is confusing. and probably there are other great tools out there that I don't even know about! I'm just writing this up quickly while I was thinking about it, so I can go to dinner.

I hope at least some of this is useful to you. happy writing, reading, and commenting!

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The OTW is Recruiting for Tag Wrangling Volunteer, Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Indonesian), Tag Wrangling Volunteer (Russian), Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution Volunteer, Support Volunteer and Support Volunteer (Chinese)

Would you like to wrangle tags? Can you read and translate from Indonesian or Russian to English? Would you like to help your fellow fans use AO3? Are you fluent in Chinese? The OTW is recruiting! Learn more at: https://otw-news.org/2p8su59h.

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Hello! I uh have adhd and already forgot if I already submitted a form half an hour ago or if I did not in fact hit send. Sorry!! Do we theoretically get a notification to our email that we filled out the form? I’m happy to fill it out again, I just didn’t want to bombard you with form requests. Thanks for putting on such a cool event.

We don't have the option to email responses turned on (maybe we should?), but I can confirm you did indeed hit the submit button and you're signed up! ❤️

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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Hey, we've opened sign ups! Remember to check out our FAQs before you fill out the form. You won't receive a card until the 20th, when the challenge opens.

Tell all your friends!

Welcome to the third annual summer fic reading challenge! Sign ups will open the week before, on June 13.

And! New this year, we are introducing podfic-specific traits for your bingo cards. You'll be able to choose only fic, only podfic, or a mix of both. We can't wait to get started!

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i cannot emphasize how much fandom interactions are important and how i feel deeply grateful for the people who encourage to spread love. i appreciate people who reblog and comment or send asks to their favorite blogs. i am grateful for people who create appreciation blogs (like bouquets-for-fandoms and plushies-for-fandom). i appreciate people who make spotlight posts for underrated creators. see these kind of things are the pillars of the community. it not only gives a shouout to the creator/blog but makes them feel welcomed in the community and encourage them to do more of what they love. so truly, thank you to everyone on this site who makes people feel seen.

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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Dear skelly,

I already know that you're gonna say that it's fine and that the author doesn't mind but 😭😭😭 when I comment on every chapter of a finished fic and then go read other works right after I feel like I'm stalker or something. Especially if the author is answering to each and every

The author pov is : 25 comments in inbox from the same person 😭

THAT AUTHOR SEEING THE NOTIFICATIONS OF ALL THOSE COMMENTS

RELEASE YOURSELF FROM THE IMAGINARY RULES YOU SET FOR YOURSELF THAT UPSET YOU AND LEAVE THOSE COMMENTS!!!

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Welcome to the third annual summer fic reading challenge! Sign ups will open the week before, on June 13.

And! New this year, we are introducing podfic-specific traits for your bingo cards. You'll be able to choose only fic, only podfic, or a mix of both. We can't wait to get started!

[ficreadingchallenge]

Welcome to the third annual summer fic reading challenge! Sign ups will open the week before, on June 13.

And! New this year, we are introducing podfic-specific traits for your bingo cards. You'll be able to choose only fic, only podfic, or a mix of both. We can't wait to get started!