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Everybody go see Superman in theaters NOW

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❝ Now The Kit Kat Club is proud to present a very beautiful young lady. She is so beautiful, and so talented, so charming . . . l have only yesterday said, '' l want you for my wife. '' And she said, '' Your wife, what would she want with me ? '' l give you that international sensation . . . Fraulein Sally Bowles ! ❞

Cabaret ( 1972 ) dir. Bob Fosse

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You know, I never actually considered the implications of Cass vs The Ventriloquist. I imagine she'd have trouble with punching Wesker in the face because he's kind of an innocent victim. It'd be unsettling for her to fight a villain who's body language is constantly telling her "please don't hurt me, he made me do it I swear, I didn't have a choice" and he completely means it. And Scarface himself would probably be offputting as hell too, he's an inanimate object that thinks & speaks and yet... doesn't.

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I'm noticing some people on reddit really struggling with all the "errors" Waid made in NHotDCU and I think perhaps they don't understand that 1) the comic is not going to be a ginormous comprehensive perfect list of everything that ever happened in comics and 2) it's a retcon book intentionally designed to retcon and tidy up the last decade or so of comics.

Like idk, I don't think he's perfect and incapable of mistakes, but I think you're confusing intentional streamlining for errors and deliberate room for (future) interpretation

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(Not including Gotham/Blüdhaven people because they’re already more of Batman characters than most. Also they would be taking up most of the poll)

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"I asked ChatGPT" OK well I ran it through the Bat Computer and it looks like Mr. Freeze is hiding out in the abandoned ice cream factory.

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THROUGHOUT!!THE YEARS

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imagination!

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Power went out due to the storm, so now is the perfect time to dive into reading Dracula

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With Poison Ivy solicited through issue #36, I’m curious:

By this, I’m not trying to speculate on how much longer we think this book will go on for, but if G Willow Wilson decided that she’d told all the Poison Ivy stories she had in her for now, do we think DC would get a new writer for the title or do we think it would it just end?

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My current “Hello World” roadblock is trying to figure out how to incorporate the events of Blind Justice in a way that lets Barbara react to the relevant events (because there’s meat there! She hasn’t seen Bruce since Jason’s funeral! Then Bruce gets arrested, then shot! Jim’s having Big Feelings that Babs would be observing and having her own thoughts about!) without losing the thread that this is Barbara’s story, and these peripheral events cannot supersede her narrative arc.

I suspect the answer is to excise the 2-3 days allocated to Blind Justice—I feel that many readers wouldn’t mind its absence, given that it’s not a particularly well known story in the popular consciousness—but I’m waffling. Easier to just keep moving forward, but I can’t help but feel there’s something there I’d be missing by not figuring out how to balance it

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Just finished Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear and was absolutely delighted. It’s very must a political drama in the immediate early days of the Empire, but it had all the Mon Mothma and Bail Organa character beats I could have hoped for. I feel that Saw Gerrera was the least explored of the three “tentpole” characters, but I think that was an effect of the outsider POV observing Saw.

I really appreciated the narrative’s resistance from outright valorizing any of the main three—all are trying to do what they think is right, but in the messy afterbirth of regime change what constitutes as “right” or even “good” can quickly get lost and painfully subjective. At the same time, I’m glad Freed didn’t nihilistically punish the desire to do good; our heroes end the novel with a clearer vision of the Empire and what they must do for the next 18-odd years.

All in all, I can’t wait for the next book!

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I know tag wranglers do a lot of work connecting tags etc. Is there anything authors can do to make their jobs easier for them like trying to mostly use canonical tags or not making tag comments?

Thanks!

This is a great question, and I'll do my best to answer it but I do hope that some wranglers add on in the notes! I'm also just going to preface this with the fact that you should still tag however you like to tag. This list isn't meant to be a checklist or anything. It's just info I've picked up over the years and you can take or leave each piece as you see fit.

Okay, so the first thing that most non-wranglers should know is that wranglers see tags separately from the fic. They get a big bin full of tags to sort through and match up in the system, but they'll only see your fic and the other tags you've added to it if they decide to go look.

That's important to know because sometimes a user will tag something like [character] is so sexy and then also tag by which I mean they're a huge dork. The wranlger won't see that second tag and won't know that they're connected so your sarcastic tag will end up synned (matched up to) sexy!Character or whatever the canonical is, as if that was the meaning you were going for.

Another good thing to know is that tags can only be synned if they only have 1 idea in them. So if you tag, say, [character] is gay and autistic then the wrangler can't actually syn that to either [character] is gay or character is autistic because it only half-fits either tag. To have them synned in the database, you would need to tag those two ideas separately.

You might have already seen the post I made referencing the fact that you don't have to tag multiple versions of the same idea (unless you want to for the aesthetic) because the synning that wranglers do makes sure that tagging one idea allows users to filter for all versions of that idea. But in case you didn't know that, now you do!

Wranglers are often members of the fandoms they wrangle, but they aren't always. Sometimes they'll take on a fandom that doesn't otherwise have a wrangler because they like to do research or because they like small fandoms or for many other reasons. But that means that if you're tagging your OCs by name, you should add (OC) to the end so that they know it's not a canon character that they aren't familiar with. This is double true in huge fandoms like Star Wars where there are millions of canon characters and just as many OCs.

Wranglers don't "seed" tags in fandoms. For a tag to exist, users need to create it. The rule of thumb is at least 3 fics from 3 separate authors, but that's very much the minimum and in fast-moving or huge fandoms the bar is probably higher. Also, for brand new fandoms, it's entirely possible that they won't know you exist until you tell them. Back in January I was the first person to write in a brand new fandom so I knew I had to start the tags, and I waited until there were 25 or so works by 15 or so creators before I emailed Support because I know I have to be patient - but I'm still impatient by nature lol.

Another thing to know is that tags are kind of like proton packs - they can't cross the streams. If you put a tag in the Character field by mistake, wranglers can't move it to the Additionals. This can also work in your favour, though, because if you have a minor character or minor relationship that you want to tag because there's some kind of fandom drama happening and people want to be able to avoid them, you can tag them in the Additional Tags so that people can know they're in there, but the people who like that character or ship can still filter the Character and Relationship tags without seeing a bunch of works that don't really focus on them.

This got super long, so I'll end with your question about tag comments. I know people worry that it makes extra work for tag wranglers if you get all chatty in your fic tags but I've been reassured by more than one wrangler over the course of several years now that it's no extra work. They just shovel those tags into the gaping maw of the Unfilterable Beast - which is the same thing they do with those tags that have multiple concepts in them. If it can't be synned, then that's where they go.

(keep tagging that way, though, if you like to because that's how new concepts get created and eventually canonized)

Alright, I that's all I can think of off the top of my head, and the list was actually longer than I thought! Wranglers: please do add on with other things you wish users knew, and please correct me if anything has changed since the last time I delved into this topic!

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I both expected you to come and am surprised to see you, Son of Hades

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I know tag wranglers do a lot of work connecting tags etc. Is there anything authors can do to make their jobs easier for them like trying to mostly use canonical tags or not making tag comments?

Thanks!

This is a great question, and I'll do my best to answer it but I do hope that some wranglers add on in the notes! I'm also just going to preface this with the fact that you should still tag however you like to tag. This list isn't meant to be a checklist or anything. It's just info I've picked up over the years and you can take or leave each piece as you see fit.

Okay, so the first thing that most non-wranglers should know is that wranglers see tags separately from the fic. They get a big bin full of tags to sort through and match up in the system, but they'll only see your fic and the other tags you've added to it if they decide to go look.

That's important to know because sometimes a user will tag something like [character] is so sexy and then also tag by which I mean they're a huge dork. The wranlger won't see that second tag and won't know that they're connected so your sarcastic tag will end up synned (matched up to) sexy!Character or whatever the canonical is, as if that was the meaning you were going for.

Another good thing to know is that tags can only be synned if they only have 1 idea in them. So if you tag, say, [character] is gay and autistic then the wrangler can't actually syn that to either [character] is gay or character is autistic because it only half-fits either tag. To have them synned in the database, you would need to tag those two ideas separately.

You might have already seen the post I made referencing the fact that you don't have to tag multiple versions of the same idea (unless you want to for the aesthetic) because the synning that wranglers do makes sure that tagging one idea allows users to filter for all versions of that idea. But in case you didn't know that, now you do!

Wranglers are often members of the fandoms they wrangle, but they aren't always. Sometimes they'll take on a fandom that doesn't otherwise have a wrangler because they like to do research or because they like small fandoms or for many other reasons. But that means that if you're tagging your OCs by name, you should add (OC) to the end so that they know it's not a canon character that they aren't familiar with. This is double true in huge fandoms like Star Wars where there are millions of canon characters and just as many OCs.

Wranglers don't "seed" tags in fandoms. For a tag to exist, users need to create it. The rule of thumb is at least 3 fics from 3 separate authors, but that's very much the minimum and in fast-moving or huge fandoms the bar is probably higher. Also, for brand new fandoms, it's entirely possible that they won't know you exist until you tell them. Back in January I was the first person to write in a brand new fandom so I knew I had to start the tags, and I waited until there were 25 or so works by 15 or so creators before I emailed Support because I know I have to be patient - but I'm still impatient by nature lol.

Another thing to know is that tags are kind of like proton packs - they can't cross the streams. If you put a tag in the Character field by mistake, wranglers can't move it to the Additionals. This can also work in your favour, though, because if you have a minor character or minor relationship that you want to tag because there's some kind of fandom drama happening and people want to be able to avoid them, you can tag them in the Additional Tags so that people can know they're in there, but the people who like that character or ship can still filter the Character and Relationship tags without seeing a bunch of works that don't really focus on them.

This got super long, so I'll end with your question about tag comments. I know people worry that it makes extra work for tag wranglers if you get all chatty in your fic tags but I've been reassured by more than one wrangler over the course of several years now that it's no extra work. They just shovel those tags into the gaping maw of the Unfilterable Beast - which is the same thing they do with those tags that have multiple concepts in them. If it can't be synned, then that's where they go.

(keep tagging that way, though, if you like to because that's how new concepts get created and eventually canonized)

Alright, I that's all I can think of off the top of my head, and the list was actually longer than I thought! Wranglers: please do add on with other things you wish users knew, and please correct me if anything has changed since the last time I delved into this topic!

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Eeeeeek, big interview today.

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Literally just learned there's a way to mark the date you read a comic in LOCG. Are others using this feature? I've mostly just been marking comics "read," because that button was easier to push! I do like some granular data, though...