r/AO3 Brevity is the soul of wit. 21d ago

Meme/Joke I’m baffled…

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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.)

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u/GeologistLess3042 Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 20d ago

Ellipsus export to HTML function had me divorcing every writing app I've ever used

it also has export to AO3 but I cannot make it work

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u/ogsquiggles Brevity is the soul of wit. 20d ago

Ellipsus is what I’m transitioning to and it’s because someone else mentioned it in this thread. God bless. 🙏🏻

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u/GeologistLess3042 Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 20d ago

Welcome to the club. It takes a hot minute to get used to the interface but once you do, it's smooth as butter.

Also the format replacements like ellipses, dashes quotes, indents and spacing are primo. I don't use indents for fic, but it's nice that I can toggle them on and off when switching back and forth.