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)
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
DebetEsse - May 14, 2014 12:58:00 pm PDT #8931 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
§ ita § - May 16, 2014 5:26:23 am PDT #8932 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DebetEsse - May 16, 2014 6:44:23 am PDT #8933 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Possibly the OTW mailing list. I'm not sure.
Amy - May 19, 2014 4:45:10 pm PDT #8934 of 10434
Because books.
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.
SuziQ - May 19, 2014 4:48:45 pm PDT #8935 of 10434
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Now I'm perturbed. I think. I'm not protruding.
askye - May 19, 2014 8:29:17 pm PDT #8936 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
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".
Juliebird - May 20, 2014 1:32:25 am PDT #8937 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
One of the most useless tags I've seen was "Can't tag for this, it's a spoiler" followed by "Can't tag for that either".
Stop being witty and just don't tag for it.
§ ita § - May 20, 2014 5:37:23 am PDT #8938 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
LJ has a way to spoiler cover tags, right? I appreciate when someone says they'll put them in the notes. At least they're trying, because some stuff is...I'm not going to claim triggery, but why ruin an experience and generate dislike towards yourself?
I'd also love to see exercises in third party tagging. I'm assuming wranglers only read tags and normalise them, right, Debet?
Which reminds me--what does "freeform" mean? Sometimes they seem like normal tags, and I'm never sure if it will show up when I do a tag search. Which I do more and more. I'm getting moody as fuck.
Is the OTW newsletter intrusive? Can anyone sign up?
Connie Neil - May 20, 2014 6:33:45 am PDT #8939 of 10434
brillig
Stop being witty and just don't tag for it.
I hate coy tags.
Calli - May 20, 2014 6:37:08 am PDT #8940 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
One series I'm following on AO3 has summaries at the end for people who find specific things triggery. So if you're fine with, say, the violence in some chapters but have major problems with the hospital scenes in others, you can skip to the summary at the end of the hospital chapters and stay up on the plotlines for the series as a whole. I think that's a helpful way to handle things.