Resurrecting my Zero Comment Challenge – to find fics out on Archive of Our Own that have no comments, but deserve a little love. I’m aiming for a couple of searches a week, but life may have other ideas.
If you want to join me – go over to Ao3′s Search Works page – plug in your preferred fandom, character(s), rating and/or pairing, then scroll down to the Work Stats section of the page and type a “0″ in the Comments field – easy peasy!
Once you find a fic that sounds interesting, read it and COMMENT. I know, I know, that’s the hard part! But honestly, even a quick “this was fun!” or “I like your take on <CHARACTER>” or “Great interaction between X and Y” can be enough to make someone’s day.
I’m going to reblog this each time I find a fic that fits the bill – like this one:
Redemption_Arc. A young Clint Barton is caught at a crossroads in his life, with assistance coming from an unlikely source. I think there’s maybe supposed to be more coming, but it’s currently listed as a single chapter? (I’ve made that mistake myself)
This is an astoundingly awesome idea and I’m mad I didn’t come up with it. 😀 I think more people should take up the challenge especially if you’re finding that your regular reading has stagnated lately or if you want to train yourself to comment more.
AO3′s search function is pretty powerful so you can also do cool stuff like sorting by hits, meaning you could get a story with a ton of hits and no comments, which I know is especially dispiriting to some people, or sort by date-ascending so you get the oldest stories with no comments, which is what I did.
if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
These animals are phantoms as well as monsters. They are, because they exist; if they were not, reason would be justified. They are the amphibia of death. Their improbability complicates their existence. They border on the human frontier, and people the region of Chimeras. You deny the vampire, the octopus appears. Their swarming is a certainty which disconcerts our assurance. Optimism, which is the truth, nevertheless almost loses countenance before them.
Victor Hugo, still completely losing what little chill he possessed over the existence of the octopus. (via pilferingapples)
happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists
Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.
Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam
Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.
kototyph 