Jeff Bezos Didnt Even Explode :(

Jeff Bezos didn’t even explode :(

This is magnificent

*throws a bath bomb into a marshy bog & bathes there until my bones dissolve*

I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

honestly even the highest concept sci-fi seems tame once you learn BioSteel™ Goats exist irl

Thinking Critically

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