Collected Thoughts

I have, apparently, skimmed through all of Shameless. I've seen it mentioned, knew it was around, never really watched it. Watched some of the original UK show but not a lot. I started watching it and then just skimmed around mostly watching the Ian/Mickey stuff, which means I missed a lot of the show.

How the hell does Frank Gallagher get all the women? I'm very confused.

So now I'm poking around AO3 trying to figure out good stuff to read and I'm about to start poking around Dreamwidth.

I'm really intrigued by Mickey and his character development.

I have a few but new one is people not using the tag Alternate Universe when they are writing an AU.

And Alternate Universe is a tag that can be excluded but only if people tag their fic that way.

I found stories that only mention that it's an AU in the author's notes --not the tags, not the description , etc.

Also if something is tagged "Coffehouse AU" then I have to exclude that tag and there are a lot of AU styles to have to exclude.

Which gets me torn about -why do people use so many tags on their fics, like it's tumblr or instagram tags and then also WHY aren't people using enough tags damnit!