#TAG YOUR FICS

[undead-dumbass]

Here’s the thing with tagging on Ao3

IF YOU TAG DEAD DOVE:DO NOT EAT YOU HAVE TO TAG WHAT MAKES IT SO BAD

I am fine with cannibalism and a little bit of gore but other things I don’t want to read! Please tag properly

Sincerely every ao3 reader

[1seaweedbrain1]

imma be honest im squinting real hard @ fic writers who tag "dubcon" instead of rape/non con when the dude is not able to give consent. like at least put the warning, i see dubcon im thinking maybe theyre real drunk or its a lil funky or something not he technically said yes but only bc other dude said hed kill his brothers. the point of the tag is to tell me wtf im going into. if he said yes under duress that should have a rape warning "but people filter out that warning" YEAH THATS WHY THERE ARE TAGS. SO YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE. womp womp someone doesnt wanna read about rape, thats fine dont make them. ik a lot of yall writing that are adults, and if you arent you are writing about an 18+ topic so act like it and fucking tag your shit.

[glitteryolks]

i use this acct to lurk but please tag your fics correctly.. i’m not trying to read sub!character and dom!reader at any point, yet y’all tag the fic with sub!character AND dom!character and it won’t even be a switch or like.. anything… i’m trying to see dom!reid i ain’t trying to read about a submissive man lmao

this may come off rude but i’m really tired of y’all complaining about fics not being tagged right yet y’all are the ones doing it the most… fix it.

[ill-corpses]

Cw:NSFW(?)

I desperately need some of you guys to just tag your fics as “switch reader” or “switch character”

There’s no reason for me to search dom/top reader only to have sub reader in the same tag UNLESS it’s a bunch of one shots

Tagging you fics as switch won’t kill you

Your just clogging up the top/dom tags please

I want to fuck my fav not the other way around 😭

It sucks when I search dom reader and it either switches part way through or it’s just sub reader

Like you can still include dom and sub tones, undertones etc but don’t tag it as dom reader or sub reader if your going to have them switch at some point

[maela-the-menace]

Dear smut writers:

PLEASE TAG YOUR SMUT FICS AS SMUT ON AO3.

I consistently find smuts when I’m browsing tags even after sorting out the smut tag. This is super annoying, as I am not looking for smut. Not only does this make non smut-readers come across something they specifically didn’t want to see in their feed, this makes it harder for the actual smut-readers, your target audience, to find your content.

TAG YOUR SMUTS, PEOPLE.

[mixsethaddams]

I have a theory about tagging, triggers warnings, etc.

Mostly from what I’ve seen it’s people 30+ who are more likely to be able to ‘cope’ with an untagged element or trigger warning. Younger people will need a full roster before deciding whether to read or not. They also tend to be slightly better at tagging their own stuff without much thought. I had to relearn a lot of tagging/tw habits because I wasn’t great at it.

For those of us old enough, remember when someone would send you a link in the early days of the internet and it was 50/50 if it was a happy bunny or someone getting their head chopped off? Who else saw all those snuff clips on rotton(dot)com before you turned 14? This used to be so normal and it was always played off like ha ha funny prank after getting fully traumatised by what you saw. Its almost unheard of now on the wider internet. Same with stories, fics, movies. Tagging and trigger warning lists just weren’t the done thing.

People around my age (30s) would have had to learn to spot something as it came up in real time. They’d have to recognise hints and signs and curate their reading/watching experience as it happened instead of beforehand. We got, unfortunately, used to it. Younger people have the luxury of being able to seek out or ask for those warnings in advance.

I guess in some ways its a luxury to have had to train yourself to recognise or disconnect from a surprise trigger but if it one things elder millennials are doing right, it’s depression.

[easily-distracted-by-fandom]

Small rant

could people please PLEASE tag for unsympathetic deceit/janus? I get it, you see him as naturally unsympathetic or whatever and unsympathetic is a long word and you don’t want to type it out. But I am TIRED of scrolling through sanders side fics when every 1/10 is a fic where deceit is some villain that’s emotionally and physically abused Virgil. I am TIRED of reading through tags so carefully because odds are if there’s manipulation and deceit sanders in the tags the two are tied. Please, please tag your fics when you have an unsympathetic character, I love Janus and it hurts me to see him being talked bad about so that’s why I filter the tag! So, from a very tired Janus fan, please tag your fics. I’m begging you

-Tal

(okay that wasn’t a small rant but 🤷‍♀️)

[bridoesotherjunk]

i mean this from the bottom of my heart

PUT YOUR GIANT ASS FANFICS UNDER A READ MORE OR TAG THEM AS A LONG POST

i was scrolling for SO LONG trying to get through a fic on my phone

torture

[fanfiction-pet-peeves]

fanfiction pet peeve: surprise breeding kink

[true-to-the-rp]

.... what the fuck are people doing CENSORING TAGS!

Only Pychopaths censor words. If You, as person dont like the word Rape, use SA instead. Cause the same people who dont like it will probably have SA or Sexual Assult Blocked/Hided (Im that person). BUT... even though I say thing, I still recommend still adding the word to your Tagging, incase people just have Rape hiden. Its always best to just assume that.

(Wont lie writing Rape made me feel gross, I see why people dont like writing the words.)

Also dont Censor sexual act or not tag the sexual acts, the fuck? Pet play isnt a bad word, its just a kink, you silly bean. And please tell us if there's a foot kink in your fic, I got jump scared by foot licking once I will not have that happen again! Please!

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

[ao3-anonymous]

What in the fanfic hell is this?? 😂😂

[everwalldigan]

I love the idea of all the robins kinda being clones of each other with just a few differences and a concussed Bruce not being able to tell who he’s squinting at so he just says generic statements and avoids saying any names

Bruce (sitting at the breakfast table): so… how’s the weather… dick?

Jason (grinning): you do know I’m gonna hold this against you for like, the next 2 months right

Bruce: (groans into his hands)

Bruce (walking into the living room): hey have you read through the files I gave you yesterday?

Dick: (confused cause he took a day off to surprise Bruce) ?

Bruce: so?

Dick: er… no?

Bruce: Dick?? What are you doing here?

Bruce (walks into the kitchen with a fresh concussion): Jason? I thought you were on a mission with the outlaws?

Tim: (frozen through mid fridge raid, having assumed they were past Bruce calling him Jason since yk. He’s a shit brickhouse now and Tim is, well, obviously not): uh?

Bruce: *turns around and leaves*

Bruce: Oh hey Cass, when did you arrive from Babs’?

Damian: (slowly turns around in the black hoodie he’s wearing) we’re not even the same gender

Bruce: (under his breath) yeah but the same height

[the-resident-demon]

Hey can yall tag your fucking fics correctly. Its not fucking hard. You dont have to bloat the tags “fOr ThE aLgOrItHm” it aint fuckin instagram.

[icetobes]

everyday someone on ao3 doesn’t use / or & correctly when tagging relationships and i die a little more inside

LIKE PLEASSEE / IS NOT PLATONIC I BEG STOP USING IT FOR PLATONIC FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS 😭😭😭😭

[oblique-lane]

References for Anomaly Diversion!!!

Official!! finally!!

I wanted to make their design stand out, so I created them from scratch; they're not loadouts you can find in-game. Plus a little bit of character description because I'm dying to talk about them and their roles in the story (*wearing a shirt that says "please talk to me about my fic"*).

Now I can finally draw them often!!

Somewhat goofy clothing sheets under the cut↓↓↓

I tried to design them the way their silhouettes and colors stay recognisable, as if they were meant to be used in-game later, to not to break the gameplay rules. I also wanted them to look as tf2-like as possible, I studied the hell out of the 3d models and on the last three I guess it started to turn out decent. Drawing Spy is still pain though.

Or maybe it's just that I'm not attracted to the majority of the mercs visually?? That's why they don't look satisfying?? Lmao. Need to adjust them to my tastes later.

I'm not sure I can exactly explain my design choices with these... How exactly they correlate to their characters. There is something, but I went for it fully intuitively.

//

For BLU scout I went for the softer, rounder oversized clothing to accent his insecurity and the need to shield himself for comfort. It still needed to shape his torso (game rules) but his hood and sleeves do the deed. There is also a strict rule in how to draw his freckles: they look more like moles and there's 7 or 8 of them. You won't believe me if I say this is lore relevant.

For RED Scout, I went with the more aggressive military style. I think I literally took this jacket design from a real military one. There should be an accent on his heavy relations with the army. His clothes are tight because he still likes himself.

RED Sniper is giving hunter vibes, forest type. BLU Sniper looks more like a fisher or a winter hunter. Not sure what deeper meaning I could assign to this except that BLU Sniper was heavily referenced on Ogata Hyakunosuke.

BLU Spy should radiate tiredness. His look is quite unkept for his standards but at this point it doesn't matter anymore. The turtleneck and the boots are special requests from @/gentlesurgeryenjoyer (xoxo)

BLU Medic just looks so freaking cool in a black shirt. It was a vision. I'm not sure if black and white accents mean anything in terms of which side those characters are on. I also wanted to separate him from another famous horror witnessing Medic.

And Miss Pauling was the most satisfying to draw, it was a gift to draw her last... I gave her pants because it's getting cold outside at the time when the story takes place. I also find it very impractical to go killing job in a pencil skirt, I'm sorry. She probably also wears snickers underneath.

And also thanks to @nightly-headache for helping out and assistance!