Plei, as a side note, there only appear to be about 4 stories on the archive with metal arm fisting-type tags.
So far! I'm pretty sure I've read more than that. Buggers just haven't tagged for it, damn them.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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.
P.M. Marc - Jan 25, 2015 12:33:40 pm PST #9451 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
DebetEsse - Jan 25, 2015 12:35:07 pm PST #9452 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
If you make a bookmark and tag it, that counts and shows up in searches.
SailAweigh - Jan 25, 2015 12:37:54 pm PST #9453 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That's nice to know, Debet. I don't usually tag my bookmarks, but I might start to now I know. That way, if there's a tag I think the author didn't include, but should have been there, I can add it. Nice!
P.M. Marc - Jan 25, 2015 12:38:24 pm PST #9454 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That I did not know!
Man, when I am done with this stupid Push story that I really should go back to working on so I can get on with my life, I am so calling out to the Tumblr ranks in search of metal arm fisting recs so I don't have to try to track down everything I ever read.
Connie Neil - Jan 25, 2015 12:41:00 pm PST #9455 of 10434
brillig
Plus, if you don't like them, you can just ignore the things that use them, so they serve a function for you.
True enough, if they were removed I wouldn't know what stories to avoid.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2015 12:45:05 pm PST #9456 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That's always been my approach - if those melodramatic and overly twee tags weren't there, I might not have the UGH, DO NOT WANT! reaction until I've wasted time reading part of the actual fic!
Atropa - Jan 25, 2015 1:23:03 pm PST #9457 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Can I petition you to do a wholesale dump of any tag with the variant of "My feeels, I show you them" or "I don't even"?
Whereas in the fandoms I read the most, those tags mean I'm in for hilarious crack. Bandom represent! (In other words, throw your cameras in the air and wave 'em 'cos you just don't care )
(PWentz is not an emotional role model.)
P.M. Marc - Jan 25, 2015 1:51:01 pm PST #9458 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Nah, he's not.
A lot of those tags are, I've found, very self-aware self-mockery. At least in my fandoms.
It's a cultural shift thing, too, as more and more of media fandom is involved via Tumblr and have become accustomed to using the free-form Tumblr tags for communicating.
I mean, in the one heavily-tagged piece of Tumblr-only fic I have up, these are my tags:
#nick fury #mcu clone club #fic #I have no idea what I am doing here #except for epic procrastination #send in the clones
Which makes hilarious sense in the context of when and where it was written and posted (during the period where "HYDRA HAS CLONES OF EVERYONE! WHEE!" was a thing, and while I was supposed to be writing something else).
Connie Neil - Jan 25, 2015 2:06:06 pm PST #9459 of 10434
brillig
What is the meaning of the #I have no idea what I'm doing here tabe?
P.M. Marc - Jan 25, 2015 2:10:50 pm PST #9460 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Just that I accidentally over a thousand words of ridiculous clone Fury because reasons.
Similar to #what is this even? or #yeah I don't know either or #well that happened.