drst:
i am super duper appreciative of ao3 and the shit they have to put up with for us assholes
but i’d really like to request a function where you can say ‘ok i want this pairing at this rating with this tag bUT I DONT WANNA SEE THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG AND THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG MIGHT BE DESTIEL’
This function exists! The links below all describe the same basic task (removing a tag from your search results), based on different goals or comfort levels with AO3. If you know AO3 really well, try the first 3 sets of links. If not so well, try the last 3. (Dizmo’s has pictures so is possibly easiest.)
Good luck, and drop me an ask if you get stuck!
The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 1
The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 2
The Search Within Results Field and You, Round UpJan’s 7-Step Tutorial on how to filter out Characters and/or Relationships on AO3
Convenient round-up!
(Note that the first link contains some other nifty things you can do with the filters, like showing only one-shots, or works above a certain word count, or only your private bookmarks. o/)
I super recommend that once you find the perfect search string for you, you bookmark that search page. Then in the future you can go to that bookmark and re-run the search again, and see the new fics that have showed up without the stuff you don’t want.
Props to AO3 for caring about the fans with abuse-related triggers that often get mocked and/or ignored because it gets in the way of a fanbase’s aesthetic.
as someone who works with metadata and databases every day, I gotta say, AO3′s functionality is the shit. I wish my work databases were this easy to work with.
^^^
Tag: fandom
@zombiegorecheese said:
Last generation we had “I don’t own or claim to own any of this fictional property”, this generation we have “I don’t support or condone anything written, this is fiction”. Next generation we will have something new. Always gonna be crazy shit and always gonna be people who take this stuff too serious.
The disclaimers at least had a purpose, because people like Anne Rice had armies of lawyers and a supreme hatred of fanfic. The only difference now is that the hatred and hurt is coming from within fandom instead of outside of it.
I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality, that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.
When you want to Fandom but you have to Life.
Hell house. I will never forget your story about hell houses. Ever. I can never, ever unsee them. Ever.
I love that this is the fic you remember. Because I don’t consider it a major writing effort or anything, but reactions like this are a nice fat middle finger up at that condescending ‘journalist’ who was trying to boss the fandom around.
I didn’t realise you’d been his target too. His review of your lovely little fic tells us everything we need to know about him.
Fandom fuckboys, eh, they comes and they goes and it’s always the same story, “Write what I like, not what you like.” I’ve honestly lost count over the years. I think the only one worth remembering is Emperorsteele because his rabid thoughts on yaoi are good for a laugh, looking back. Some legacy.
Well, fandom, it’s happened again. I spotted a copy of the most recent BNF in the hospital bookstore and thought, ‘Why would they be stocking a book about Big Name Fans?’
It’s really the British National Formulary, the little book of pharmaceuticals and what they’re for.
honestly now
When will we let younger people know that IT’S OKAY TO BE SILLY and that you’re not less smarter for loosening up sometimes? I mean… it’s okay to get excited over stuff, and be a shipper, and make silly fanart just for the hell of it, and you don’t have to be a “serious fan” that digs only genfic and writes bunches of essays with proper punctuation and no capslock, ever.
Just… why can’t we have both?
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