#now why we specifically decided on the word “valyrianscrolls” is a nice little story but a teeny tiny bit wanky lol

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Hi, fairly new fan of asoiaf here. What does the valyrianscrolls tag mean?

It's a tag that @joannalannister and I suggested some years ago that the ASOIAF fandom use as a whitelist to distinguish posts with book-only content. Because the #asoiaf and #a song of ice and fire tags regularly get flooded with show-related posts (which at the time -- between GOT S7 & S8 -- was incredibly annoying and getting worse every damn day), and because even #asoiafedit -- a tag meant for book-only edits, if sometimes using show footage -- also just became just another tag for show-only edits, sigh.

Mind you, with tumblr introducing their own tag blacklist system (which is very good) leading to a dramatic decrease in the use of blackist addons like Tumblr Savior (which has its own issues since its dev makes really bizarre options standard) and the deprecated New Xkit (Xkit Rewritten doesn't even have a blacklist feature), the use of whitelists has also decreased dramatically. But the ASOIAF fandom community on tumblr keeps on using the #valyrianscrolls tag for book-only content, which warms my heart every day.