#tagging etiquette

[zenzenzence]

HEY! FELLOW AO3 AUTHORS! STOP DOING THIS!

idk how else to illustrate this than making a fake, unpublished example fanfic —

STOP DOING THIS! PLEASE!

POST YOUR ONE SHOTS SEPARATELY! ESPECIALLY IF THEYRE FOR DIFFERENT FANDOMS/SHIPS!

***Tags selected randomly for making a quick example***

Stop posting random one-shots into one work. Stop making Chapter 1 a Table of Contents. Stop tagging multiple pairings/fandoms/additional tags etc when you haven’t even POSTED the chapters they would apply to!

This spams tags and 9 times out of 10 I avoid these fics on sight and don’t even bother digging through the fic to see if the oneshot is something I won’t even want to read.

These fics should be reportable for spam if they aren’t already.

I’ve started completely muting authors on sight for this now because I’ve personally had enough.

#archive of our own #ao3 tags #ao3 #fanfiction #tagging etiquette #otw #organization for transformative works #fanfic #one shot #oneshot collection #stop it #zence.txt #i am at my limit #!!! #don’t bite my head off over the specific tags I used in the example #it’s supposed to be obnoxiously random and all over the place because that’s the point

[kay-elle-cee]

wow i really wish i could find the lily fanart i clicked into the lily evans tag to see

absolutely losing my patience here

DO NOT TAG THINGS FOR REACH. IF YOUR POST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHARACTER YOU'RE TAGGING, YOU ARE DOING TUMBLR WRONG AND YOU ARE PISSING PEOPLE OFF.

#tumblr etiquette #tagging etiquette #lily evans #this is absolutely ridiculous #sorry to whoever drew what I think was Lily with a camera #It looked beautiful but I guess I'll never actually find it because of these dickheads

[purringfayestudio]

understandable but id like to say as a disabled person body horror genre is actually full of disabled authors. the horror of having a body which hurts and also the wonder of inhabiting a body widely considered nonnormative speaks to a lot of us!

Thank you for sharing. I think it's very important that people have an opportunity to explore and express their experiences. Body horror is a diverse topic and there is certainly more to it than we can cover in a single tumblr post.

Regarding my mention of the ethical issues concerning body horror, I was referring to how body horror often perpetuates the fear people have of "nonnormative" bodies and the idea that disabilities are the result of "sin" and are thus used as a visual representation of evil. There is also the tendency for people to label certain traits as "body horror" in an excuse to exclude (or censor) disabled people from the public.

I am also disabled. My body frequently moves in ways I can't control, and bends in ways that hurt and others find unsettling. I have been treated differently because of it. My disability is rarely shown in media except to make villains more frightening, and a part of me dies every time.

The negative use of body horror is certainly different from intentionally exploring the topic in a way that is meaningful to the author and respectful toward disabled people. I think it's fantastic that people are finding wonder through this medium, and honestly I see an element of this exploration in my own fiction writing. There is a big difference between body horror that explores the vulnerability of what it means to be human and the reality of living with disability, versus body horror that pushes the ablest threat narrative.

Sharing creations that intentionally explore body horror to an intended audience is also different from interpreting it in someone or something that was not meant to be (nor appropriate to be) perceived as grotesque. There is an element of consent to being considered horror in order to see it as a good thing. I don't understand how anyone can label someone's non-horror-genre art as "horrifying" and expect it to be well received.

Obviously labeling a plush process is leagues apart from labeling a human being, but there's still something about using that specific terminology on something so utterly vanilla as a fabric plushie being turned right-side-out to "warn others" that tastes sour to me.

#disability #body horror #tagging etiquette #ablism #personal #I wasn't going to get into this but here we are #everything has nuance

[gabessquishytum]

Hi people, please don't send me asks about the whole tagging business. I reblogged the post because I was asked to and because i think that good tagging etiquette is important and polite. I'm not really interested in how filters work or any of the logistics of tumblr. The point I wanted to make in my reblog is that once I have posted and tagged a post, it is out of my hands what happens to it thereafter!

If we're talking about comfort in fandom I happen to think that my comfort is quite important too. I guess that's all.

#tagging etiquette

[slowpokedragon]

i want to fucking scream i hate going into a tag and scrolling past untagged fanfiction or headcanons or rp blogs. PLEASE tag your shit as "fanfic" or "fanfiction" as well as doing "[fandom name] fanfiction". just simply tag it as "x reader" AS WELL AS "[character name] x reader" so that those of us who dont want to see it can filter it. you are actively avoiding filters by refusing to tag things properly, and it isnt fair to the rest of us who just want to scroll a tag for fanart or meta analysis or literally anything else.

#fanfic #fanfiction #x reader #rp #roleplay #headcanons #hc #hcs #tagging etiquette #tag etiquette #click click #tumblr etiquette

[writinginthesecrettrees]

honestly the WORST fucking thing is when a fic does a bait-and-switch.

When it pretends it's gonna be wincest or sastiel, but that's really just the physical and it's all about how emotionally it's really destiel.

Like.

My dude.

Please just TAG IT AS SUCH. Go ahead and throw the physical pairing on, but please please PLEASE add that it's mostly about unrequited destiel.

(i have also seen this bait-and-switch in RPF, where it pretended it was gonna be a j2 fic but was really about how in love Jensen and Misha were and LET ME TELL YOU the author did NOT appreciate commenters telling them "uh, you might want to add a tag onto this")

#fanfic etiquette #tagging etiquette #wank adjacent #sorta #like i get that it's a lot of people's cuppa tea #but it's MY personal NOtp #so please please please #stop with the bait and switch #my click may give your fic one more view #but it is not a happy view #and it kinda ruins my day when i only had time for ONE fic #anti destiel #for safety

[caseoftheblues]

ATTENTION ALL PEOPLE WRITING PERCY JACKSON FANFICTION AND THINKING OF TAGGING IT TRIALS OF APOLLO:

if your fic does not have either apollo or meg (or other toa-specific characters) as the main character: do not fucking tag it trials of apollo

if it is a solangelo fic, simply tag it ✨percy jackson and related fandoms — all media types✨

sincerely, someone who is so tired of, out of 4,229 fics, only 173 (4%) of them containing the tag apollo & meg

thank you :)

#trials of apollo #toa #percy jackson #seriously the 'all media types' tag is there for a reason #use it #your fics will show up i promise #solangelo #pjo #apollo #meg #i promise i am not a solangelo hater i am simply in need of more found family #ao3 #tagging etiquette

[helion-ism]

you guys have to start tagging your posts with #hofas spoilers

I’m so serious, don’t mess this up for readers who want to go in blind

#tagging etiquette

[wander-wren]

oh my god it happened on my dash this time i’m going to rip things with my teeth.

this??? this is not a fucking trigger tag, babes, i’m so tired. i appreciate the effort, truly, a’s all around, but [devolves into guttural anger noises]

sorry. this is. a thing. for me. as someone this tag is supposed to HELP. it does Not.

we saw all those info posts about not tagging flashing things with “epilepsy” right? bc then people with epilepsy trying to find community are instead at risk of having a seizure? yeah? and we saw the psas about how using a cutesy euphemism doesn’t actually help filtering the topic? same principle.

emetophobia is the anxiety disorder. emesis is the latin word for vomit that it and words like emetic and emetophilia come from. search for emetophobia on this site or any similar platform and it is literally impossible to find anything other than potentially triggering posts. it sucks.

you can just say “vomit(ing).” it’s fine. if you REALLY are worried about the word, you can also literally just use emeto. it’s right there. it’s even shorter! win-win-win!

it’s not as big a deal to me on tumblr, bc i don’t believe in looking at/following Content About My Issues bc its not good for me, but i do occasionally scroll the tag on ao3 and it’s so frustrating. i’ve made this post before but obviously i don’t have much reach, so instead i merely suffer.

please tag things correctly before i start chewing furniture, thank you

#bird noises #ao3 tags #tumblr tags #tumblr etiquette #tagging etiquette #ao3 etiquette #emeto mention #<< woah look a tagging example #emetophobia #it’s especially annoying to see the tag on a post that barely mentions being sick #its like….spoiling your spoiler warning or something #anyway i’m sorry i sound insane on this post i have been having this problem for more than a year i am so tired

[brsb4hls]

Hey my dudes, why does the sylki ship constantly get questioned and criticized in it's very own tag?

Like, 90% of Loki discourse on tumblr is lokius already, don't you think it's a bit greedy to try and take over the sylki tag too?

Just stay in your huge ass corner please, there's enough room.

#sylki #loki #loki disney+ #shipping #tagging etiquette

[wolfstargazer]

One of the more interesting things that is different for me having returned to creating fan fiction after so long a break, and posting on a03, is the importance of and the prolific use of tags and tagging on works.

Keep in mind in the *olden days* when posting on fanfiction.net you were limited as to the characters and ship pairings, as well as a general tag for story type that was limited to two genres e.g. romance, drama, angst and that was pretty much it.

I'm curious to hear people's perspectives and attitudes around tagging.

#mauraders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #fanfiction #fanfic #hp fanfic #writing asks #tagging etiquette #tumblr polls #fanfic tags #a03 writer #a03 fanfic

[whumpacabra]

There’s a post going around recently about how the whump community tags for disabled characters and I…have to disagree with its main point.

Simply tagging a post with ‘disabled whumpee’ does not give me enough information to know if a fic will be validating or triggering for me. I need more specific tags to filter out my squicks and triggers, and to identify posts of interest. Specific tags are the keystone of a community that specifically talks about potentially triggering or upsetting content.

For example, I like reading stories with characters that use prostheses and mobility aids. I find these stories relatable and validating as someone with both! But should those posts simply be tagged ‘disabled whumpee’ because it might conflict with the other users of the mobility aids and prostheses tags? I can only find out the nature of the whumpee’s disability by reading, and a negative outcome can at best turn out to be a waste of time or at worst deeply upsetting.

Cancer is a difficult topic for me given my past and current experiences with it. I have the cancer tag and a dozen variants of it blocked. Of course, people on tumblr with cancer or talking about their experiences with it use that tag to talk about it. If someone is writing about a character who has or had cancer, but only tags for ‘disabled whumpee’ I won’t know that I’m getting into a story that will cause me great distress.

I’m disabled. I have severe nerve damage, limited mobility, chronic pain, a plethora of other medical bullshit, and my condition is progressive. Whump is part of how I’ve been learning to deal with and process my struggles, and part of that involves writing and reading about disability in whump.

Do I just block all ‘disabled whumpee’ content and never know if I’m clicking on a story I’ll find relatable and validating or if I’m clicking on a story that will upset me so badly I won’t use tumblr for a few days? No - I block specific tags and specific blogs as necessary. The idea that we should stop using specific tags, when writing about a specific condition or disease, to put everything under one vague blanket is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

I understand the frustration of seeing posts you don’t want to see in a specific tag (the number of x reader headcanon blogs for fandoms I’ve never heard of that I’ve had to block when trying to browse is ridiculous). But at the end of the day if those posts are tagged appropriately (ie. not crosstagged spam in violation of the TOS) you just do what you always do for something you don’t want to see on this site: blacklist, block, and move on.

#whump #whump community #tagging etiquette #beans speaks #it’s fine if you disagree/are changing how you tag your disabled whumpee writing but I’m not so please feel free to block me (genuine) #if you see me in a specific tag you don’t want to see whump writing in #I understand where that post is coming from but also. is we stop tagging specific tags. how the fuck am I supposed to avoid my triggers??? #I just don’t understand tumblr’s block and blacklist options are wayyy more effective than they’ve ever been. #and I don’t see how tagging a post that contains the depiction of apples would be clogging the apple tag? it’s an appropriate use of the tag #do I want to see posts about the fictional mlp character applejack when browsing the apple tag? probably not. #but I understand why the tag search included those posts and why the poster tagged the post with such. I block them and move on. #my blood sugar is low sorry if this is rambly and incoherent and. I don’t know stupid or insensitive? #disabled people are not a monolith we all have different opinions and preferences for how we interact with the topic of our disabilities #and removing specificity for the sake of…inconvenience just seems silly #sorry I haven’t read that post in a few days I might sound like a complete asshole in which case idk send gore and death threats I guess #I haven’t done tumblr discourse since 2015. do people still send KYS or is it all kungpowpenis these days?

[feministfandomgeek]

A kind request to not tag Harringroveson content as Steddie or Mungrove. That way I can go into each of those tags for that content and especially for the Mungrove tag not have to dig through other ship content to find the content I'm in the tag for.

Like I get this site is a shit show but looking through tags is one of the few ways I can find the content I want. Thank you kindly.

#harringroveson #steddie #mungrove #tagging etiquette #please and thank you

[if-confessions]

I had to block so many new no demo WIP blogs to get any value out of using interactive fiction tag. Guys, I'm saying this for your own good: I'm probably not the only one, you are not going to keep getting value out of all that marketing if you'll keep thrashing popular interactive fiction tags with asks like "What dessert RO's like? Would they love PC is they were a worm?". Tag asks with your own blog.

[.]

#tagging etiquette

[blocksruinedme]

For the love of everything blocky, please tag namemc spoilers!

idk if i even want to reblog them now, if it will cause people to rb them untagged? Some people just want to see things happen in the narrative, or avoid drawing false conclusions (skulk!pixlriffs, my beloved, we never knew ye). I come from a much more heavily tagged part of tumblr, so it's already strange to me how many posts are untagged, but spoilers! The big one! Come on, we can do this, we all know about tagging spoilers. <3 <3 <3

That said i'm fucking obsessed with the namemc spoilers i've seen this week ;-)

#namemc #tagging #tagging etiquette #we can do this! #mcyt

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

Reminder for twitter refugees who put content warnings/spoilers at the start of a post and do like 80 blank lines before putting in the actual content:

Tumblr doesnt work like that. Most desktop users dont automatically shorten their posts and while they can press j and k to skip between posts mobile users have to scroll through everything by hand. And putting so many dashes forces ppl to scroll for a long time before getting to the next post. That means not only is the post hindering people who dont care about the warnings, people who do care about the warnings and dont want to see the post have to see it anyway. Because they need to scroll to the next post.

If you want to put a warning at the start of your post, put the rest in a readmore. It hides the rest of your post and gives ppl the option to open the readmore and see the rest of the content. I dont think you can put in readmores on mobile so if youre posting on mobile, or if youre using desktop and just dont want to use a readmore/put your warnings at the start of the post, then you should put the warnings in the tags. That way people who have those tags blocked wont see the content, just that the post is there, and its much faster to scroll through.

Oh and some tagging etiquette: tumblr is a lot looser on the censors than stuff like tik tok or twitter. Please dont replace the letters in your trigger tags with numbers, slashes, asterixes, etc. This just means ppl who have the tag blocked and dont want to see it will see it anyway. Also its hell to read on text to speech software. Similarly, tik tok and twitter lingo like "unalive" or "seggs" isnt used here. If you want to tag, spell it properly or itll bypass the tag block/search system completely. Tumblr isnt going to take your post down i swear

#shut up pandora #tumblr etiquette #twitter #tumblr #twitter refugees #tagging system #tagging etiquette