Thank you for the primer on using "Work Search: Beta". How much time, aggravation, and ill humor I could have been spared had you posted this ANYWHERE on the AO3 site anytime in the last year or so I am unable to estimate. Until today I thought that AO3's search was too lame to accommodate Boolean terms; and that AO3 was designed for a certain type of fan who enjoyed searching on cutesy tags or unlikely pairings or was able to spend an hour or two on a fast connection paging through a hundred or so pages of tag search results.

So I shall bookmark this post, hell, I think I'll print it out. Who knows when or where I'll find it again.