There are ads here on tumblr as well. Tiktok is putting warnings on videos of people who are only mentioning what is happening in palestine. Instagram is deleting accounts of people who are reporting straight from gaza.
Biden questioned the number of deaths reported in Gaza, after which the health ministry came out with a report over 200 hundred pages long with personal information on the killed individuals.
24 journalists have been killed in 21 days.
Yesterday internet and phone services in Gaza went down, due to the heavy bombardments.
The voice of the people in palestine is being silenced in every way you can imagine.
So the least you can do, is share what is going on. Use all your platforms. Even this one.
this action is making it unnecessarily harder for anyone using the ao3 website. when i tag, i generally ask these three questions:
what aspect of the content might potentially trigger someone? (FOR FILTERING)
what trope would an audience potentially look up? (FOR ACTIVE SEARCHING)
what other referential data do i have? (FOR ARCHIVING)
number 1 is the most important and you can skip the rest but make sure to tag your content appropriately if you will be using themes like “suicide” “murder” “rape”. yes, it may feel very uncomfortable reading these words straight. but between reading the word “rape” in the tags and getting shocked over graphic depictions of it in the middle of the fic i’m reading because filters didn’t work, i think i would prefer getting queasy for 3 seconds and moving on with my life.
number 2 is for your audiences. be broad as possible when tagging. think of words you would personally use to look up fics you like. for example, would it cross your mind to look up fics using the keyword “dining room”? most likely not even if that’s where your fic’s setting takes place in the most (although, i’m not saying that fans of the “dining room” tag do not exist).
also consider it from the perspective of the reader looking through the tags. is the fic something that the readers of the “dining room” tag are looking for? to further elaborate, we can use the “high school” tag. fans of the high school tag are likely there to read about mushy student romance in a school setting. if the characters are merely high schoolers but the focus of the story is a fantasy setting in another world without academia, then they are less likely to check the fic out.
there is no hard and fast rule for this, but a good starting point would be to ask a beta reader or a friend to summarize your story in three words: genre (e.g. comedy, romance, mystery), dynamic of the characters (e.g. found family, rivals to lovers, established relationship), and the conflict/macguffin/checkhov’s gun/just the THING your story is about (e.g. hanahaki, body switch, fake dating, revenge, overprotective behavior, manipulation, jealousy). if you are unsure of what your story is about, don’t worry as your friend/reader would likely be able to spot what you’re going for anyway.
number 3 helps keep the archive organized. this means putting:
appropriate fandom names (you can look it up beforehand or edit after posting. mcyt stans i’m looking at you, please stop putting “no” as a fandom name as i’ve used every single filter i can possibly think of and i’m still finding philza fics that it is driving me to the brink of losing it) and
appropriate character names (”if i was a major X bias, would i want to read this work?” before you tag X) and
appropriate ship names (have mercy on rare pair shippers. if the focus isn’t on the X/Y ship, you can use the tag “background X/Y” so that it’s filterable but it won’t lead to false hope and tag clutter) and
any other data such as events the fic is made for (e.g. Kinkmemes, Big Bangs, etc; ask the event host!)
this is important so that future users of the archive know where to go if they are interested in a particular event for example. this helps greatly for posterity and is the reason why ao3 is highly regarded as it is: it is a very good archive. let’s all collectively do our work to keep it this way
similarly, please remember that it’s not a grievous sin to have previously committed bad tagging etiquette, and i don’t think it ever will be. but we can definitely enjoy the website more if we all do our part in making the job easier for the volunteer team, as this is a nonprofit endeavor
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE