#i hate to maintag this... but... blog organization

[al-luviec]

starting the month off with a terazaki art dump

[youmustfixyourheartt]

when do you think gertrude decided she was going to bind gerry into the book? was it watching him sleep in the hospital bed not knowing if he would even make it through the night? was it after the doctors told her how much time he had left? or maybe it was as he lay there properly dying, taking his last breaths, the last person she had slipping away from her forever. maybe only after he died, that horrible silence drove her to hop the fence. does she think of herself as selfish?

[best-transgender-character]

sorry to harp on this but uh. people not showing consideration for one tag is entirely not an excuse to make it worse for others? generally speaking i dont think a "least favorite character poll" is a good idea unless youre genuinely trying to just create the most toxic hellscape imaginable but the least you could do is not broadcast peoples insults to every character tag available. because at this point regardless of whos actually sending the asks you are kind of the problem here. its not even like its hard to not maintag people saying a character is the worst ever. its in fact very easy not to be a dick! sadly i think you may be a lost cause on this one all things considered but oh well. i hope you have fun with your blogging & i bid you adieu

look im not gonna stop tagging posts on this blog. its important for organization and filtering. i literally tag it all with character hate. if it bothers you you should filter that tag or block me

[junietuesday]

see on first listen i just could not comprehend how someone like sparrow oak garcia could marry and have kids with someone like rebecca swallows. but tbh? i think it does make sense that sparrow, as someone who would have been left to try and be the calm peaceful one and mediate between his brother and dad, was drawn to someone like rebecca, a centrist, aka someone who doesnt want to commit to any one side and who (theoretically) represents an equal mediation between parties. rebecca’s lack of vehement passion for one side or the other of whatever issues was probably a refreshing relief if sparrow was used to constant conflict

[beetlemancy]

The thing that drives me crazy about all of this is that anti tags exist for a reason. It's cool if people don't like a ship, but maybe use the anti tag and don't maintag the ship. I'm trying to ignore all the negativity, but it's hard today. Sorry. I just had to vent.

Its cool, we’re all venting over here. I woke up mad as hell, personally. This is just... god, its just basic fucking manners, y’know? And I love the people who use them! But they are SO few and far between. Usually the excuse is something like ‘but this is about CR so why wouldn’t I use the tags its about?” as if the tagging system is used that way at all anymore - like its not almost exclusively a way to get your message out to people and form groups. If you need your own personal blog organization, use a different tag like “cr” even? It’s less letters! Easy to type! Less drama in the maintag so we can all see the fanart and read the meta without seeing all the whiny bitching, queer gatekeeping, and actual player hate!

[pilferingapples]

First Five Tags Please

I feel like I haven’t seen an Intro To Tumblr post going around in a while and we all know Tumblr Staff doesn’t tell us a single solitary thing, so here is a Useful Thing To Know About Tagged Search and Maintags, for New Users: 

-”tagged search” is the search you’ll get with tracked tags. It looks like this : “tumblr. com/tagged/ Whatever Thing You Want To Find” , like  “tumblr.com/tagged/potatocat” 

-It’s more targeted and generally more useful for relevant results than searching tumblr with “search” (which is mostly useful on individual blogs IME but I digress)

-on any new post, only  the first five tags go into the Tagged search. So a post tagged 

#haha #comics #red #blue #potatocat 

will show up in the “tagged/potatocat” search; but a post tagged 

#haha #comics #red #blue #funny #sneakers # potatocat 

will not.  

- this only matters with new posts; reblogs don’t show up in /tagged searches at all. 

- What this means is if you want your art/fanwork/etc to be easily found, please tag your fandom or subject matter in the first five tags!

- if you want your art/fanwork/etc to be easily found, please tag your fandom or subject matter in the first five tags!

-TAG YOUR FANDOM OR SUBJECT IN THE FIRST FIVE TAGS 

please I am begging you,  as someone who is in the fandom tags all the time and still misses so much  because the OP didn’t maintag it. As someone who sees sad fan artists heartbroken because no one has commented on their incorrectly tagged  work.  THE FIRST FIVE TAGS. USE THEM AS YOUR BANNER.  Tag Chat is great but save it for Tag #6 and later on your original posts!

( - by the same token, it’s a piece of Old Tumblr Etiquette that anything tagged after  the first five tags is understood as semi-private.  The first five tags are an invitation to open discussion/debate; the others are for personal organization/talk with mutuals, courtesy for blacklists, etc.   Arguments, conversations between mutuals, Character/Ship hate, personal news or rambling, WIP posts, whatever-- if it’s Tag 6 or Later, by this rule, people discussing it are doing the courtesy of getting the discussion out of the main square and should not be treated as intrusive.  This rule was never followed universally and is even less so now, since non-tag search has been in use, but when people say “don’t tag hate” or “keep it out of the maintags” or use five obvious filler tags before tagging the real topic, that’s what’s going on.)

- but most of all please maintag your fanwork please 

this post brought to you by me telling three artists in the past week why I couldn’t find their art in the tags 

live,  laugh,  LIST YOUR FANDOMS IN THE FIRST FIVE TAGS

thank you.