I feel like the "if it is <1000 words it's not worth posting" was something I remember seeing around in my FFnet days in the early 00s

This is interesting to hear, because I wasn't aware of this discourse at all! Around that time, as a kid on ffnet, I was posting fics of 300 or 400 words proudly and unselfconsciously. I need to reclaim that attitude, clearly!

Coming up with titles and summaries for all these ficlets had definitely been a challenge! Your ficlet collection strategy is a cunning one.