Interacting with Stranger Things (Steve/Eddie) fandom

• This makes the fifth (?) fic I've opened (and then immediately closed) where the author notes at the beginning admit that the author hasn't watched any of canon.



• I habitually read only complete works, and there are SO many new authors who mark their work as complete when it's actually the first part of a WIP. I refreshed my memory because I was kinda like, HOW can you make this mistake?! - and there isn't a checkbox that explicitly asks whether it's a complete work; rather there's a ticky box for a multi-part work, and the intention is that you click that box and then leave the default ? if you don't know how many you're going to write. I was tearing my hair out at too great a rate until I composed the following missive a few days ago, which is now pinned to the top of my notes app, and I now leave it as a comment on every one of these I encounter:
  

  This is a good start!
  
  But since it's a work in progress, this should say it's chapter 1/?, not 1/1. Right now it's mislabeled as a finished story. When you post the first chapter of a longer story, you should tick the box for "This work has multiple chapters" and then a box will appear that lets you type the estimate for the total number if you know, or just a ? if you don't. Then until you post the last chapter it will automatically be sorted as a work in progress!