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tinyfandomflashA couple of things!
1) I've finally learned how to do the codebox, so heres the header in an easily copy-pasteble format. This will also be added to the posting guidelines in the Rules post. First up is the markdown version:
And here's the HTML version:
2) We're already using / for romantic relationship and & for platonic relationships, and now we're adding ~ for queerplatonic relationships! (Learned about this on SqWA and think it's very cool.)
3) Related to 2, I'm thinking of redoing the category tags. I just pulled them off AO3, but they're every romance oriented, and like. Yeah. I don't really know. Feedback is welcomed.
4) Author and fandom tags. I'm not sure how obvious this was, but it's 5 fics = fandom tag and 5 fics = author tag. That's not how it was originally, but this is simpler. (If you think 5 fics is too high a number or not high enough, I'm interested in your feedback.The other number I'm leaning toward is 3.)
Author tag will be done like so [a: quillpunk] to accommodate long usernames. Fandom tags will be [f: fandom name (tv if needed)].
I'm not keeping very good track of who has written how many fics and how many fics have been posted in a fandom, so if you ever do the math and go "huh. i/this fandom/that author should have a tag" just let me know somewhere.
If you don't want to have an author tag, just let me know. I don't need a reason why. :D
...And I think that's it for now!
1) I've finally learned how to do the codebox, so heres the header in an easily copy-pasteble format. This will also be added to the posting guidelines in the Rules post. First up is the markdown version:
And here's the HTML version:
2) We're already using / for romantic relationship and & for platonic relationships, and now we're adding ~ for queerplatonic relationships! (Learned about this on SqWA and think it's very cool.)
3) Related to 2, I'm thinking of redoing the category tags. I just pulled them off AO3, but they're every romance oriented, and like. Yeah. I don't really know. Feedback is welcomed.
4) Author and fandom tags. I'm not sure how obvious this was, but it's 5 fics = fandom tag and 5 fics = author tag. That's not how it was originally, but this is simpler. (If you think 5 fics is too high a number or not high enough, I'm interested in your feedback.The other number I'm leaning toward is 3.)
Author tag will be done like so [a: quillpunk] to accommodate long usernames. Fandom tags will be [f: fandom name (tv if needed)].
I'm not keeping very good track of who has written how many fics and how many fics have been posted in a fandom, so if you ever do the math and go "huh. i/this fandom/that author should have a tag" just let me know somewhere.
If you don't want to have an author tag, just let me know. I don't need a reason why. :D
...And I think that's it for now!
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Date: 2023-10-02 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-10-03 06:12 pm (UTC)As for the category tags, now that I'm thinking about it, it is kind of hard to know what to use for QPRs or ambiguous relationships, other than the other category or gen... Maybe a Category: QPR tag could cover that? I'm just spitballing though, haha.
How do you view the other tag? Thinking about it now it's such a big bucket, I would fist think it's for ships where the gender of a character doesn't fit into male or female, but now I'm also wondering if it's also for relationships that aren't purely platonic or romantic...
Speaking of platonic relationships, looking at the use of the category: gen tag on here, I wonder if a category denoting friendships would be useful. I think it would certainly get use, if implemented, but that's just my own opinion!
I think 5 is a good number for a fandom/author to get a tag!
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Date: 2023-10-06 10:08 am (UTC)I've messed around with the category tags and will make a proper post about that (hopefully) soon. but the gist is that all previous category tags got turned into 'pairing' tags, and new category tags got added. (and there's a friendship one!)
i legit have no idea what the 'other' tag means, i just copied wholesale from AO3. i assume those who use it know what it's for though *shrug*
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Date: 2023-10-08 05:57 am (UTC)I tend not to use them, even when I used to use AO3, unless the story is very heavily ship fic. For a community like this where the fandom is the important part, they seem exceptionally superfluous.
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Date: 2023-10-08 02:44 pm (UTC)