#should tag these properly so it's easy to filter

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

(🖋 so i can keep an eye out)

AITA for reporting fanfic on tumblr for sexual content when its untagged/not under a readmore?

I'm mostly asking this because I'm curious, and full disclaimer I am not anti- or pro-ship, I don't subscribe to shipping discourse at all, as long as it's tagged and warned correctly, go nuts show nuts.

I have a pet peeve about fanfic authors posting their 'x reader' fanfictions in main tags (I follow quite a few main tags). If the fanfic is properly tagged, it has warnings on the introduction regarding the content, and the main body of the fic is under a readmore, I don't touch it. It's easy to scroll by, it doesn't hurt anyone, I don't care. Obviously, there isn't a universal 'x reader' tag, or they would all be blocked by my tumblr filters automatically.

But when a write posts their fic with graphic sexual content, doesn't add the community warnings FOR sexual/mature content, and doesn't put it under a readmore, filling main tags with graphic sexual descriptions, I report that post for sexual content. I used to try sending anonymous asks to the writers, asking politely for them to use readmores or to at least use the community warning tags, but more often than not I've either been ignored or they replied rudely like "I don't think I should have to do that." More often than not, these writers have 'Minors DNI' in their bios too, but they're not actually tagging their fics so that minors (or anyone else who doesn't want to see that) don't see them when they go into main fandom tags. I think that when posting anything, it's important to tag it properly so that the people who don't want to see it aren't subjected to it. I've also blocked a load of these accounts because their fics were flooding my followed tags dashboard, but at some point I don't think that I should have to. I think that they should be marking their works properly.

So, to tumblr as a whole, am I the asshole for reporting explicit, untagged fanfiction for sexual content?

What are these acronyms?

[matrixsss]

So I have some thoughts about the Elaingate thing and I am letting these thoughts loose. You are free to disagree with my opinions. 

You see instead of banning only certain characters, you could just properly tag submissions and reblogs. It is on the individual to curate their own safe space. When I came to the Acotar tumblr world, I realised that I do not vibe with Eriel or Eriels at all, you know what I did? I filtered the tags and blocked certain blogs that I did not enjoy seeing on my timeline. I created what I wanted to see on my dashboard. To protect myself from seeing things I do not enjoy. 

If you as an admin of an event cannot be bothered to properly tag reblogs, then perhaps you should not be running an event that is supposed to be enjoyed by everyone who loves said character. And from what I have seen from last years event is that you did not tag things properly. It is seriously super duper flooper easy to tag things, heck you can reuse tags that the other person used, because you just have to click on said tags. Mindblowing right? 

It is not even about censorship at this point, it is about how one group of abused/survivors of abuse is above another group. I know my triggers and other people know their triggers as well, I am sorry to say but it is on you to protect yourself and your own peace. If you do not wish to see something, filter the tags you do not wish to see. 

And if you cannot be unbiased and your triggers are too much for you, then again perhaps running an event where creators should be appreciated and uplifted is just not a job for you. 

To be honest if the rule just stated that no abusive things would be accepted or whatever, everyone would be fine and Elaingate would not have happened. And lets all be honest I highly doubt any Tamlains would even post anything for this event, even if they did who cares? because if you have shit tagged as it is supposed to be then you can idk simply ignore it and look at what brings you joy. 

As an event admin, it is on you to tag things and be unbiased to all. But it is clear to me and the majority that you just are not unbiased. 

Again you are free to disagree with my points, but keep it respectful. 

[steddieunderdogfics]

This is a space to celebrate fanfics that may have been lost to how quickly this ship grew!

This may change as the blog grows and the fandom continues to create! This post will stay pinned and be updated when these changes occur. Right now, these numbers come from the first three pages of the Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson tag on Ao3.

Nominate an author for WRITER'S SPOTLIGHT here!

Vote on our next THEME WEEEK here!

Suggest a CHALLENGE for Challenge Mondays here!

Submit a fic through our ASK and/or our SUBMISSIONS!

You can see our previously recommended fics here!

Below the cut, there are some frequently asked questions!

Can I submit my own works?

Absolutely! The more the merrier!

What counts as a popular fic?

Popularity is hard to determine with how many pockets of fandom there are. This is why we're using the metrics to gauge the cut off since people are discovering fics for the first time everyday! What may be the quintessential, most popular fic to you could be entirely new to a new fan or someone in another bubble of the Steddie fandom!

Are there any fics you won't take as recs?

No! All fics should be celebrated and it's easy to miss so many amazing creators and stories. Please refrain from anything that is on the first few pages of the ship tag when filtered by hits, kudos, comments, and/or bookmarks, since those are technically the most popular by numbers. As far as content, as long as the fic is properly tagged, it's okay to recommend!

How should we submit our recs?

There are two ways to submit: through the ask box or the submission tab. Asks: If you chose the ask box, just send the title and author (and if you're able the link, but sometimes tumblr won't let you) and I'll add the template to your response with the rating, tags, and summary! Submissions: In the guidelines, there's a template to copy and paste into your submission. Fill it out, add the links, and then choose the tags that best fit the fic you're recommending!

Can I submit multiple stories in one ask?

If you're rec'ing more than two, please do them separately! In order to give each fic the recognition it deserves, it's best if they're getting a post to itself so they stand out. Two is fine for a post, but anything more than that, please split it up!

Can I submit multiple stories in general?

Please do!!

Where can I see the fics that have been submitted?

You can check our main tumblr for fics organized by title and by author!

[olderthannetfic]

had someone leave a nasty review because i forgot to tag "trans male character" (which i usually do; i only write sex scenes with trans men because i want more content). however, i did tag with "cunnilingus", and i stand by my reasoning that it more than warns people what bits we're gonna be working with. they specifically whined that it turned them off soooo badly—but i have absolutely no sympathy. genuinely, am i thinking of this wrong? i am obviously going to fix the tags (for MY joy in it being easy to find this character written as a trans man, not their joy in slapping their hands over their ears screaming "lalala" because trans men exist and fuck nasty), but. i don't know. i wanted a genuine second opinion.

the review is as follows: "I wish you would’ve put in the tags somewhere about afab language or female genitalia. I did not enjoy making it all the way through just to be completely turned off and disgusted"

i, angry, replied, "Terribly sorry you weren't able to read the word cunnilingus in the tags, but I didn't write this for you."

they replied, "It’s called “I have the shit I don’t like filtered out by tags” and who would’ve thought I would have to filter out something as hyperspecific as cunnilingus in order to not see it. Just tag it afab and move on."

i... feel that's an unfair and unreasonable response. i'm not tagging to tw. i'm tagging for archival purposes, so people who want this content can find it.

--

Seems like they should have read the tags properly, not just relied on their usual filters.

[fenrislorsrai]

Firefish - a twitter alternative

TLDR: Looks like twitter, functions better. Lets you interact across multiple platforms. Allows NSFW. Has built in anti AI scraping.

If you ever used Twitter, it's going to look similar in structure, so the learning curve is low. There's more features that that, but they're not so intrusive you HAVE to learn them right away but also aren't hard to find. It's a nice balance.

The big difference is post length- it allows up to 8000 characters, so like Mini-Tumblr.

one of the features I like that familiar's but better is if you hover cursor over name on desktop is it pops up the profile for the person and a follow button. So you can immediately hover over name and get context about the person posting when it's not someone you already follow. Is this health info being posted by a professional or by someone that thinks you should stick rocks in your vagina?

That feature also means its incredibly easy to follow people regardless of the instance. On Mastodon it was extremely annoying to follow people. If that the thing that put you off Mastodon, Firefish fixed that and made it better than Twitter.

Firefish runs off ActivityPub, so it lets you follow and interact with anyone using the plugins for that. So includes Mastodon, WordPress, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Misskey, and Tumblr is allegedly developing an integration to run it.

Okay, NSFW content! We're about to get slightly in the weeds here. whether NSFW content is allowed is generally by server. When you go to join Firefish, it'll ask you what server you want to use and it'll tell you about rules. If you want NSFW, pick one that allows!

That's it. If you picked one that did not, it generally won't allow you to follow things that do or boost stuff from a location that did.

NOW, A GREAT FEATURE! Spoilering stuff is super easy on Firefish. Just click the button! Say you see something you wanna boost but its *not* spoilered. You can boost AND spoil the image/text of the quoted item! MAGIC.

now, on to antennas.

The Antenna feature on there lets you track tags or users in a separate panel so you can see it in one spot. You can also add NEGATIVE tags to the antenna. So say you want to see news about your city. So you set the main tag as the City. But you don't want sports news. So you can put in negative tags of sports, specific sport names, and individual teams in the city. And then you get news about the location, but no sports

For fandom purposes, you can use it to filter out things you just don't vibe with. hate that one ship? BEGONE.

PROFILES: you can stick hashtags in your profile and it'll turn up in searches easily. also it will ask you "are you a cat?" If you say yes, it gives your profile pic cat ears.

Overall when I'm posting links to Firefish posts (or posts via something from ActivityPub hosted sites that I interacted with via Firefish), so far it renders the preview link well on most platforms. I'm not sure how it works for embedding a whole message into a static page (like you could do with Twitter for news articles).

AN IMPORTANT NERDY NOTE: okay, you wanna sign up for Firefish now. Select from the servers offered some have different rules restrictions and some have Non-english default languages. Pick the one you like. If you pick Firefish.social itself that one IS the largest but also it gets day one code updates... so sometimes it gets funky or won't load properly for a few hours. If that will drive you bonkers, pick *any* other server. The server size is almost irrelevant because Firefish plays so well with other services!

also, if you don't see one today, check again in a few days! admins rotate through open enrollments to keep the growth rate managable. also, if you're *that* kind of nerd, you can host your own server. Even with only YOU on it. and it still interacts normally with the rest of the ActivityPub servers!

[lifetrimmed]

📌└(＾∇＾)ﾉ♪ 📌

✧ Call me jajang (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

✧ I'm a multishipper and I adore rarepairs~

✧ Art tag: #drrrawing

✧ Pixiv

✧ Asks, art/fic trades, art requests OPEN! More info here

✧ Sometimes draws 18+ stuff, if you publicly show that you're a minor then pls refrain from following and interacting with my nsfw posts....

✧ I'm into dead dove, so you can expect me posting shit like gore, incest, age gap, etc every once in a while

✧ Fave charas: Jack♡, Sebek♡, Idia, Floyd, Jade, Crewel

✧ Fave ships:

Idia × Sebek 💀⚡ (OTP!!)

Crewel × Jack 🐶🐺

Tweelcest 🦈🐬🦈

✧ Other interests (in order): nu carnival, BL visual novels, zzzero, gintama, hetalia, genshin, etc etc

✧ I use eastern top×bottom naming rule, and I don't make my fave ships switch (except tweels)

✧ Here's how I see each character's top/bottom/switch preference:

✧ I rarely tag the characters, but at the very least I will always tag the ships (tumblr tagging is ass but filtering my shippy stuff with the japanese tags should be easy lol) Nah I changed my mind lol, now all my drawings I post are sufficiently tagged. Got a death threat in my inbox for properly tagging an oruide art but oh well ╮⁠(⁠＾⁠▽⁠＾⁠)⁠╭

[pragmatic-optimist]

An Appeal re: Anon Asks

For the last week (although honestly, the last six months), I've been having conversations on and off about the responsibility of answering asks on your blog and the impact it has on fandom as a community. 

At some point during Season 2 of Lone Star, the Anon asks, in particular, got truly out of control, and it's only gotten worse over time. Your blogs are your blogs, and I respect that. At the same time, as a fandom community, we share this space. Whether or not we all know one another, we're all coexisting in the tags and on this site. It takes a lot of emotional labor and time to filter and block on Tumblr, especially when folks don't tag consistently or correctly. Like many in this fandom, I also want to have fun while I'm here, but it's hard to do that when there seems to be little to no discernment in answering asks or properly tagging them.  

When it comes to unnecessary negative comments on fanfic, we often say, "it's not hard to close out of something if you don't like it." The spirit of that applies here, too. It's easy not to answer an ask, especially an Anon ask.

If someone isn't putting their name on something they're asking you to post to your blog, I would argue it requires an additional second and third look and careful consideration of how you answer it. (Certain asks are answered flippantly and then tagged for all to see, but that is an entirely separate post I won't be writing). 

Everything you share gets eyes; how many depends on how loud of a voice you're considered in the fandom. And it's been my experience that the louder the voice, the more substantial the likelihood you'll find problematic Anon asks in your inbox. Answering these asks on your blog gives them a platform, and tagging them gives them an audience outside of your followers. If you're a "big blog," it increases the odds that some of us will also be subjected to these problematic asks through reblogs. All of this broadly impacts fandom conversation because now it's deemed acceptable to send XYZ type of ask, use XYZ word(s), bring up XYZ topic, or talk about XYZ actor(s) or character(s) in any type of way.

The whole "this is Tumblr, it's not that serious" argument is privileged because some of this stuff is serious for someone like me (and others in this space). I can't just pretend someone isn't implicitly making it seem okay to say certain things, especially if their blog is looked at as a popular fandom source.

This ask is just one example of what I'm talking about:

It's the use of a racialized fetish term, and honestly, it's super cringe. Seeing this in the show tag is deeply uncomfortable as a Latinx person. What was the point of answering this ask and then tagging it? It serves no purpose and hangs out in the show tag like we all just throw it around (we don’t). It's been brought to attention, and still, it lingers. 

A fandom community should be safe and fun for all, but we don't live in a perfect world, so it takes work. Part of being in a community and doing the work is kindly holding people accountable to make it that way and being willing to have constructive conversations when concerns are raised. It's not accountability if you only show "remorse" when your friends bring something to your attention, and then nothing changes.

Accountability also ceases to exist when the fandom community chooses deep avoidance, handwaving things away whenever someone tries to share a concern. I have no idea why this keeps happening here, but I do know that every time it happens, it is profoundly isolating and makes it clear that fandom is only meant to be fun for some. The rest of us have to either put up with it or leave. 

If that's the message the Lone Star fandom intends to send, it's being received loud and clear. 

****

(Edit: the post is finally down, but I’ve shared a screenshot because it took three days and more than one person to address it publicly and this is exactly what I’m talking about.)

[nefastum]

How have you dealt with the hate you surely get for liking Griffith and Griffith x casca?

Hello there, love ♡ This one gets a little heavy, okay?

⚠️CW// self harm mention CW// suicidebating mention ⚠️

Hate is a tricky thing, isn't it? It depends on the kind of complaints I get, honestly. I understand why the pairing would unsettle some and why Griffith himself might make people uncomfortable, so when comments are strictly on the basis of "this upset me" I am pretty accepting of it as their opinion. It's completely valid. I like people to feel safe, so I want them to be able to avoid my content if it makes them uncomfortable. That's why I'll tag and content warn for anything I feel might be upsetting. Of course, there are those who ignore/don't use filters, in which case I either direct them on how to do it or ignore the comment if it is just "🤢" or something.

As for outright rude comments, like "Gross, should have drawn xyz character instead" or "Fuck you" or something ^ ^; I usually just block them or ignore it. Sometimes, I will admit, I have poked back at them. Dudebros tend to have like one of two insults for me, so it's pretty easy to just respond with a stupid gif. It's not the most mature, I know, but I have my limits. (Also, if I get dumb comments, I make more properly tagged art.)

Speaking of limits, if it is something particularly distressing to me, like threats or telling me to hurt myself, I will either not publish the ask and just delete it, or if it is on twt reply I will hide the reply and block them. I don't take threats to real ppl over fictional characters lightly, and I will not abide by making said threats- even if it is a joke. I will block, delete and remove whatever I must to curate my online space.

In short, if someone is simply uncomfortable, I try to help them. If they are an asshole I block/ignore them. And if they threaten/suicidebait me, I delete/block/remove them from my tl as best I can. I also take breaks from it, because it can really mess with me if I let it.

Thank you for the ask, Anon! I hope you are doing well and keeping yourself safe out there on the internets~ Take care, love ♡

[codytailor]

“So I made a tumblr.....now what?”

Not to worry, tumblr has some handy stuff here once you get used to it all. Let’s start by figuring out our blog situation. 

“Yeah I like to reblog stuff but I also worry about having the type of posts I create be lost in the toilet seat of my brain with all the reblogs and random text post I make.”

Well the good news Timmy is there are a few features people use to keep their own uploads nice and organized from their 4AM reblog session where they question when they lost control of their life.

What I myself started to do and what many other users also utilize is the fact that you can make separate blogs. If you go to your top right on your account settings you can look down on where it says Tumblrs and “new”

From there you can just name your blog and give it a URL and you are done!

A lot of artist use this to make an art blog and literally just post their artworks there. I myself still make my art posts on my “main” blog but I reblog all my art posts onto my art blog. You can do this however you see fit but keep in mind that your secondary blog you just made is unable to follow other users. That all has to be done on your main blog so it’s a good idea to use your main blog for keeping in contact with people. (slightly off topic but you can also hide who you follow if you want too.)

“That’s great and all but how do I keep things organized and easy to find on my main blog?”

Here’s one of the things I like about tumblr......the magic.....of tagging~

You should be tagging all your posts you make on tumblr. Here are a few uses of the tag feature so you can see why they are so useful.

So about all those art posts I made, let’s go back and edit the post. (Yes you can edit your posts after making them. It’s beautiful)

go to the bottom right of your post and click on the little pencil buddy. From there you can edit your post including the tags

I made a unique tag for all my art posts and use this on any art I made myself. just by clicking on it I can search this tag on the main dash or even just on my blog space making it easy for me to bring up all my art posts any time I want.

besides for your creative uploads you should tag your reblogs too, use tags such as a name of fandom or series, a characters name, a hobby, art or photography, text post, and yeah you get it. The point is tagging is very important here.

Now for posts you don’t want to see you can filter tags in your account settings

scroll down to content you see and you can enter tags you don’t want to see. For me I started tagging undertale au tags because a lot of them also use the tag “UTAU” and for us vocalsynth folks that is very much not the same thing. Sorry Undertale au fans. I respect you but I want to see Kasane Teto not Sans undertale *megalovania starts playing*

Speaking of your dash you can edit how your dash shows you posts on your timeline. I hear most users tend to turn most of these off but the only one I find didn’t work that well was “Best stuff first.” this isn’t really an algorithm site but hey these are here to use as you please. go into your settings and hit dashboard and scroll down to find this 

(also you are able to follow certain tags too!)

“this is great but how do I make it easy for other users to find all my different types of posts on my blog?”

Well Jimbo the last feature I want to talk about is the “Pinned post” feature. You are able to make a text post with stuff like links to other content or info about yourself! It’s pretty easy and the pinned post even appears on the mobile version too. Simple make your text post and then just click on the three little dot guys to the top right. You can see the “pin” option there

It should be noted though that if your link to all your art posts is a search tag of all your art tags it will not open properly on mobile. This is why I made my art blog and just reblog my art posts there. I can just use that art blog link in my pinned post so all my art work can be found easily.

Just real fast before I close I do want to say that on desktop you can edit your blog page with custom themes and make them look real nice or easier to navigate your posts but i’m a monkey brain that knows very little about that so I only want to mention it.

Hope this post is useful to some people!

[edensrose]

seeing the recent hate targeted towards blogs who do dark content—whether it be lotr/silm related or any fandom for the matter—is crazy 😭 bc for the majority of the blogs i’ve stumbled upon/follow, if not all, the authors are usually survivors of trauma related to their works. its either they’ve experienced it or have dealt with it in some way that they use the internet or some expression of art (like writing for the matter) as a way to escape and cope from it. to them, this is a form of expression to vent their frustrations and feelings, and some others see it as a way to take hold over their own trauma—and i know that it is hard for others to digest and see, but this is why people cope in different ways. if you don’t like dark content, that’s fine, you’re definitely entitled to what makes you comfortable because spaces on the internet like tumblr has tools to help you cater to your own space. but if you’re gonna go out of your way and attack authors who do dark content, it’s not any better. i think it’s hypocritical—how come you get to have a safe space but diminish how others cope? i know it’s a controversial conversation, whether it makes you a bad person for liking stuff like this and going as far as making art of it, but it’s definitely up to the person who makes it. i can’t really state for sure if it makes you bad or not, but i doubt anyone can, because not everything completely adheres to a black and white perspective. there isn’t a limit to what you can write about and the type of fanfics others enjoy. i’m sure that someone who enjoys horror movies like friday the 13th isnt going around to support real life serial killers.

look, there’s a reason why authors heavily tag their works when writing darkfics. there’s disclaimers upon disclaimers upon disclaimers. i remember stumbling upon a fic on ao3 that was so heavily tagged it felt like centuries passed by trying to scroll through. there’s a reason why a lot of content like this is tagged 18+, for mature audiences, because if you’re old enough, you know how to handle content like this. and if you really want to get into it, critical thinking is definitely involved when you’re consuming stuff like this, that’s why it’s only and made by mature audiences.

one of the best things about authors who properly tag their works, is that they tag their works properly. it’s not like they’re creating a fanfic where their main summary and premise is a nice, simple, vanilla romance with no trigger warnings whatsoever, so you read it thinking it’s something you can digest. only to figure out, there’s definitely scenes later on the books that diminishes that narrative of a non-dark content story. i think that’s shitty, it’s feels like it’s glorifying some messed up abuse and branding it as “romance.” but that’s the main difference here, you don’t see none of that bs when it comes to blogs that create dark content. like i said, a lot of these blogs are created by people who understand—that’s why tagging fanfics/dark fics are so vitally important and why these authors take it seriously. if you’ve been around the fanfic community, you know that tagging is very serious around here because it helps people filter out certain things that they don’t want to see, and that makes it easier for other people to create their own safe spaces.

i know it’s easy to just chalk it up to, “if you don’t like, don’t read”/“just block the tags,” and it may feel like people are just dismissing it. but it really is that easy to say that. no one is dismissing how you feel about dark content and no one should, for the matter, ever talk crap about your own feelings and experiences. but as i’ve said and many of these authors say, you get to create your own boundaries on the internet. if you don’t like, just block. there’s no need to go around and harass others, seriously. it doesn’t make you any better.

also for the authors and blogs who’s been getting hate and attacked on this, i’d probably suggest turning off your anons for awhile. there’s a reason why people are so quick to hate on the internet because they are granted anonymity, so it can be used as an advantage.

also sorry for the ramble 😭 i felt bad seeing blogs i follow get harassed over this and i wanted to offer some retrospect! everyone is entitled to their own feelings, but be understanding of others. in no way am i defending that anon that’s been going around and spreading hate and disgusting death threats. i hope you all have a great week, be happy and be nice to others—always.

I got to this so late, I'm sorry. But yes, everything you said is absolutely valid. Most writers I know tag their work accordingly. I also feel like people don't realise that by policing something like dark content they are criticising an outlet for survivors. I was surprised by how many are writers and readers, as I have discovered due to this situation. I can only hope that their safe space is also not intruded on. I honestly just want to go back to the normal stuff on my blog, but I have not only been beyond frustrated with this situation, but still receiving quite bad messages that I have chosen to block. I really wish that fandom and people in general pull themselves together

[hearts401]

EXACTLY LMAO LIKE DO THEY NEED SOMETHING…… look i get taking fictional characters too seriously, i do. but i have never cared enough to block evade or. literally anything lmao. if im getting to the point where i want to do something excessive its time to like go pet a cat or something. or listen to music. anything to walk away from the situation lmao.

AND YEAH LITERALLY THE BLOCK AND WALK AWAY WEBSITE….. ppl are allowed to think “this persons takes suck ass” and block them as a result. you can block someone for any reason including no reason!! thats the point!! you dont have to provide proof of an issue to block someone you just block them!! its so easy everyone should feel free to use the block button if they dislike something. or filter tags. or all the other things there specifically so you can configure your dash to your tastes and avoid things you dont like.

its fine if they dont want to see rhinedottir hate but just fucking block thats the whole point lmao

-cross

i literally get so worked up about dorian like i GET IT but i leave ppl alone abt it!! i block them so they wont see!!! its not that deep ughughug if youre not gonna read my post properly dont get mad at me for blocking...

i legit block people for having hcs abt dorian i disagree with like. i block everyone! it doesnt mean im taking it too srsly it means this isnt smth i wanna see!! it takes two seconds to block people ofc im gonna do that over a stupid debate,,, like my issue was i dont fw rhine apologists... "blocking rhine enjoyers left and right" its almost like i hate her... like yeah i hate seeing dorian hate but i dont bitch at them abt it omgggg

[koolaidmansb1tch]

Fun Fact!

(TLDR; Using You/Your doesn’t make your X OC an X Reader, don’t tag it as such)

Using Second Person POV (You/Your) does not automatically make something X Reader! So if you market something as X Reader when the character is very clearly an OC, that is mistagging and it’s a shitty thing to do! IDK bout y’all but I do not, in fact, have blue or green eyes, I am not blonde or a redhead, I am short and chubby. So if you are using a character that has set features and a name, I do not give a singular fuck if you are using 2nd Person POV, that is not X Reader. The only reason an actual X Reader should have any sort of set features is if it actually relevant to the plot (ie a Species Characteristic like wings or a tail, or something to do with actual plot relevance like if the Reader Character has a very specific and special eye colour) and necessary. Yea, absolutely if you are writing for a specific race (ie Black!Reader) then you are free to set those characteristics but if it is meant to be ambiguous then don’t put a damn OC in place of the “Reader” Character and call it an X Reader. Y’all are assholes if you do that. I am genuinely sick and tired of seeing it. Worst part is, I literally have the X OC tag blocked and yet I’m still seeing this shit because y’all don’t fucking tag your stuff properly. If you’re gonna be a dick and tag it as X Reader then at least include an X OC tag so that we can fucking filter it. I have made multiple posts about this kind of thing before and I am reaching my goddamn limit. Literally just saw a fic that was very blatantly X OC and yet that tag was nowhere in sight. Fucking Homestuck(dated reference ik shut up) uses 2nd Person and yet nowhere does it claim to be a reader insert. Reader insert and immersive are 2 different things don’t even get me started.

Tag. Your. Shit. Right.

It is not that fucking hard. literally all you have to do is add a tag that is 3 characters. “X OC” that’s it. That’s all it takes. Or, better yet, put it as a warning in the actual post because not everyone checks the tags. This isn’t Ao3 where the tags are just right there alongside the warnings, put tags and warnings in the actual post and in the tags. Literally just be courteous to the people who don’t want to see that. If you don’t want to use Y/n, easy fix, either work around it (ie, “he said your name” “She called your name” “they muttered your name”) or get some kind of nickname (doesn’t have to be a pet name, could just be something people call them, ie “my name is ____ but people call me Gator” I literally know someone who nearly everyone knows as “Fish”)

It is not that hard to just be courteous and not tag your X OC as X Reader.

[vole-mon-amour]

OK, i sent the last ask in impulse but i just want to elaborate: if you're proship, you should understand a ship like this one gets a lot of negativity already. the tag is constantly filled with hate, artists and writers here and on twitter constantly have to lock down their accounts because of harassment. i get not liking it, but can you understand why it sucks to see someone claim to be proship, but then tag a post about how this ship/character should be too fucked up to have fans?

Okay, anon, I deleted that post. At the same time, I was trying to reach the targeted audience & I sure as hell can't do that through an anti tag. If you have any better ideas (aside from maybe better phrasing), then, please, do tell.

Also, I promise you, you do not want to find out what my hate towards a character or a ship looks like. It wouldn't be a confused meme with question marks. I was being polite, perhaps just not enough.

I'm all in for ship whatever you want and don't bully people for it, but don't you think people should tag it for those who don't want to see something (I do think so & try to tag it accordingly)?

Because occasionally I see way too much of Cazador x Astarion with zero ability to filter it out cause it's being posted through Astarion's and BG3 general tags to reach the larger audience (and for whaaat?). I also followed a really cool artist for another fandom of mine & the artist fell into BG3 and started posting and reblogging tons of Cazador x Astarion without tagging it as a ship at all. And I don't think that's a way to go, either.

P.S.: You have no idea (*i* don't have any idea in the first place) how many people got me blocked and how many I had to block because of the things I like and say and disagree with. So, you know, the block button is always out there. Easy as that. But if you get upset by being asked to tag your ship/things properly, then maybe that's on you?

[olderthannetfic]

Many OC writers are now only tagging [OC name] x [character name] so you can't filter it out from the fandom tags. All have been female OCs. I suspect that the non-female OCs, much like the non-fem!readers, are either rare or properly tagged to help interested readers find them (rather than untagged like the fem!OCs so the reluctant might give them a chance). I've also noticed that many of the people writing reader/OC fics are new to fandom and unfamiliar with the etiquette, so they aren't doing this maliciously. Besides, the reader stuff can be enormously popular here unlike on AO3.

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There are plenty of people for whom that kind of thing is the default form of fic. It doesn't always occur to them that they should make it easy to filter out.

[brettdoesdiscourse]

How do you feel about people shipping celebrities with their real life, underage children? (Ex. Gerard Way/Bandit Way [his fourteen year old daughter])

Okay, so. I had to take a little bit to think about how exactly I wanted to address this.

The short answer is I feel the same way about it as everything else when it comes to shipping.

If it's properly tagged and able to be avoided, what you write is your business. The tagging system and exclusions have come such a long way, even since I started using the internet. You used to be able to stumble upon all kinds of fanfiction without searching for it and with no real way to avoid it.

I remember stumbling across fics like that without trying to when I was first starting out and there wasn't a solid way (no pun intended) to avoid them.

I can't speak for other sites since I don't use them, but ao3 has a really good filtering system and most bandom people use it really well.

If there's something you don't want to see, you can exclude it from your search results and not see it.

Of course, you should never be sending rpf to real people unless they specifically ask you to and the author has given full and clear consent for it to be shared with them.

And with rpf of any kind, I discourage people from using public sites that can be easily filtered and can be stumbled upon easier. Such as Twitter.

In other rpf circles, a lot of those people being written about use Twitter. So, I always recommend people have their account set to private if they want to post it on Twitter because it's very easy to just stumble upon those kinds of things on public Twitter. And hard to filter them out to not see them.

[natethenomadallen]

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