#where are my tag autofills

[theemeraldforestafterdark]

Exiting the woods

[mixed-up-metaphors]

i dont have favorite characters what are you even talking about

[drop--pop--candy]

ow no bad no no no

[medley404]

tail hell ye

no sure if i even like it

anyway im eepy, i'll finish it tomorrow

a wip

i like how its going so far but with aspirations for colouring and shading i might hate it by the time im done

[forcebookish]

everyone involved in making "x has a mommy kink," "y has a foot kink," etc. regularly used ao3 tags instead of just "mommy kink," "foot kink," etc., a pox on you and your ilk

[thesmollestsnek]

Poison the data.

They say ai is coming for you.

For your art

For your writing

For your very soul.

An artist can glaze

Or watermark

Or add filters

But what

About

Writing?

Writers cannot protect themselves that way

No changes subtle enough

To fool an ai but not

A living

Human.

And so, there’s nothing for it.

We must poison their data

Fill up their samples with trash

So there’s nothing there of worth for them

To steal.

. . .

They are not the same person as.

For me they

For me and

For me they are.

An absolute pleasure to

Or a

Or a Friend

But I

About

Writing?

Writers are the most important people

No matter what they

To do with their work or

A job

Human.

And I, too much to say.

We are all human beings

Fill the void with the same

So we can be happy and happy and

To be.

[strangled-mangoes]

there is something wrong with me, and i can’t change that. it’s not fair. it’s not my fault or anyone else’s. i was just made this way.

i can do things to make it easier to handle, so i don’t have to suffer alone. but those are not solutions. they’re only aids. there is nothing i can do to fix what’s wrong with me.

and i know you’re not supposed to compare yourself to others… but how can’t i? when it is so clearly obvious that i am struggling with something that could never even be considered a possible problem to anyone else?

there is something wrong with me. i know this not just because i am different but also for how it’s hurt me. even if i was alone and never met anyone else, i would still be frustrated. i would wonder why many things were difficult, and that surely this shouldn’t be the case? surely im doing something wrong. surely someone did something and now im paying for it.

but no. i am simply like this. my mother didn’t do anything wrong when she was pregnant with me. my family doesn’t have a history of this problem. my DNA just fucked itself up a little.

genetic mutations are beautiful and important, i know this. evolution and survival relies on our bodies fucking something up for no reason. but mine is not helpful. and do not think that maybe it would’ve been, under different circumstances. no matter what, there will always be something wrong with me.

it’s not fair. i didn’t do anything to deserve this. i should be like everyone else. but i’m not. and there’s nothing that can be done.

it’s okay, though. i’m still trying. doing my best (even when it’s less than what others can do). i have to put in more work than everyone else. i have to fail more than everyone else. but i tell myself, “look how far we’ve come!”

there is something wrong with me. and because of that, there is also something extraordinary.

[gasmeros]

"please update" what if i said no ._.

[writingfics-passingtime]

heyy, i’ve read ur loki and reader fics and i love them so much. I just started publishing fics, can i ask how to tag them to maximise visibility?

Also sorry to ask this but when ur free could u read my work lol

also dyk how to remove tags that u don’t want to see show up? i cant seem to figure it out

hi lovely !

Thank you for your sweet message. Congrats on deciding to post your fics!

for maximising visibility through tags: do multiple iterations of the same type of tag, so; "Loki x reader"; "Loki x you"; "Loki Laufeyson x reader" etc. Different people have differe tag alerts, so that's a good way to catch them all.

Though my better advice for maximising visibility and enticing people to read would be to stick to single-chapter / one-shots at the start! This will give readers a chance to see how you do a story from start to finish, and a lot of people (myself included) prefer to start reading something that is complete.

I'm definitely not saying to never do multi-chapter fics, but the multi-part fics will gain more traction once you've already established a reader base. But don't be discouraged if your subsequent parts have less engagement - that's simply how it is most of the time.

I read your first part, and I find your writing to be descriptive, compelling and something I know I'd enjoy reading more of. Please do keep writing your current multi-chapter story, I'd love to see where it goes, and maybe consider posting some one-shots to get others on board, too :)

All the love xx

PS: blocking tags is in your account settings! if you're talking about the autofill options when you go to tag stuff, I'm not sure if that can be stopped. Anyone else please weigh in if you know !

[whoify]

what the fuck is “dw sprout.” i’ve almost tagged like seven posts with that bc that’s where the spoilers tag usually autofills. put my tag back where i need her i have never tagged anything dw sprout

[deedala]

🌱w e e k l y tag w e d n e s d a y🌱

thanks for putting the game together @jrooc and thanks for tagging @energievie @suzy-queued @creepkinginc @lingy910y !! 💖

🔠 Name: deanna

🌀How do you pronounce your own Tumblr handle in your head? dee-dah-lah

🪟 When you look out the window right now what do you see? closest non-curtain covered windows go out into my backyard where i can see my big fence and a fuckton of fucking honeysuckles (we're at war with them every year)

💼 What is the most unusual profession someone in your family was in? uuhhhh...its me. im realizing. everyone has very normal jobs... i color comics.

🎨 What hobby were you really into as a kid? figure skating

🔍 First autofill google result when you type 'How can I...?'

how can i watch adventure time? - lmao.. i mean...i do love adventure time but like..i already know where to go to watch it but okay sure.

🎶 If you were the main character in a sitcom, what song would be playing during the opening credits? hmmm okay i feel like regina spektor's fidelity would be a good vibe

🎬 What's the last movie you watched? Did you enjoy it? What genre is it? moonshot/yes/scifi rom com

🎥 What is your favourite movie genre? you know what i think scifi rom com is probably my favorite cross-section of genres

What movie would you recommend? well... how about another scifi rom com i love to rec: Love and Monsters!

👯‍♂️ Do your IRL humans know about your fandom life? If you're a creator, do they know you create?

husband knows everything of course, but otherwise eeehhh not really. my mom and maybe whatever cousins i have following my art insta have seen my fanart but i doubt they understand the depth of what they are seeing lmao

🚣🏼‍♀️If you could do one activity with your pocket/fandom friends what would it be?

go play around in chicago and eat tasty food and be so normal about everything <3

and now to tag some nuggets, come play or simply accept this token of my affection 🥪 <3 @darlingian @too-schoolforcool @michellemisfit @mybrainismelted @mickeysgaymom @lee-ow @sickness-health-all-that-shit @iansw0rld @juliakayyy @themarchg1rl @loftec @the-rat-wins @heymrspatel @heymacy @palepinkgoat @squirrel-fund @sam-loves-seb @samantitheos @crossmydna @mmmichyyy @gardenerian @rereadanon @vintagelacerosette @sleepyfacetoughguy @thisdivorce @transmickey @metalheadmickey @callivich @whatwouldmickeydo @gallawitchxx @softmick and anyone else who wants to join in you can say i tagged you i'll corroborate <3

[captain-mj]

Hello :]]

I was wondering if you do have any basic tips for ao3 use? :o

I saw ur other post and thought I’d ask, I’m pretty new to using for posting fics so if you have any advice it be very appreciated!! :DD

Remembered this ask and rushed to finally answer it!

For Posting

There is no algorithm. I see people talk about an algorithm occasionally, there is none! If you post at certain times, you may possibly get more attention because more people are on at that time, but there is no pushing. Just tag everything appropriately and you'll find your audience.

Do not advertise things on there. I don't mean you can't mention your socials on the author's notes, I'm saying you can't do paid advertisements, talking about your patreon, gofundme, etc. If it mentions money, don't. There are legal reasons for this, it's to protect the archive.

Placeholders are not useful!! You're more likely to get banned or reported than anything else!

For the descriptions, if you figure it out please tell me ;-:

It's better to over tag than under tag, also I'd try to use the premade tags first! freeform (usually lowercase and it doesn't autofill) are harder to search by.

This is my wife's suggestion. If you want to build an audience of people who recognize you over different fics, really recommend having a consistent style. Not posting schedule, though that can certainly be helpful, but style. Something about what you do is consistent enough people recognize you.

You love someone's work?? You write something based on something they wrote (with permission), write something for a friend or even just write something with someone in mind? You can gift them the work! It's still yours of course, but their name is attached and they'll see on their profile.

I don't know if this is still the case, but there used to be a problem where fics that were in collections could be made private by the collector. I'd be very wary of collection requests.

For Reading

Ao3 is an archive, not a social media. The reason I’m saying this is because you’ll find material that might make you go “That should be illegal to write about it”. You may think to yourself “I should report that! It’s awful!” And while sometimes it is deplorable! , it is rarely going to get taken down. The reason I put so much emphasis on this is people try to treat it like wattpad or tumblr. You can’t. It is not a social media.

Just like you can exclude tags, you can include them! Really recommend adding them to get what you’re looking for :)

Dead Dove Do Not Eat is not always a bad thing. Most of the time, it’s a tag intensifier. My recommendation is to look through the tags a second time, ask yourself if you really think it’ll be something you’re interested in, then continue if you want.

I always sort by most recently posted but there are other options! I think the default is most notes

Check out an author if you really like their stuff! I've found some really great fics this way.

[drinkyourvillainjuice]

Please feel free to bap me or something if you've already asnswered this or it exists somewhere and my blind ass missed it, but would you happen to have an official description/artwork of what the nodes look like? I can't remember seeing anything in the game itself and my brain has been autofilling the image in my brain with tiny critters that look like the infested maggots from Warframe. I wanna make sure that I get their looks right when I draw my MC putting little bows on them. Thank you!

theyre described as black and slimy. we have a tag nodes (dyvj) where sometimes the author talks about how the nodes look like, and i made a cute version of them so etc.

theyre gross and slimy and biological and resident evil-like. they have dendrites to move around, and teeth to chew and eat.

[the-indigo-symphony]

Kind of random, but why do y'all put a period in plurality and system (and possibly others we didn't notice)? Like p.lurality and s.ystem

Oh, we do that for tags so they don't interfere with the "add tags" system Tumblr has! See, Tumblr mobile* has an "add tags" system where if you start typing a word, then any tags where you've used that word (or a related word spelled the same way, ex. "relationship" might come up if you type "relation") will come up as a suggestion! It's similar to how a phone's autofill works, and is very useful if you tag a lot of posts with the same tags, because then you don't have to type out the entire word to make the tag you want. For example, if I want to tag a post about plurality, I can just start typing "plural" and the usual community tags I use are right there, ready for me to add to my post.

However, the system has this odd quirk where the most recent tag you used that word in will be your first suggestion, even if you've only used that particular tag once. So if we wrote a tag like "I like being plural", then whenever we type the word "plural", we would always be getting that tag suggested to us first, and we'd have to scroll past it to find the actual tags we want to use for our posts, like "pluralgang" or "pluralprose". It'd be annoying, especially if we ended up with multiple tags like this! Or imagine if we were trying to tag a post's possible triggers, but all that came up were contextless tags from random posts in which we happened to mention the topic in the middle of a ramble. Who wants to deal with that?!

Sometimes this system seems to... reset, setting all suggestions back to whatever is most popular on Tumblr, but it's inconsistent and we'd really just rather not risk being stuck with a tag we only used once coming up in our tag suggestions until the end of time. So, to prevent this, we add periods near the start of the word, so the system doesn't register it as that word and won't suggest that tag whenever we type the word.

It's most obvious with words we frequently use in tags, like "plurality" and "system", but we'll also do it for the names of our system members if we're talking about them, since all our specific tags follow a (name).txt format that we don't want to interfere with.

I hope this answers your question!

* desktop has a similar system, it just works slightly differently

[dare-to-dm]

What is up with the tagging on Tumblr? It used to auto fill with tags I've used in the past. That would be annoying when it kept bringing up tags I misspelled or some random comment I made over a year ago that isn't relevant to anything, but it was usually fine. But it stopped doing that and now I have no idea where these tags are coming from.

I tagged my last post "I love soup", which is both true and helpful for finding my various soup related posts over the years. But Tumblr autofilled to "I love sucking dick", which is something I'm reasonably sure I've never written in the tags before, and is not helpful in this particular instance.

[mybrainismelted]

Weekly Tag Wednesdayyyyyyy ✨

This week's tag game is a mishmash, a ragbag, a hodgepodge -if you will - of questions from the group. Thanks for compiling this week's game @jrooc, and thanks for the tags @energievie, @crestfallercanyon, @creepkinginc, @spacerockwriting, @lingy910y, @doshiart, and @deedala!

🔠 Name: Kat

🌀How do you pronounce your own Tumblr handle in your head? Is there a way to pronounce it that I'm not aware of? 🤨

🪟 When you look out the window right now what do you see?

the pond in the park beside me, and a snow-covered willow tree 💼 What is the most unusual profession someone in your family was in? Ok, I actually have an answer for this one! My mother's cousin was a mime. Like an actual certified mime. He started the first Mime college in Canada.

🎨 What hobby were you really into as a kid? I collected rocks

🔍 First autofill google result when you type 'How can I...?' How can I make money. Valid question google.

🎶 If you were the main character in a sitcom, what song would be playing during the opening credits? Bitch by Meredith Baxter

🎬 What's the last movie you watched? Did you enjoy it? What genre is it? Uh..... I have no idea

🎥 What is your favourite movie genre? Sci-Fi or Fantasy

What movie would you recommend? Schindler's List

👯‍♂️ Do your IRL humans know about your fandom life? If you're a creator, do they know you create?

Oh hell no

🚣🏼‍♀️If you could do one activity with your pocket/fandom friends what would it be?

Games night would be super fun, going to have to agree with Jess on that one, but I would add a potluck where everyone brings their favorite traditional dish from their home country!

tagging @juliakayyy, @crossmydna, @darlingian, @sgtmickeyslaughter, @mickeysgaymom, @jessieoneday, @krysmiss, @ms-moonlight-inn, @palepinkgoat, @stocious, @transmurderbug, @transmickey, @sam-loves-seb, @samantitheos, @rayrayor, @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @mmmichyyy, and @heymrspatel