I don't know about other shows, but SPN has so few surnames that it's all Gabriel (Supernatural), Michael (Supernatural), ... that can double the tag length. It's offputting when it's longer than the summary, but until angels adopt patronyms, we're stuck.
I am amused by the gyrations to not call them Milton (fallen angel Anna's birth surname, but do we even know if Anna was her angel name?), or Novak, the name of Castiel's host. Third most popular is Shurley (often spelt Shirley--I'll let Cas pass, but not this--grrr), after the prophet Chuck Shurley. Then we have Godson, Angeles, Krushnik, Collins, and other surnames of the actors which I *hate*.
Yeah, the disambiguation can really add up. Thankfully, right now, I mostly just get Sam Wilson (Marvel).
(The listed fandoms, though, those add up in the MCU. Boy howdy.)
Oh, gods. The SPN people have so much trouble and constant need to coordinate with Abrahamic Religions. It's a whole pile of potential wank that I am glad I am well away from. You don't even want to know about the "Angels are dicks" canonical.
I wrangle Game of Thrones and people keep tagging characters with the family names they have in the story, which is distinctly unhelpful. Because you may mean Arya Stark as a bastard when you use "Arya Snow," but that doesn't mean that the next person who uses it won't have created an original character with that name.
You don't even want to know about the "Angels are dicks" canonical.
Well, Kripke started it!
I'd love to wrangle SPN tags. Where do I apply?
Every once in a while, Ao3 puts out a call for wrangler volunteers, usually looking for specific fandoms, but once you're in, you can volunteer for additional faondoms when a need arises (which is how I got on GoT/ASoIaF)
Where do they put out the calls? On their pages? I've never noticed one, and cleaning up tags--well, they're about the only things I'm tidy about. I love tagging.
they made there way to the street where dean hauled a cab
Sometimes I'm really tempted to draw some of these misspellings. If only it weren't so massively rude. Maybe drawer-art.
Possibly the OTW mailing list. I'm not sure.
My new favorite fanfic line:
Small beads of blood perturbed from Sam’s cock
I don't have any idea what the author was trying to say -- protruded? -- and I don't care.
Now I'm perturbed. I think. I'm not protruding.
I really do like having tags it makes it easier to skim through stories, especially when I'm randomly searching through tags just to see what's up.
But there there are some people who OVER TAG. Seriously I found one story with over 100 tags. I stopped counting, and most of them were doubles. Male Slash, slash, the pairings, the characters names, the characters names with the fandom listed, the type of POV listed three times, Alternate Universe listed three different ways.
And then there are the random phrases or the "apologies" like "don't blame me!" or "this just happened" "I don't even know!" "This turned into something else".
