me looking for fics of my otp: check the categories on ff.net and ao3 run all the relevant character names and every imaginable pairing nickname through google go back to the beginning of every livejournal group's archive scour the personal journals of every fic writer that has ever expressed an interest in the pairing go back to google use every advanced search tool at my disposal to filter out all the pages i've already checked wait what about usenet that's still a thing right