#the exception is the poor edward tag bc i DO stalk that LMAO

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Please disregard my ask about spoiler tags lmao I was looking at a reblog and not your actual post. Thanks for tagging stuff! It really bugs me how people are super casual about deep-cut spoilers! Sorry for com8ng at you about nothing!

Oh, thank you, that's nice of you! I too wish for a more consistent spoiler etiquette in this fandom lmao, though I look at it a little differently? I think there's a big difference between posting untagged spoilers on your own blog, vs adding a spoiler to someone else's post.

Like, I kinda understand this fandom having a more spoiler-lax culture, not just because Fallen London is a 15-year-old game, but also because its worldbuilding is all so well-integrated that it becomes quite difficult to just talk about the world or your character if you're being really mindful of spoilers! It's one of my favourite things about FL honestly -- there's some actual Reveals, but so many of the world's mysteries aren't reveals so much as just Things You Don't Know Yet. Characters or text refer to something odd, and it feels like a mystery, until you've stumbled over enough references that you connect a bunch of the dots, and then it's just a straightforward part of the world that changes how you see all those other references, in a way that makes it hard not to just, integrate this new information into your basic understanding of the setting. I think it's part of the reason why FL can have such bonkers lore and still feel so grounded. So while some things can be straightforwardly tagged, so much is just impractical.

And, like, not everybody can even DO tagging for various brain reasons, competing access needs etc etc (as an OCD-haver I VERY MUCH understand how something that seems small can end up a huge, brain-swirly difficulty that you have to just drop to have fun on tumblr dot com), so like, all that to say if someone does not want to bother tagging spoilers on their own blog, I think that's fine! I won't follow them!

Anyway, I tag ambitions, railway ("great hellbound railway"), evolution ("evolution spoilers" and "fallen london evolution"), and exceptional stories as a group ("exceptional story spoilers" and "es spoilers"). If I get around to and post about firmament (please tell me nothing about firmament!!!) I'll tag that too. I don't often tag for content warnings, these are unreliable and I think unfollowing or blocking me is your best bet if you really need content tagged with a lot of care! SOME DAY MAYBE I'LL MAKE A PINNED POST ABOUT THIS.

I do enjoy discovering Fallen London for myself as much as possible, to an extent I kind of think the general fandom doesn't even consider spoilers? Haha. There's sort of a General Assumed Fandom Knowledge and you really have to signal constantly if you want to sit outside of that, thus my frequent "no spoilers, please!" notes on posts (because you absolutely might get major spoilers in the tags if you don't mark posts that way, even posts about the middle of a storyline. That's wild to me!! but tbf everyone's been super polite when I DO include the note, so I can't complain!) But this all just means I don't look at the Fallen London tag, I don't follow Fallen London blogs outside of friends who are at roughly the same stage of the game, and in general I think that's kinda the only way to get that experience. There's a couple more things I want to experience for myself, but after that I hope to finally peek into the tag, just enjoy the fandom, and discover things through other people, too. Coming into the game so late but really enjoying the world's mysteries, this is the way that made the most sense to me, and while I've missed out on fandom stuff, for me it's been worth it. I've never played another game like Fallen London.