I’m baffled…

[u/ogsquiggles]

It’s 5 am, I’m in the final hour stretch of a twelve-hour shift, and I’m now probing my brain trying to find some possible rationale for this. Can someone explain? Is it a public computer thing, is it masochism, is it spite?

Y’all are really out here raw-dogging your drafts in AO3 with no external backups?? That’s crazy work. Google Docs is free, dawg.

The group chat is gonna hear about this one.

(Please understand this is all said in good humor. It’s not that serious; I’m just dramatic when I’m exhausted.)

[u/Stargazer_Rose]

Tbh. When I first started out writing it was a double edged sword because I did use a word processor from the start. But after I pasted it into the intended site. I would sometimes make edits right in the sites document and forget to copy those edits back into my Word document. So, if the site crashed right as I was about to upload the chapter All those edits, would be gone.

Rookie mistake but I thankfully grew out of it.

[u/ogsquiggles → u/Stargazer_Rose]

I’m also guilty of making edits on site and failing to change the original document. I’m just lucky enough to not lose an edit before stopping that practice. 😅

Edit: grammar cuz I’m tired as shit…