#on ao3 tagging

[kyri45]

I didn’t realize you were the person who did the fanfiction tag drinks.

ahah yeah that's meeee!!

They are all available as stickers on my RedBubble shop!

Also I did Part 2!

[flamboyantly-understated]

maybe this is just me idk

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[evidently-endless]

where would we be without tag wranglers. this links to ‘not canon compliant’. ao3 volunteers i am kissing you on the lips

[hansoeii]

A latte with lots of love!

[becuzmdsaidineededpersonality]

[fromdove]

seeing my man with his canonical love interest 💔💔💔💔

[murataesque]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[k1tk4ttt]

when you just finished one of the most beautiful fics ever written and you see that the author has a masterlist full of other fics

[regulus-leonis]

AO3 👏 TAGS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 SPOILERS 👏

i’m so tired of authors not tagging correctly because they don’t want to “spoil the fic”

correctly tagging your fic allows readers who DON’T want to read things like major character death, gore, mpreg or whatever may be their squick to filter your fic out from the main ship/fandom tag. not including the correct tags on your fic is harmful to readers and i’m tired of pretending it’s not.

“don’t like don’t read” great! i won’t! tag your fic correctly next time ffs

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(edit, addressing some rbs and replies: using “creator chose not to use archive warnings” IS a valid tag. it means read at your own risk, there are things in this fic that you MAY not like and the author is not to be held accountable for it. and no, you don’t have to tag every minor squick and trigger. but there ARE things that you should tag to allow people to find or sort out your fics- such as major character death, mpreg, stuff like that. tws usually go in the chapter notes at the beginning or end of chapters).

(edit 2: this post was SPECIFICALLY targeting authors who believed that fic tags are spoilers. they’re not, end of discussion.)

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[ao3screenshots]

that's what fanfic is about I'm pretty sure?

[drmelking]

[ao3-shenanigans]

What does the dead dove tag mean?

Wonderful question!

“Dead Dove” comes from this scene in Arrested Development wherein the character Michel Bluth opens a brown paper bag that reads: DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. He looks inside and sees what is in fact, a dead dove. The then says: “Well, I don’t know what I expected.”

In fandom, the tag has come to mean: “pay extra attention to the tags!” And/or “this fic is what it says on the tin!”.

So if, for example, a fic includes the tags: Body Horror, Gore, and Violence along with the Dead Dove: Do Not Eat tag, the author is saying “Hey I’m not joking about these tags! Read at your own discretion!”

The tag acts as an honest intensifier to whatever tags are already in the work, as the author using it wants to give a double warning for their content, that it may be triggering and that the reader should proceed with caution.

One fic tagged with Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, also includes the tags: Seriously, this fic deals with some serious and disturbing content matter, mind the tags

Thanks for asking and happy reading!

[jiimeniita]