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I wrote a fic, and I'm almost finished and I hope to upload it soon. It's pretty long, and I've been working on it for over two years. I love it, it's one of my babies.

Now, as you might guess, comments are incredibly precious to me. I've written other stories, and there are comments that are several years old that I still go back to. Sometimes because I need inspiration, sometimes just because I need some positivity in my life. I'm so incredibly thankful for every single one.

The thing is, with my new fic, I feel like it would be better to post it in a couple, maybe three or four, pretty long chapters, so in big chunks. It feels better to me. But on the other hand, I'm pretty sure people react only once a chapter. And I think I'll find out more about what they think about specific parts if I split the chapters up. Also, if it's just finished within a couple weeks, no one is going to read it after that.

It kinda feels wrong to only do that for the comments, but on the other hand, there's so much work in it. I've been working on it for years, and I feel like I want it to be seen as much as possible. I don't know if there's a (ethical) right answer, I was just curious about your thoughts, I guess.

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You have no way of knowing this, anon, but I write adult education courses for a living and I've recently been working on one related to Ethics as a practical skill and regulatory requirement.

So I looked through your stated issue here, and I ran it through the ethical decision-making framework that is the basis for the course I've been writing, and you're actually fine.

The reason why I say that is because no matter which choice you provide, you are still giving your readers the story in its entirety. You are not tricking or fooling them into clicking something that will steal their data or their money. You are not feeding them the first three chapters and holding the fourth one hostage until you receive enough comments to release it.

All you are suggesting doing is separating the story into more chapters than you, as the author, think it actually needs. That's your prerogative as the author. Part of your job is determining chapter breaks, and how you make that determination is entirely up to you.

People who prefer longer chapters can read your work in Entire Work mode. People who prefer shorter chapters have a better chance of reading it at all. (I say this as someone who has had an 85K oneshot in my Marked for Later for 6 years now and has never actually opened it because ohmygodthat'ssolong)

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it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

If you want to follow the progress of this tournament, here is the spreadsheet for the Tumblr Squid Game special:

If you want to follow the progress of this tournament, here is the spreadsheet for the Tumblr Squid Game special:

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

link to the specific video from the screenshot above here:

it's part of their series "A People's History of Native America," playlist link here.

and while I'm here I'll plug some other channels because PBS does solid work. also, iirc they are (...were? I'm not actually sure what applies to them now that they've been defunded) legally required to include captions and they actually do that, so you won't run into auto-generated nonsense.

I haven't checked out PBS Documentaries yet, but they have some stuff tackling similar topics. (I am adding things to my watchlist as we speak.) channel link here.

PBS Terra doesn't pull punches on climate change. channel link here.

PBS Eons has some super cool videos on the history of life on Earth, channel here, and Storied does awesome work on linguistics and mythology, channel here.

aaand while we're talking about defunded USA public media that doesn't pull punches when critiquing our history and government, I am once again going to plug a couple NPR podcasts. Throughline does deep-dives on history, culture, laws, and so on (link here); I'm especially partial to their We the People miniseries, which covers our rights from the Amendments. Code Switch covers culture, focusing on race and minority groups, and has been doing some especially good coverage on what the Trump administration's fuckery means on a practical level (link here). (these aren't the only NPR podcasts that talk about this stuff, but they're the big ones afaik.)

What critters are common in your neighborhood, but really exciting to visitors?

My contribution to the Melanin Beam Challenge by @creatingblackcharacters (I have learned so much from your blog thank you!!)

Also a nice addition to my collection of Star Trek women.

Close-up photographed under a different light