#tag search

[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!

[ambrosia-tea]

♡ Hi! ♡

So this is me organizing my blog- mostly for personal use. Also, because this is supposed to be an art blog and I want people to be able to actually find my art among the chaos lol. (Ps. I have reblogged a lot of political and some adult stuff on here, so if you're not a fan of that check out one of my other social medias or blogs)

Note: I don't have a dni, but I will block liberally, and I'll block blank blogs. I also have a byf on my carrd.

• My other blogs •

@madd-paracosms (talking about my MaDD)

@ambrosia-art2000 (18+ art)

@ishtars-gate-au (My Gravity Falls au)

@ambrosia-tea-2 (where I rb political stuff)

☆彡 Tags ミ☆

My art: Ambrosia_tea art

Art reblogs: art_reblog

Non art posts: Not_art

Queued posts: 𖤐 queue

Art tips: art_tips reblog

° My other socials °

About my other socials: They should just have my art, Tumblr is where I share my thoughts and political stuff I care about.

Instagram: ambrosia_tea200

Deviant art: AmarisArt200

Mastodon: Ambrosia_art

Toy house: Ambrosia_tea_art

Unvale: Ambrosiatea

⪻ Art info ⪼

Adopts: open

Commissions (emojis and banners): open

[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!

[callmeblake]

does anyone know a way to have tags show on my feed but NOT in tag search?

without having to switch it every time

[hate-not-wanting-a-name]

Testing testing

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[darkeye5000]

𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡

Step inside this dark world of the macabe named the BloodWay Haunt. This is my art blog where I posted up my dark and macabe arts and fanarts in there especially the ones that is not family friendly. If you want to see all the posts I got in this blog, search up #bloodway.

My Creepypasta OCs reside in this blog here which they can be found through #creepypasta oc. There is little ghost girl who died by an axe murderer named Little Lizzy haunting in the her home. To see Little Lizzy, search up #little lizzy for all the posts related to her. Any art related to Little Lizzy can be found over in #little lizzy fanart while the WIP posts are found in #little lizzy wip.

There is circus ringleader who likes to do sadistic torture simply called The Ringmaster as he can be found through #ringmaster. All the art of Ringmaster can be search up through #ringmaster fanart while the WIP posts of him are found in #ringmaster wip.

Metum is a shadow ghost that haunt and feed off on fear through a ritual summoning on very specific day and time. She can be found over into #metum. All the art related to the shadow ghost are found in #metum fanart while the WIP posts of Metum are in #metum wip.

There is that black parasite demon named Entity who feeds off negative emotions. To find Entity in the posts can be found through #entity. Specifically finding any art related to Entity by searching up #entity fanart as the WIP posts of Entity are found through #entity wip.

Simply called Hacker Boy who Entity stole away from his mother when he was a baby and grow up became a hacker prodigy. The posts related to Hacker Boy can be found through #hacker boy. With the arts related to him are found by looking up #hacker boy fanart.

[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.

[derek-jefferson]

Derek Jefferson Blog Search

Welcome to this blog about one sarcastic, smarth mouth stick figure named Derek Jefferson! Derek likes to go off into multiple dimensions from the device he invented meeting up weird dopplegangers and strange worlds. He hangs out with his other friends: a timid teen named Timmy Jones and a rich secretly punk girl named June Swift.

To find all the Derek Jefferson post, simply search up #derek jefferson. But if you only want to find posts specifically when Derek visit over to different dimensions, search up #derek's adventure.

If you prefer to meet up with his friends, search up in the blog as #derek's friends. However if you prefer to meet up with just June Swift, then search #june swift while for Timmy Jones search up #timmy jones.

If you only want to see all the Derek's dopplegangers in the posts, search up #derek dopplegangers Because there are three dopplegangers with each of them got different personalities, you can search up on the three individually. For Kered Nosreffej search up #dumb derek, then for Feder J Keerson search up #evil derek, and for Edson Ferek Jerf search up #scaredy cat derek.

[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

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[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??

[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