#you still can’t go look up content for that campaign because unblocking spoiler tags means unblocking spoilers for ALL the campaigns

[mell0bee]

btw!! re: spoiler tags. i’m gonna use [#tlovm] and [#tlovm spoilers] for now, unless we get anything reccomended by the cast or official accounts. (may change to [#lovm] depending on what acronym we decide on).

i’m not gonna be tagging it w anything critical role related, since

i hate having to tag things with like 45 different tags, and with my current system this would make things way worse lol

i think there will be a lot of people who will watch the animated show and nothing else from cr, so using separate tags lets them not have to see us talking about c3 or the Final Thursday block and just get content from tlovm

especially because the main campaign eps are airing around the same time as tlovm and a lot of people (namely me) will be catching up on both on the weekend and might be caught up on one and not the other (me again). which will be really annoying to deal with. i wanna be able to see stuff about tlovm without being spoiled for the c3 eps, and vice versa.

in areas where it’s unclear, like the post talks about tlovm and stuff that happens in c1, i’ll tag it with all my usual c1 tags. and if it’s about stuff that hasn’t happened yet in tlovm i’ll use [#cr spoilers]. i’m also just gonna strongly encourage anyone reading this to start tagging spoilers for c1 stuff that hasn’t happened/aired yet in tlovm as well. tlovm viewers shouldn’t have to get spoiled for this stuff yknow.

i kind of doubt the fandom at large is gonna run with this system and it’s just gonna suck to be someone who isn’t caught up with both or is just trying to watch tlovm and see like any content at all, especially because them airing at similar times means people will tag things with the trending tag, but at least on my blog if you’re a person who’s dodging spoilers for one reason or another you should be okay :D

#critical role #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #bee post #also. as someone who started cr with VM in 2019 it is not easy navigating spoilers in this fandom at all #it’s not like a tv show where you can watch it in a week and be caught up it takes people months or years #and most people do not have a separate tagging system for campaigns so even though you can go in blind to any campaign in any order #you still can’t go look up content for that campaign because unblocking spoiler tags means unblocking spoilers for ALL the campaigns #even navigating the ao3 page too #like when i finished c1 i took a few weeks to look at as much content as i could and got spoiled for the mighty nein in the process #even though i had every mighty nein related tag blocked #and i think i unblocked the mighty nein in around march 2020 yknow when a lot of people were binging it #still had spoiler tags blocked but still got super spoiled #and i fear that’s gonna turn off ppl who just wanna watch tlovm #so yeah my blog is newbie friendly!! it’s why i avoided tagging exu stuff with main campaign stuff since i figured there would be a lot of #new people #OH not to mention people stop using spoiler tags after like. a week #or even just 4 days #which i get it people are busy but like… maybe we should push for more etiquette #tag essay #jesus christ past bee why do u have to put a whole essay in the tags all the time 😭