sovay | It's always ourselves we find in the sea

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It's always ourselves we find in the sea

With the encouragement of

thisbluespirit who kindly provided me with an invite, I have edged slightly into the future and copied my tiny collection of fic over to AO3. It was either that or start retro-tagging entries on Dreamwidth.

Please feel free to come find me, signal-boost, whatever the etiquette is. I've got five fandoms and seven fics and no idea how to tag anything. I do not foresee myself participating in exchanges simply because I write an average of one piece of fanfiction a year, but then again until 2011 I did not foresee myself writing fanfiction at all.

Excelsior?

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Yay! I'm

rosefox too, natch.

All your tagging looks pretty good to me.

Yay! I'm rosefox too, natch.

Excellent! I will go and read you.

I was very surprised that no one had taken my customary handle. I figured in ten years it would have been snapped up.

All your tagging looks pretty good to me.

Thank you. It is really something I have no experience with and looks as though it may have, like Tumblr tagging, a sort of metadata narrative style of its own.

It does a bit, but mostly it's there to be useful. Two things that are helpful: putting "tags contain spoilers" first in the list if they do, and knowing that many tags redirect to ("are synned to" in AO3 parlance) semantically identical tags for ease of searching. So if you're writing Lucy/Caspian, you can probably tag it any number of Lucy/Caspian, Caspian/Lucy, Lucy Pevensie/Caspian, etc. and it will display as what AO3 has decided is the authoritative tag.

and knowing that many tags redirect to ("are synned to" in AO3 parlance) semantically identical tags for ease of searching. So if you're writing Lucy/Caspian, you can probably tag it any number of Lucy/Caspian, Caspian/Lucy, Lucy Pevensie/Caspian, etc. and it will display as what AO3 has decided is the authoritative tag.

Thanks! I noticed the redirection with a couple of character names and was not actually worried that I had done something wrong, but also was sure what governed it.

Edited 2018-07-19 07:42 (UTC)