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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

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Tim Drake new suit

Art by Jorge Jiménez

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TimKon, anyone?✨

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Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain 🖤💛

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gagging you with our red string of fate to shut you up for one fucking second

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Superman movie has me thinking I ought to unmute this mfker but just to make it clear!!! I still don't trust him!!!

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inspired by that one voice line from deuce's ceremonial robes card

i believe in adeuce's ability to make everything a competition

kinda obsessed with the fact that there are multiple voice lines across different characters' cards testifying to the fact that yuu likes to cling to and grab and poke people — but also that these voice lines are usually people telling yuu to let go or stop bothering them

yunyun's touchy by nature and definitely still a little traumatized from orientation and being surrounded by students in ceremonial robes is not a comfortable reminder

but also it's not that deep — deuce is understandably protective of the robes that symbolize his acceptance into a prestigious school, yuu wants a little comfort in a stressful situation wherever they can get it, and ace is a petty bitch <3 they find a compromise !

you reject yuu?? oh, that's okay. yuu will find a way to cope... yuu always does...

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i just destroyed every road that leads to rome

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✮ double trouble ✮

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"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

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I just saw a DNI for "evil intentions". nobody puts up a warding talisman anymore just a fucking DNI

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the workday/weekend ratio is so off. like ethically.

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Read a fucking comic man

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to paraphrase the great gayle laurajameskinney, there is nothing worse than a comic writer that is embarrassed to be a comic writer. it shows in every aspect of their work and it's insane how common the "look how hacky and stupid and dumb and unintelligent and uncouth and useless this medium that im creating in" style of wink-at-the-camera writing is in modern-day mainstream comics. it ruins concepts and characters and arcs that could have been good and denigrates both the work that other members of the team are doing, and the fans that are supporting the creators and the stories and the medium at large

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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!