lucky me!

[marcicat]

I'm one of this week's lucky 10,000!

Okay, this is one of those things I feel like I really SHOULD have known, and maybe I did know, sort of, at some point? But I saw a post about it on tumblr and suddenly it made more sense, and I tried it, and now I'm lucky AND I have more fics to read!

Here's how I usually find things to read on AO3:
*fandom tags
*ship tags
*other tags, because I love tags
*sorting by kudos
*the bookmarks of an author whose fics I like
*if a fic I like is in a collection, seeing what else is in that collection

But APPARENTLY some people are out there using the ACTUAL AO3 bookmarking system to find recs! You can click the number after 'Bookmarks' and see everyone who's bookmarked the fic, along with who gave it a little heart recommendation, and the notes or tags they added. All of this I sort of basically knew.

I genuinely NEVER THOUGHT to click the username of people who had bookmarked a fic I like, and then check the rest of their bookmarks for more stuff! Brilliant! I am in the lucky 10,000 for sure, except now I have a 50,000 word fic AND a 100,000 word fic in my tabs and I'm also supposed to be in the office today...

Comments

[gremdark]

Aw, yay! It's always satisfying to figure something like that out, even if it's murder on your number of open tabs :)

[marcicat]

SO satisfying! My tabs can take it -- it's good for my brain to have challenges that aren't work-related, lol