#mayalaen asks

[mayalaen]

I'm not sure what's going on but between this morning and now I lost HUNDREDS of followers including 60 of my mutuals, 30 of which I interact with regularly 😕

This isn't a thing where it was a bunch of bot accounts that got deactivated. I block those.

Is this happening to anybody else or is this a thing where I suddenly disgusted hundreds of people enough to unfollow?

[mayalaen]

I'm looking for help with simplified Chinese - specifically colors in translation.

I don't trust Google Translate or any of the similar sites with this.

If anybody can help, please let me know 😊

[mayalaen]

dice set suggestions please?

I was a HUGE idiot and let my cousin (not Asshole Cousin) borrow my set to try playing D&D with a group of gamers for the first time.

She 😭 lost 😭 them 😭

They were REALLY pretty and metal and perfectly balanced and I've had them for YEARS and that particular one isn't available anymore.

I'm the type of weirdo who has one set instead of collecting sets, so now I don't have any.

Looking through options, I'm overwhelmed by all the pretties 😍

Does anybody have any suggestions for what I should get? I'm leaning toward purple since it's my favorite color, but there's still a ton of design options and I do like reds and blues too. Not a fan of green.

I like a good weight to them, which is why I chose metal in the past.

Please help!!

[mayalaen]

The older I get the more I realize that something I absolutely love doing for myself and family and friends is probably something I could get paid for.

But it's weirdly specific to the point where i don't even know if there's a title for it.

I love having huge amounts of unorganized data or files (pics, music, video, documents, whatever) dropped on me in a mess and i figure out how to organize it and make it useful for non-tech savvy people or programs.

Recently I've been doing it with around 200gb of fic documents and I love it. I dont get bored or stressed by it at all.

I know there are data entry jobs but this isn't quite that.

Is there even a company that offers this service or a place people look for weirdos to do it?

Do i just shout into the void and hope people give me messes to organize and pay me for it?! 😂

[mayalaen]

How many posts a day do y'all run your queue at?

I've been doing 3 for a long time now, but my queue just keeps getting longer.

How many is too much and starts pissing off mutuals and followers? Or actually how many do you LIKE seeing a day?

[mayalaen]

This isn't a complaint or demand, and I would never directly ask anybody to change how they do things. Because fic is free, and I'm grateful.

And I spent years in fandoms back when writers frequently didn't even list pairings or fic length or summaries at all.

But it's very difficult for me to figure out whether or not I want to read a fic when the summaries are only snippets of the fic itself. Snippets that don't even include key sentences.

Some fandoms seem to do this more than others, but I'm seeing it more and more.

I don't check tags unless there's a snippet summary, but most of the time I can't even figure out what a fic is about from the tags.

Again, I'm not complaining, but I'm asking if this is a trend done on purpose and I'm just not connecting things or missed something.

Is it done so more people read the fic because they want to find out what it's about? Is it a stylistic thing?

If traditional summaries are going out of style, I don't want to fight it like an ass on my own fics.

[mayalaen]

evernote alternative?

What do you use for fic archiving / bookmarking / saving? - Not for writing yourself but for fic other people write.

I've used Evernote since Delicious failed years ago but I'm always on the lookout for something that takes less system resources or works better.

I run Portable Firefox and Evernote from a flash drive for convenience and backup purposes, and Evernote is resource heavy on that poor little stick.

But it also doesn’t seem to be all that much faster on desktop so I dunno.

[mayalaen]

Wayback Internet Archive?

Is there something I'm not understanding about Wayback?

Several writers who have taken their fic down have told fans to use the archive because ALL their fic is on there.

But no matter what I do, I can never find everything.

The most recent writer who said this had 107 fics, but I can only access about 15 of them - I've tried using the main pseud link and the individual fic links.

The archive itself says there's 22 pages archived under that username, but a bunch of the links just say there's nothing saved.

I've tried going back and forth through the various save dates and still nothing.

Am I doing something wrong?

I don't want to ask the writers because they don't want to talk about their fic anymore, but I've asked around on storyfinders, etc. and have gotten all I can.