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Blog Update

I know that I’ve been MIA for the past week and I apologize for that. I’m still very much heavily involved in the #SaveShadowhunters campaign and have a few time-sensitive projects that I’m working on and, as I have a few things going on behind-the-scenes professionally, I need to finish those as soon as possible.

It looks like I’ll be starting another part-time job in the near future and that is going to limit the amount of time I’m able to post. I’m not going anywhere, I’m not giving up on the blog (or #SaveShadowhunters), but the amount of time I’ll be spending online will have to decrease in order to focus on my professional success. I’ll talk more about that here once I get the all-clear, but I’m really excited about this new chapter.

That being said, things are going to still be touch and go for while longer, at least until I get everything sorted out, get settled in, and find a revised balance between my personal and professional lives. I can only ask for your understanding as I work all of this out.  

In the immediate future:

  • The September Analytics will be posted as soon as I can finish them, hopefully by the end of this coming weekend at the very latest.
  • Last Friday’s installation of the You Pick the Tag Event will be posted today in order to keep the event on schedule. The next installation will still be this Friday.

Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

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New Fillable Form for Finding Fics

I was doing a bit of housekeeping on the blog this morning and realized that there has been an influx of requests for finding a specific fic. While I’m more than happy to try to track them down, quite a few of them have been fairly vague and/or they do not include information that I can use to search for them on A03. This makes it extremely difficult (and less likely) for me to find them.

As a result, I have created a Google Form in an attempt to make this process easier and more likely to be successful. Please answer as many of the questions listed on it as you can in order to help me find the fic you’re looking for.

You can find the form by clicking here or clicking on the link provided on the Ask page.

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malecficlibrary:

Anonymous asked: Hi. I was wondering, in your additional relationship tags, if you could have a tag for Alec & Izzy? I noticed you’ve reblogged some fics that focus on that, and I’d love to read more, but I wasn’t sure how to find them.

Hi! Yes, I’ve definitely recced some fics that focus on their sibling relationship. You’re right in that trying to go through the Izzy Lightwood tag can be tricky, because that includes fics where she’s anywhere from briefly mentioned to a full-fledged character making an appearance. It’s not as specific as an Alec & Izzy tag would be, so I think this is a very good idea.

However, if I’m going to do this I’d like to feature other relationships as well, for both Magnus and Alec. If you or anyone else would like to see other familial relationships and/or friendships included in this, please comment on this post, message me, or take part in the Google Forms poll that I just created. I’ll leave it open until Tuesday at 9:00 PM EST.

I fully intend on doing this, but I simply don’t have the time to re-tag fics at the moment. My next month outside of Tumblr is going to be incredibly busy and it’ll be all that I can do to promptly create and post recs and keep track of the Author Appreciation Day sign-ups. So please be patient, as I will transition this element into the Tags Index page but it’s going to take some time.

Thank you all so much for participating in the poll! Now that it’s closed, I wanted to give a brief update. Based on the results, these are the familial relationships and friendships that will be represented on the Tags Index page:

  • Alec & Aline Penhallow
  • Alec & Catarina Loss
  • Alec & Clary Fray
  • Alec & Izzy Lightwood
  • Alec & Jace Wayland
  • Alec & John Underhill
  • Alec & Luke Garroway
  • Alec & Madzie
  • Alec & Maia Roberts
  • Alec & Maryse Lightwood
  • Alec & Max Lightwood
  • Alec & Max Lightwood-Bane
  • Alec & Rafael Lightwood-Bane
  • Magnus & Catarina Loss
  • Magnus & Clary Fray
  • Magnus & Izzy Lightwood
  • Magnus & Jace Wayland
  • Magnus & Luke Garroway
  • Magnus & Madzie
  • Magnus & Maia Roberts
  • Magnus & Max Lightwood
  • Magnus & Max Lightwood-Bane
  • Magnus & Rafael Lightwood-Bane
  • Magnus & Ragnor Fell
  • Magnus & Raphael Santiago
  • Magnus & Simon Lewis

They have already been added under the Additional Canon Relationships heading and more tags will be added as needed.

As I said above, it’s going to take some time for me to go back and re-tag all of the previous fics that have been recced so please be patient. However, new recs will begin to feature this category on May 1st.

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Blog Update: New Custom Pages

As referenced in this post, I’ve been playing around with custom page themes for the last few weeks. You’ll notice that I have made several of them live tonight, including the Ask Page, About Page, Tags Index Page, and Collections & Events Page. I have tried to double check all of the links, but obviously this has been a huge project and I may have missed something. If you find that a tag isn’t working or is incorrectly linked, please do not hesitate to let me know and I’ll look into it as soon as I can.

I am still working on two matching pages for Canon Universe Series and Alternate Universe Series, which will replace the current pages, as well as another that will house all of the Author Appreciation Day 2.0 information when it is released in about a week. Stay tuned!

You’ll notice that the custom pages for 

Canon Universe Series, Alternate Universe Series, and the Authors Masterlist are now live. I have also created one for Author Appreciation Day, which will be updated with this year’s information when the announcement is released this Tuesday. As always, if you find anything that doesn’t work properly please do not hesitate to let me know. I will look into fixing it as soon as possible.

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Blog Update: New Custom Pages

As referenced in this post, I’ve been playing around with custom page themes for the last few weeks. You’ll notice that I have made several of them live tonight, including the Ask Page, About Page, Tags Index Page, and Collections & Events Page. I have tried to double check all of the links, but obviously this has been a huge project and I may have missed something. If you find that a tag isn’t working or is incorrectly linked, please do not hesitate to let me know and I’ll look into it as soon as I can.

I am still working on two matching pages for Canon Universe Series and Alternate Universe Series, which will replace the current pages, as well as another that will house all of the Author Appreciation Day 2.0 information when it is released in about a week. Stay tuned!

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malecficlibrary:

Update: Author Masterlist

In an attempt to feature another organizational method for the blog I have created the Author Masterlist, which includes every author that has been recced at least once by this blog. 

The good news? Upon calculating the number of authors that would need to be listed, I realized that the works of 480 authors have been recced in the last 13 months! The bad news? Tumblr’s page feature apparently doesn’t like having that many links on a single page, because it won’t allow them to remain intact when I save it.

In order to compensate for this, I have created four text posts that list sections of the masterlist alphabetically. They will be posted shortly and I will be working on linking them to each other, as well as creating a button for the sidebar. Please be patient as I make these adjustments. Thanks in advance!

Update: Everything should work properly now, but if you find something that doesn’t please do not hesitate to let me know. Thanks for your patience!