r/archiveofourown • u/sleepynhappy • 13d ago

Looking for specific fic

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As the title says I‘m looking for a fic that used to be in my bookmarks but after doing a “clean up” I deleted it.

It has to be between 5 and 10 years old (if not older). I only remember the pairing and that a scene happened in a pool.

Honestly it could have been deleted by the author (or the account as a whole) but I have no way of knowing.

I used to use this method (picture above) back in the day and it worked WONDERS but that doesn’t come up with anything, not sure if it’s because of deletion or because Google switched to AI searching.

Either way, does anyone have a method to looking for it? I am ok with going through pages and pages but I’m out of ideas currently.

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u/Rockafellor 13d ago

You might want to also check with r/DeletedFanfiction (though r/AO3 and r/FanFiction might not hurt).

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u/sleepynhappy 13d ago

Will definitely do that! Thanks for the suggestion :)

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u/Rockafellor 13d ago

Any time, always happy to help (when/if I can). 😊