out of the frying pan into the friar: a fast food restaurant for monks
In the coming days, we’ll be rolling out a code change that limits the total number of fandom, character, relationship, and additional tags that can be added to a work. This limit of 75 tags will apply to both new and existing works, but no tags will be automatically removed from existing works.
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I’ve seen some disappointed reactions about this, and one thing that is brought up frequently is tagging for triggers and warnings. A lot of people are worried the 75 tag limit will prevent them from tagging all variations of trigger tags.
Well, let me introduce you to the amazing world of ✨ metatags ✨
One of the cool things about AO3′s tagging system is that tags are linked together in a way that if a general metatag is used to filter out works, all the tags housed under that metatag (called subtags) also get filtered out!
For example, the tag “angst” is a metatag for “heavy angst”, “light angst”, “angst & fluff”, etc., so if someone excludes the “angst” tag from their search, any fics with those subtags will also be filtered out. So, if the author didn’t directly tag the fic with “angst”, but tagged it with “heavy angst”, excluding “angst” will hide the fic from you!
So if you are worried about not being able to tag every single variation of a trigger, check to see if the tags you’re adding are subtags of a tag you’ve already added to your fic. Click the search bar at the top > tags, then enter the tag, click canonical, and go to the page for that tag. Here’s a link to the page for the “fluff” tag as an example, it shows all the subtags that get filtered out if a user excludes “fluff” from their search! https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Fluff
Bonus protip: the “sexual content” tag is much better than the “smut” tag for filtering out smut if that’s not your cup of tea. It has a crazy amount of subtags.
This is a great insight. Thank you so much for sharing it! And one reason why this is possible on AO3 is because of the Tag Wrangling team. Actual humans look at your tags and can match them up appropriately under parent tags - so even if your tag isn’t listed but it’s clear what it means, it will still be categorized correctly.
Different sites handle their tags differently. The way you tag on twitter isn’t the same as the way you tag on tumblr isn’t the same as the way you tag on AO3. For example, both tumblr and AO3 allow spaces while twitter doesn’t.
75 tags is actually quite a lot and if you read the linked news post you’ll see just how few fics even get close to that number. We might need to start making choices about which tags to include, but for the most part we’ll all be just fine.
I just want books and tv where femininity and historical feminine clothing and roles aren’t shat on in the name of progressive feminism. If I have to read another book where the heroine complains about her corset or her dress ㅡwhich were worn by every women and unless you were a victorian socialite weren’t organ crushing torture devicesㅡ I will scream. Not every female character has to shun sewing and weaving for a sword! Women’s roles and place in past societies were already undervalued and here we go shitting on the key roles of women in the name of modern progressivism. Someday we will get our turn and our clothes, voices, and roles to be spat on by our descendants and maybe I’ll feel a bit better cause hey we kinda deserve to for what we are doing. Like yes women in historical time periods faced significant social challenges due to their gender but we don’t need to liberate them by making them into the men of that time period.
ao3:
me:
me seeing an aggressively bad take on tumblr dot com: i am going to just block op and move on with my life, it’s not worth the effort
me three days later, to my cat, about said post: AND ANOTHER THING—
Oh greatest of Kings, let one of your Knights try to land a blow against me. Indulge me in this game. The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery
Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami (2012) / The Lighthouse (2019)
Robert Pattinson in Twilight (2008)
He should chonk up and play wolverine
you ever read a fanfic and just sit back and think...someone wrote something THIS good... and then just....published it on the internet....for free.....
My God they actually look like dogs now
Lord, the changes! DO PUGS NEXT!!!
ACTUALLY! A breeder in Germany started to breed healthier pugs called “retro mops” and currebtly ppl are trying to get AKC and UKC to recongnize them as the new standard.
heres the comparison:
Reblogging with updates! Healthy bulldogs AND healthy pugs! ❤️
The Binghamton News, New York, November 27, 1925
don’t know but it’s definitely transmissible because now i have it
i love when people make extremely self-indulgent content that exists for no other reason than that they enjoy it
when i was in elementary school, i thought that the reason we were supposed to capitalize the first letter of people’s names was as a sign of respect, so i always refused to capitalize the name of my fourth grade teacher or george bush, because i did not respect them
lower case (derogatory)
[grabs u and shakes u] i don’t care if a female character is badass, is she IMPORTANT
exactly 👆🏽