#tag search

[holy-mother-of-whumpers]

Me: tagging stuff in the hope of finding it again in my blog later

Also me: never once have I found something in my blog using the tag search. I either get ready to scroll back to the dawn of time or I give up.

[destiel-more-like-im-dead-again]

Does anyone know if there’s a tag on ao3 for going in someone’s head? Specifically Deans? Like in 14x10 nihilism

[sprintingficcommentator]

Important piece of advise for all fic writers (and readers who are tag-searching) on AO3:

Due to natural sarcasm of fandoms (and fandom-related tags), if you want to write (or search) a fanfic in which a character is an ACTUAL good parent, PLEASE use BOTH the tags "[Character Name]'s A+ Parenting" (or similar) and "Good Parent [Character Name]" (or, if you want to be brief, just "[Character Name]'s Actual A+ Parenting").

Also, for the contrary, use BOTH the tags "[Character Name]'s A+ Parenting" (or similar) and "Bad Parent [Character Name]".

If you just tag "[Character Name]'s A+ Parenting", it can get confusing because you can filter in both options and it could make a fic search a tad longer and more tedious.

On the other hand (for searchers), remember that if you're not sure if the fic you're searching for contains both tags, DO filter only by the "[Character Name]'s A+ Parenting" tag, because while a lot of people specify in the work tags, again, many don't and you could be missing the work you are looking for. By the way, I recommend also searching the bookmark section, because people could tag a work with something the author did not and could further help your search.

Thank you!

[mashounen1945]

A few additional tips from the replies:

@maybefandomstuff:

"%23" is a tag, "%2C" is a comma, and "%20" is a space. However, it doesn't seem to work if you try to use the symbols for the tag and comma themselves because it redirects and breaks itself. You will need to use the "%23" and "%2C" in the URL.

@dragonaire:

That's because, for URLs, a lot of non-alphanumeric characters are reserved for specific functions in address retrieval. So, they need to be encoded; otherwise, your browser with think you mean something different than what you mean and the URL will be navigated incorrectly.

Also @dragonaire:

These are basically hard-coded links to pages that exist. Tumblr just isn't giving us a way to access them via the search bar. The only thing the OP is doing is letting you know how to generate that URL yourself instead of being limited by the search bar. If this doesn't work for you, then either you mis-formed the URL, or the terms you're searching have special characters that need to be encoded, or the query you searched just doesn't have any results.

@dzamie:

This is an "and" search. Though if you have three tags, "#foo", "#bar" and "#foo bar", searching for "#foo, #bar" will return posts tagged both "#foo" and "#bar" as well as posts tagged "#foo bar" (it searches for the terms within tags, not for exact matches).

@neiratina:

In Firefox, you can simply leave the spaces blank and the browser will add them for you.

@isolatedphenomenon:

Typing "/search/[tag1]+[tag2]" works as well!

figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

[hate-not-wanting-a-name]

Testing testing

[the-dreamland-au]

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔻𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕌 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 𝕊𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙

Step inside in this Kirby AU blog simply known as The Dreamland AU! This is based off the headcannons when the pufflings used to met the humans years ago before the war broke out and created a headcannon that Meta Knight and Kirby are biologically related.

If you prefer to see all the post appeared on the blog, search up #kirby post. However if you only want to see the posts related to the AU fanfic story, then search up #kirby au.

There is many fanarts in this blog as it can be found through #kirby fanart or if you prefer to see wip that is #kirby wip.

With the blog contains the OCs that will be part of the AU fanfic story especially building up the backstory and the past. An undead vulture named Fjalar used to kill many people following his master's order before he is able to gain free will through murdering his own master. He show up in the posts through #fjalar or if you want to get specific with seeing arts of Fjalar would be #fjalar fanart or wip of Fjalar would be #fjalar wip.

Zaro the gremlin sock demon who loves play on pranks and jokes for fun. He may look weird as he is in fact half gremlin and half demon. If you want to meet up with Zaro, use #zaro. Not unless if you only want to see arts only that is #zaro fanart. There are wips of Zaro as it can be found through #zaro wip.

Minerva is a sarcastic wit Philoricle who used to work in a royal family created by a wizard before the kingdom has fallen through war. All the posts related over to Minerva would be #minerva while arts of Minerva is #minerva fanart. However if you want to see wips of Minerva, search up in the blog as #minerva wip.

[glassinshard]

𝕬 𝕲𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘 𝕷𝖔𝖙𝖚𝖘 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖉 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖌 𝕾𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍

Welcome into this dark, twisted, and macabre world of A Glass Lotus Shard. With this blog is based off on the Kirby fanfic I am working on called A Glass Lotus Shard. The fanfic story is about the ambitious, dark knight named Dark Meta Knight decided to invade Mirror World to become a new king with the theme taking on how bullshit society can be.

If you want to find all the posts reside in this blog, search #kirby and the amazing mirror. However if you prefer to look over all the posts related to the dark fanfic, search up #glassinshard.

If you wish instead want to find certain characters appeared in the posts, to find the dark knight who took over Mirror World, search up #dark meta knight. If you prefer to meet up with the sadistic manipulator who don't care about moral consequences, the search up #reflection. Not unless meeting up with a cold, calculative Hannibal inspired villain, search up #doctor aibal.

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

girl i love tags! theyre the beat part of tumblr posts if you ask me. i been using them since i been here lol and according to tumble this blog is 12 years old i feel like a tumblr elder 😆

LOOOOOOOL nice!!

I think mine is like 8 or 9. I forget. Still!

I love tags. Unless I try to search for something via tags 😂

[goatsandgangsters]

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

[assiraphales]

a five year old had my phone & this is what he searched

[britneyshakespeare]

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[newttxt]

lulaw bodyswap (or, the exquisite humiliation of trafalgar law) for @strawhattery's birthday!

bonus: the original toilet humor gag that ended up on the chopping block

[corseque]

The final song in the Solavellan ending, when Lost Elf reappears, that is not on the soundtrack

[motorway-south]

its so funny that s1 criston is like "can we run away together" and rhaenyra rejects him and s2 alicent is like "can we run away together" and rhaenyra rejects her and s2 larys is like "can we run away together" and aegon is like yk why the hell not??

[bacchuschucklefuck]

beautiful! majestic!

[gertritude]

people always make morgana a normal cat in persona 5 non-metaverse fanfics. stop doing this. morgana should not be a cat he should be joker's annoying younger brother who wears cat ears (but they are NOT cat ears, they are the ears of his epic OC Mona who is a PHANTOM THIEF and STEALS TREASURE) and who goes into Joker's room every night at 8pm to yell at him to read him a bedtime story before going to bed. It's also funnier this way because it means Ryuji has beef with an elementary schooler