#blah blah blah please stop adding a&b tags to your a/b ship fic blah blah blah shakes fist at cloud XD

[squireofgeekdom]

related to that last post it does fascinate me how much fic tagging culture has changed over time, ranging from no or minimal tags, to more expansive tagging, chatty tagging like tumblr, and now getting something that feels like a response to tagging on like, instagram or tiktok, 'tagging for visibility', being (further) misapplied to an archive setting. like, as someone who first read on specific fandom archives and forums that really didn't do tagging iirc, and first posted on ffnet with verrrrry minimal tagging (sure can't tag background ships on there!), even my own tagging on ao3 has evolved a great deal in the ~decade ive been on there. and then of course all of these fic tagging cultures exist simultaneously in different fandoms and from different circles of people based on preferences and norms that may have been established on social media or in print zines.