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!

Or put the Notes at the end of the fic.

Well, the end of the chapter. I know you have Reasons for not getting back to the work more quickly, God know we've all got Reasons.

Notes at the end is an option. But where they display when at the end is hard to avoid, so if you're reading something and the author has a summary at the end of any chapter where there is problematic content (hi, have you met me? I'm the person who is searching for the dubcon and noncon, so this is a lot of my reading) detailing in summary form the problematic content--a common thing these days--chances are you will get stuck seeing them.

I could skin it to hide it, but I don't want to, because I want to be able to turn it on for important notes like translations and occasional footnotes.

As you know, Bob, I share these feels.

The more we talked about it the more committed I got.

detailing in summary form the problematic content--a common thing these days--chances are you will get stuck seeing them.

Yeah. I have "choose not to show archive warnings" checked, because I don't want to know. Similarly, I don't want to be spoiled for the bloody story in the notes. But I suspect that is the trend of fandom.

Man, LOTR fandom was so crazy back in the day. Just shuffling through crack_van (long live crack_van!) and seeing all the pairings wide and yonder fills me with delight. You think crack reached its height in Inception or Teen Wolf? O my friend, LOTR did it all first (and in many cases for the better).

Yeah. I have "choose not to show archive warnings" checked, because I don't want to know. Similarly, I don't want to be spoiled for the bloody story in the notes. But I suspect that is the trend of fandom.

Thus my desire to be able to turn the things off! Jesus, I don't need a summary of EVERYTHING SOMEONE MIGHT BE BOTHERED BY IN THE NOTES. "Blair cuts his hair. He gets into a fight with Jim over it that then turns sexual. Neither of them consent specifically, but both enjoy themselves. Jim worries that he has crossed a line with Blair never the less."

If you've already tagged it, you have warned enough!