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As my last post mentioned I'm browsing LOTR fic right now. For reading in my most regular fandoms I'm pretty good about tagging all stories I finish unless they are really short and crop up on my reading list. That is not always so when I revisit one of my older fandoms on a mood.
Then I open a lot of stories, search, click on links, and start reading stuff, but in a much more erratic and simultaneous fashion than my usual reading habit. And bookmarking and tagging does not always happen, because it does seem a bit tedious sometimes. Except then I end up being driven crazy by recalling some bit of a story, which could have been part of any number of stories of the types I've been browsing for, but I don't remember which it was. Looking at the couple I did tag, doesn't bring results, so now I'm trying to go through my browsing history, because I'm sure I must have read it in the last week or two, and I'm trying to reconstruct which stories I read, but of course my browsing history also shows the stories I just clicked to check out, and that are a ton of pages across more than half a dozen archives.
Why is my brain not better at recalling these things? I can't even go to a story finder community, because a) I don't know any for LOTR, and b) I'm not even sure I could turn the confused jumble I'm looking for into something coherent enough even for a finder community. (Yes, my recollection is *that* confused.) I don't remember the characters or which time frame the story took place, or what happened in the story. What I do remember is a phrasing that stood out to me, only I actually don't remember the exact phrase either, except that I'd recognize it if I saw it.
Then I open a lot of stories, search, click on links, and start reading stuff, but in a much more erratic and simultaneous fashion than my usual reading habit. And bookmarking and tagging does not always happen, because it does seem a bit tedious sometimes. Except then I end up being driven crazy by recalling some bit of a story, which could have been part of any number of stories of the types I've been browsing for, but I don't remember which it was. Looking at the couple I did tag, doesn't bring results, so now I'm trying to go through my browsing history, because I'm sure I must have read it in the last week or two, and I'm trying to reconstruct which stories I read, but of course my browsing history also shows the stories I just clicked to check out, and that are a ton of pages across more than half a dozen archives.
Why is my brain not better at recalling these things? I can't even go to a story finder community, because a) I don't know any for LOTR, and b) I'm not even sure I could turn the confused jumble I'm looking for into something coherent enough even for a finder community. (Yes, my recollection is *that* confused.) I don't remember the characters or which time frame the story took place, or what happened in the story. What I do remember is a phrasing that stood out to me, only I actually don't remember the exact phrase either, except that I'd recognize it if I saw it.