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askye at 07:47pm on 03/08/2020
askye at 07:47pm on 03/08/2020 I've been reading a lot of fanfic since the Pandemic and all kinds. Kinky stuff, general stuff, fandoms I barely remember anything about , and been branching out trying to find things that may not be on A03 right now or never archived there. But mostly just sticking wtih A03. I had a nice little extension thing that went kaboom and nothing carried over so all the stories I had starred and all the tags I had blacklisted are gone and have to repopulate it.Which is sad because there are a lot of one off stories I may want to read again but.. damn if I'm ever going to remember to find them because I stumbled across them in my quest to read some rare pair or random tag search.
But I have some definite feelings about how stories are tagged and the problems finding things. For awhile I was really craving some nice character pieces and those are hard to find. Some stuff is listed as character study but not a lot and then it's just a matter of .. searching for a character and the rating and excluding a crap ton of tags and relationships and being left with.. like story that looks interesting but the character is only tagged because in the last chapter there is some vague reference to them and so there is a tag...
And then there is the Wall O'Tags thing.. when there is a more tags than story or as many words taken up for tags than the story. I often read on my phone so if I have scroll through like, 2 screens of tags I may never read anything by that author. Seriously people don't have to tag EVERY SINGLE Concept , idea , character , or vague sex act that may happen.
If it's m/m story just tagging it as plot what plot or sex smut or explicit sexual content will tell me there is going to be SEX. Probably (hopefully!) there will be proper preparation or at least if there's not there better be a good reason why. So "anal fingering" doesn't need to be a tag unless it's just fingering and that's the thing.
Other tags I hate are:
anything that says the author doesn't know canon at all
any tag that indicates the author is possibly ashamed of their story
tumblr style tags or whatever that stream of conscious, separated by commas, it makes on sense to me, but it's there because someone you know, thinks it's cool, and so those are all now , separate tags, which, makes no , sense.
Having multifandom whatever with lots of parts and then tagging EVERY SINGLE fandom and relationship and kink or situation so that , you know in that rare pair I was really hoping to read there are 30 search results and 20 of them that are linked together but 19 of them have NOTHING TO DO with the pairing or whatever because there is a 500 word drabble about the pair and that's it. My hopes got up and now they are dashed ...
Tags instead of summaries.
Tagging for a kink that doesn't actually show up in the story. Bondage is not the same as one character lightly holding someone's wrists down on the bed while they kiss them.
And then there is the under tagging or using some cutesy weird phrase so I can't block it or recognize it and stumble into something I reqally don't want to read. I don't like.. no wait, I LOATHE A/B/O stories of any form. Like a generic-y werewolf story I might be ok with but A/B/O anything related with mating cycles and heat and mpreg and all that .. and I keep stumbling into something that isn't tagged clearly and then I have to figure out. ...
Although I'm weird because I do'nt like when people tag a relationship and then tag the people individually (like yeah they are in there and may interact with others I get that) but I really wish that Reader got tagged along with CHARACTER/READER because i hate those stories.
Okay enough of this.. maybe I should start talking about the stories I found and really liked.. in other posts obviously
But I have some definite feelings about how stories are tagged and the problems finding things. For awhile I was really craving some nice character pieces and those are hard to find. Some stuff is listed as character study but not a lot and then it's just a matter of .. searching for a character and the rating and excluding a crap ton of tags and relationships and being left with.. like story that looks interesting but the character is only tagged because in the last chapter there is some vague reference to them and so there is a tag...
And then there is the Wall O'Tags thing.. when there is a more tags than story or as many words taken up for tags than the story. I often read on my phone so if I have scroll through like, 2 screens of tags I may never read anything by that author. Seriously people don't have to tag EVERY SINGLE Concept , idea , character , or vague sex act that may happen.
If it's m/m story just tagging it as plot what plot or sex smut or explicit sexual content will tell me there is going to be SEX. Probably (hopefully!) there will be proper preparation or at least if there's not there better be a good reason why. So "anal fingering" doesn't need to be a tag unless it's just fingering and that's the thing.
Other tags I hate are:
anything that says the author doesn't know canon at all
any tag that indicates the author is possibly ashamed of their story
tumblr style tags or whatever that stream of conscious, separated by commas, it makes on sense to me, but it's there because someone you know, thinks it's cool, and so those are all now , separate tags, which, makes no , sense.
Having multifandom whatever with lots of parts and then tagging EVERY SINGLE fandom and relationship and kink or situation so that , you know in that rare pair I was really hoping to read there are 30 search results and 20 of them that are linked together but 19 of them have NOTHING TO DO with the pairing or whatever because there is a 500 word drabble about the pair and that's it. My hopes got up and now they are dashed ...
Tags instead of summaries.
Tagging for a kink that doesn't actually show up in the story. Bondage is not the same as one character lightly holding someone's wrists down on the bed while they kiss them.
And then there is the under tagging or using some cutesy weird phrase so I can't block it or recognize it and stumble into something I reqally don't want to read. I don't like.. no wait, I LOATHE A/B/O stories of any form. Like a generic-y werewolf story I might be ok with but A/B/O anything related with mating cycles and heat and mpreg and all that .. and I keep stumbling into something that isn't tagged clearly and then I have to figure out. ...
Although I'm weird because I do'nt like when people tag a relationship and then tag the people individually (like yeah they are in there and may interact with others I get that) but I really wish that Reader got tagged along with CHARACTER/READER because i hate those stories.
Okay enough of this.. maybe I should start talking about the stories I found and really liked.. in other posts obviously