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!

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.

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.

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!

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.)

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).

What is the meaning of the #I have no idea what I'm doing here tabe?

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.

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.

Totally. It's been an adjustment, but it isn't that far off from what people would tag in LJ/DW when the function became available. The fact that AO3 as a whole can organize fic around fandom, pairing, rating, etc is still pretty miraculous for me. Particularly so because I've been going back to LOTR stories, circa the early aughts, and while a surprising number of the links still work, more are down.

And comparatively the work it took to find stories back then (get offa my lawn!) is nearly worth the loss of ignorance from the hypercontextual world of AO3.

Although I do sincerely wish there were a way to turn off automatic display of "Notes" especially when the author is writing a WIP. I genuinely do not give a good shit about the weather or what's going on with your guinea pig; I just want to read the next bedamned chapter of your idfic.

Although I do sincerely wish there were a way to turn off automatic display of "Notes" especially when the author is writing a WIP. I genuinely do not give a good shit about the weather or what's going on with your guinea pig; I just want to read the next bedamned chapter of your idfic.

As you know, Bob, I share these feels.

So much.

You got to hear me rant about it complete with examples, even!