Yuletide and AO3

[jlh]

I got femslash for Yuletide!!

Always There Whip It! Bliss/Pash, 1600 words. Perhaps the love Bliss Cavendar had been searching for had always been there for her all along …

Super great, super fun, super satisfying. I am well pleased. Go, read!

I've spent the past few days reading other Yuletide fics and will put up a rec post hopefully later this week.

In the meantime, I'm organizing my fics during my week off and I'm adding some freeform tags to my stuff on AO3. What tags have you found work for you? What tags are you using other than the ones you're prompted to use?

Here's some that I figure I'm going to be using:

alternate canon (for the HP post-GoF stuff)
alternate universe
alternate universe historical
community: kink bingo
schmoop bingo
kiss bingo
community: fanfic 100
challenge: (big bangs and other challenges)
romance
(name of kink)
chromatic character
character of color
epistolary (for the Philadelphia Story fic)
post-canon
friendship
rare pairing
LGBTQ character
female character
humor
holidays
virginity

I admit I'm nervous about the female/chromatic/LGBTQ character tags; I always feel like people are looking for something that's more specific than that, or using it to mean something other than what it literally means. I hate excusing myself with the letter-of-the-law excuse, but does just having a female character as a big part of a fic qualify for the tag? Can you only label gen fics as "friendship"?

The thing is, I write a lot of ensemble fics, especially for HP, so I hesitate at the term "main character"; I rarely write long fics about one or two characters. It's entirely possible that my hesitation on all of these "does it count" matters is predicated on the insistence of something being a "main character" or a "main plot" when I honestly feel that the HP stuff has 8-10 main characters, roughly equal in their POV scenes, and therefore lots of different ship types, etc. Hopefully I will not get angry comments!

Comments

[alwayswondered]

My method when it comes to tagging on DW is to add a tag for anything that feels like a 'significant' part of the entry, and I suppose I'd tag fics the same way. So if a fic has a female main character, even if she's not the only main character, I think it's legit to use 'female character' as a tag. Likewise with 'friendship'; if the friendship is a focus, or part of the fic is about the friendship, then I wouldn't dispute the use of it on a shippy fic. But I wouldn't comment angrily on someone's tag use anyway, even if they annoyed me, so maybe my opinion shouldn't count for that much. :P

[boundbooks]

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If you're into Yuletide, you might enjoy yuletide. :)

[jlh]

I wonder if the idea that I should do everything from some defensive crouch, lest some asshole be assholish all over me, is less the way to go than doing it in a way that I feel comfortable with and could defend if need be. So often I feel the need to please the most extreme and loudest voices in the hope of getting them to quiet. But I can't do that, giving myself the cookies, etc.