#again I'm never not including that hashtag haha

[redge]

from here

Aqua with all those accessories? Melt with black nail polish, the pearl necklace and glasses?! The attitude?! Also, this really feels like how they would be posting for a cover page of a magazine on the OnK universe, them being actor celebrities and all. 👏

[apatheticlexicographer]

to be completely honest, the stranger things fandom has damn near ruined the show for me lmfao

[beggars-opera]

how do I use tags correctly? like, whats the propper tag etiquette? I'm pretty new here and don't wanna screw this up haha

Tags serve three main purposes: they help others find your posts, they help you find your posts at a later date, and they serve as a way to add metatextual commentary to a post.

So, at a base level, if you want other people to find your post, or want a way to find the post more easily yourself at a later date, you would add purely descriptive tags like on any other social media site so people looking in those tags will see your post. For example, a post of someone baking bread might have #food #baking #cottagecore etc. Fandom tags often utilize abbreviations (tagging #OFMD instead of #OurFlagMeansDeath for example) and these are best found by searching around yourself and seeing which tags are the most active.

A few pointers here:

Don't tag hate. It's fine if you dislike something, but going on a rant about how much you hate a thing and then tagging it so that everyone who loves the thing will have to look at it is considered aggressive and rude.

People will often tag for common triggers like gore and rape as a courtesy to those using extensions to erase posts containing those tags from their dash. The exact format of these tags has never been formalized, but most use the #cwtrigger, #twtrigger, or just #trigger format.

Tags on original posts mean that post will show up when you search for that tag. Tags on reblogs do not make it show up in the tag page a second time and are only useful for internal blog searching.

You can also choose to use tags that are just for you, like #mythoughts or #myart, which allows you to search your own blog more easily. If you are an artist of any sort, using a tag denoting what is an original work is highly recommended.

Some people also use a tag specifically for posts that are in their queue, to let people know that the post is automatic and that they are not necessarily online at that particular moment. Getting creative with puns gets you brownie points. #scoobydoobyqueue

Tags specifically go into the tag section at the bottom of the post editor. Adding hashtags to the body of a post does absolutely nothing. You can, however, @ another user in the body of the post.

Tags are also often used for commentary purposes. They are sort of like whispering under your breath after you've publicly stated whatever is in your post. This can include musings, jokes, and other information that didn't quite seem important enough to put in the main body of the post. Every post of a beautiful woman does not need five hundred people writing "as I lesbian I am looking respectfully *googly eyes emoji*" in the post but you can 100% put that in the tags.

Pointers with this:

Eventually everyone gets the hang of what thoughts are important enough to put in the body of a post or reblog and what should be relegated to the tags. You can ask yourself "is this adding something useful to the conversation, or is it just me rambling or keysmashing?"

If your tags are witty enough, other users may deem them worthy of being included in the main post, screenshot them, and put the screenshot in their reblog. We consider this a peer review process of sorts and it is a badge of honor.

Again, being kind is a common courtesy. When you add tag commentary, the original poster and person you reblogged from are notified, and everyone can see it. So if you write in the tags that the post is stupid and that the OP is a cunt, congrats, you've just made the OP cry and you should probably not be on the internet.

Tags are comma delineated so if you are typing a thought in the tag long enough to need a comma, use a semicolon instead, otherwise the tag will be split in two. Likewise, quotation marks will not show up in a tag.

I hope this helps!

[anarmorofwords]

Hi! I originally found you through TLH but lately I realized that you're also in the red, white, and royal blue fandom. Do you have any good firstprince fic recs? I always need more Alex and Henry content haha

hello!

oh, you came to the right address, darling. i'm slightly obsessed with firstprince fanfiction lately; as in, I probably read at least 1/3 of ao3's supply.

(i'm going to list E rated separately, but I'm including Mature in the general list, since you've read the book itself, so I imagine that's not an issue)

my absolute favest (that is not a word, I'm aware):

hashtag soulmates

a love letter to love

amigos y migas

on a wednesday in a café, I watched it begin again

she knew me (he sees me) (doesn't focus on their relationship so much, but it's chef's kiss)

never truly leave

it's love, my dear

safe with me (again not centered around firstprince per se, but absolutely wonderful regardless)

a goddamn blaze in the dark (and you started it) (same thing as above)

couldn't escape if I wanted to

other great ones:

you're leaving (now I'm left amongst the living) (I don't know what it says about me that I reread it a few times lol; plz read the tags tho)

once in a century

miscommunications lead to fall out

between the shadow and the soul

play me a song

more faves, but E rated ( if you don't mind/enjoy that, these are truly great fics and so worth it overall):

hit (my love) out of the park

forever yrs, for evermore

professional rivalry

if at first you don't succeed

sporting chance

general incivility

such a burden this flame on my chest

that's all that comes to mind for now, though I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting something. anyway, enjoy, and just so you know, you can always scream about rwrb to/@ me!