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Just a psa for fic writers who use the “trauma bond” tag, please make sure you’re using it correctly. A trauma bond is not two people who experience similar trauma and bond over it. It’s a carefully curated, manipulative bond between abuser and victim to keep the victim coming back because of the addictive highs and lows that come with abuse.
If you want to tag two characters bonding over shared trauma, a good substitute tag would be “bonding over shared trauma.” Trauma bonding is, by definition, an abusive relationship and may steer people who have experienced it away from your fic. Please spread the word and happy writing!
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1. Jester is very goofie but can't speak. 2. Jester can change her size from short to tall. 3. Jester has a playlist of her fav songs because she has so many.
Starting my first tag chain i guess…
Questions:
1: What is your character/sona’s personality like?
2: How much taller or shorter do you think they (your character) would be compared to you irl?
3: Do they canonically have a favorite song?
Me personally, I’m choosing my character Yomo for all three of these…
My answer:
Yomo is a very mysterious individual, he doesn’t show much emotion on his face and holds little empathy for other individuals. He knows Yoru has an attraction to him and is unwilling to reciprocate any romantical feelings. (If he even has any.) At the same time, Yomo harbors a hidden hatred toward Chimera for unknown reasons…
Yomo would definitely be taller than me as he is around 7ft7... (Yoru is around 6ft4. still taller than me.)
Yomo’s song choices would likely be limited as he’s not the type to listen to music. But his most favorite would likely be Empty Walls by Serj Tankian…
Tagging fellow internet peoples:
@r3inatinho @chexotica @zemfruit @xxtailbonexx @goldenikaros @outhoraz @canespalatii @the-faramir @aetherspiritart @azrawolf @langleybnuuy @rexbalistidae @mart-rt @fleaful @midnightcrustcat @warningdeko @corporalmoth @dubtheproto @dracoaurantius @di-devil
(I may have gone a bit insane on the tagging. But if you don’t want to partake, then feel free to ignore…)
A Comprehensive Guide to Archive of Our Own Filters
It’s complicated, I know. I’ve been using the website for years and there’s still stuff I don’t understand! I thought it’d be a nice idea to add a little guide for the filters on here for all those who need it. Enjoy!
What is Archive of Our Own?
Archive of Our Own, called Ao3 for short, is an “archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.” (Official Statement on the website.) It’s a place where fans can find and enjoy work from the others within their own fandom, as well as upload their own work!
What are Filters?
On Ao3, Filters allow users to narrow down their searches so that they can find the specific things they’re looking for. BUT, the Filtering system — as well as the tagging system — on Ao3 can get a little complicated.
That’s what this guide is for, so continue on!
Understanding Filters
After selecting a fandom to search in, you’ll see the following image, slightly varied depending on if you’re on desktop or mobile:
(I’m on mobile and I used the Naruto fandom as an example.)
Upon clicking the Filters button, you’ll see a number of choices and drop-down menus:
I’ll be going over these in order!
What is Sort By?
The first option you see is the Sort By menu. Upon clicking the drop-down menu, there are nine things to choose from. What Sort By allows you to do, is choose the order you want your search results to appear in. If, for example, you want the longest fanfics with a bunch of words to appear first, you would click the Word Count option.
If you want the most recently updated fanfics to appear first, you would click the Date Updated option. If you want the fanfics to appear in an alphabetical order (A-Z), you would either click Title or Author.
NOTE:
Numerical Order — Word Count, Hits, Kudos, Comments, Bookmarks.
Alphabetical Order — Author, Title.
Chronological Order — Date Posted, Date Updated.
Include or Exclude?
After Sort By, there are two sections: Include and Exclude.
If there are tags you want to see, make sure to select them under the Include section.
BUT, if there are tags you do NOT want to see, select them under the Exclude section.
What are Ratings?
Content ratings are used for games, TV shows, and movies. They rate how suitable the work is for its audience, and Ao3 does the same.
Ratings are as follows from most widely suitable to least suitable:
General Audiences - E for everyone can read it!
Teen and Up Audiences - 15 and up, leave the children behind.
Mature - 18 and up, sorry teens, adults only!
Explicit - Even some of the adults left the room. 🤐
Not Rated - In limbo, the author decided not to use a rating.
What are Warnings?
Warnings are assigned to works that contain triggering content that can make readers upset or uncomfortable.
Ao3 Warnings are as follows:
Major Character Death - If a work includes an important character death that doesn’t happen in the source material.
Graphic Depictions of Violence - If a work includes gruesome scenes, blood, murder, death, torture, or fighting.
Underage - If a work includes minors participating in illegal acts, specifically regarding sex.
Rape/Non-Con - If a work includes scenes where non-consensual sex takes place.
No Archive Warnings Apply - None of the above warnings are included in the work.
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings - For one reason or another, the creator does not disclose the warnings in the tags, or the warnings just don’t apply.
What are the Categories?
Ao3 Categories allow you to pick the relationship dynamics you wish to search for, or exclude from your search. They are as follows:
M/M - Two male characters in a relationship.
F/F - Two female characters in a relationship.
F/M - One female character and one male character in a relationship.
Multi - More than one kind of relationship and/or a relationship with more than two people.
Other - A relationship that’s not covered by the above categories.
Gen - Fics that aren’t primarily about shipping or explore different types of character relationships.
What are the Fandoms?
Obviously, fandoms are the different fan communities for pieces of entertainment media (musicians, games, tv, anime, etc.) Since you usually select the Fandom you want before filtering, this might confuse you, but it does have a purpose.
The Fandoms section allows you to choose other fandoms within the one you’re searching for. This is for crossover fanfics, or fics that take inspiration and story elements from more than one source material.
When you click the Fandoms tab, it shows you the top ten most used fandom tags under the fandom you’ve already picked. My example fandom was Naruto, so Naruto is the first fandom that shows up.
What are Characters?
The Characters tab shows you the characters in the source material of the fandom you’re looking in. It shows the top ten most used character tags within your search and the amount of fics that they are tagged for in parenthesis.
Select their names to include/exclude different characters.
What are Relationships?
Under the Relationships tab, it shows you the top ten most used relationship tags for the characters within your fandom. The relationships might include characters from other fandoms as well as the commonly written Blank Character/Reader or Blank Character/Original Character fanfics, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Select any of them to include/exclude from your search.
What are Additional Tags?
When you click Additional Tags, it shows the top ten most used tags in general for your fandom that don’t apply to the prior sections. Here, you’ll probably find the Alternate Universe tags, the Angst tag, the Fluff tag, and other common subjects found in your fandom’s fanfiction community.
Other Tags To Include/Exclude?
If the tag you’re looking for couldn’t be found in the previous options, then type it into the Other Tags search bar and you’ll likely find it. If it's a common tag, then it’ll show in an autofill selection pop-up underneath the search bar. If it doesn’t show up there, then you can still type it in yourself and see if you can find any fanfics that fit your search.
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Now, after all that, there’s still a few more things to tackle, and that would be the More Options section. Under More Options, there are miscellaneous things you can choose to further refine your search.
Crossovers?
We talked about crossovers earlier! Under this section, you can choose one of three options: Include Crossovers, Exclude Crossovers, and Show Only Crossovers.
Include Crossovers allows crossover fanfics into your search, Exclude Crossovers removes crossover fanfics from your search, and Show Only Crossovers is for if you’re only searching for crossover fanfics.
What is Completion Status?
Completion Status is how much of a work is finished. Here, you have three options: All Works, Complete Works Only, and Works in Progress only.
All Works includes both complete and incomplete works in your search. Complete Works Only filters out any works that are not finished. Works in Progress Only filters out any works that are finished.
What is Word Count?
Under Word Count, you can decide how long you want the fanfics in your search results to be. Depending on the amount of words you specify, it will filter out any fanfics that do not fit into your range.
There are two search bars. The first search bar is labelled From. The second is labelled To.
If you put a number in the From search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics with a word count that is equal to and more than the number you searched for.
If you put a number in the To search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics with a word count that is equal to and less than the number you searched for.
Putting numbers in both search bars will give you fanfics with a word count that falls between the two numbers.
What is Date Updated?
Under Date Updated, you can search for works that were updated within a specific time period.
Like the Word Count tab, there is a From search bar and a To search bar. Clicking on either of these search bars should cause a mini calendar to pop up, where you can select the date that you want to specify.
If, for some reason, that does not happen, then the date format should look like this: YYYY-MM-DD.
If you put a date in the From search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics that have been updated on that date and afterwards.
If you put a date in the To search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics that have been updated on that date and previous.
Putting dates in both search bars will give you fanfics that have been updated within the time span you have searched for.
What is Search Within Results?
The Search Within Results search bar allows you to further specify what you want. Here, after you select all your tags, any thing you put in this search bar will be found in the title or summary of your search results. You can search for specific authors or specific phrases, if you want. NOTE: all the stories you search for will have all the tags you selected.
There’s a small blue question mark next to where it says Search Within Results, and that gives you instructions on how to use special characters/symbols to include or exclude which words you’d like or would not like to find.
What is Language?
After choosing all the different tags and all of that, you have your last selection option. Here, you’ll see a drop-down menu where you can choose one language that you want all of your search results to be in.
Anddd… done!
When you’re ready, click the Sort and Filter button and your search results will pop up!
I hope A Comprehensive Guide to Ao3 Filters has been helpful for anyone confused about the filters and search options. If you’ve got anymore questions, don’t be afraid to ask.
ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 ℛℯ𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ!
Taxomin, out! ⭐️
The amount of INCEST in anime i have seen is just diabolical 😔 i watched sword art online w my brother when i was like 7 and had to WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THE FACT THAT INCEST EXISTS..
meltdown diaries #1
why is finding friends so hard i don't understand. I don't think I've had a friend irl or even really talked to someone my age in 2 years. I dont know what's so wrong with me. I'm 17, I'm supposed to have sorted this out by now. I don't know how to fix myself, I swear I've grown in these two years. don't know if it's my autism again but i just need friends. I like friends. I like talking. I have autistic peers at college and they have friends, but they all have their own groups and I feel like I don't fit. i just need something, someone. theres no clubs where I live so I don't even know where to find friends. the only thing I have is work college and my bed, and I can't go on like this. I just need the world to be gentle, just for once. I just want to laugh with someone who isn't my 15 year old sister who has to talk to me because we live in the same house. Im just tired, so tired. feel like I'll be alone forever, and I swear I'm a better person. I'm just shy. I wish I was normal, but it's always been this way, and it always will
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Hugs for everyone from me, too!
@rookie-d @akayauchiha @gigglestorm14 @kaiyaru-art @kingsunwukong @louiserandom @malakia215 @madmothmadame @sleepysenseis @une-amie
And anyone wo might want or need one, too!
HUG GAME!
I got tagged by @a-boy-named-mike! Thank you so much for tagging me, darling~!
Rules: Reblog this with a gif or picture of two things or people hugging then tag as many people as you want so they get a hug today!
Tagging: @yamireiki, @louiserandom, @olliya, @crystallized-shadow, @jkrobertson, @blamedorange, @officerjennie, @kaiyaru, @theshadowslikeme, @sosanyanyame, @inmapollito, @evilkitten3, @hashixmito, @sleepysenseis, @punch-a-hole-in-me, @unadibujantemediocre264, @jenlivlove, @tribalpredetor92, @equizona, @rukia-kuchiki-divided, @superduperl, @budgie2, @genericnarutoblog, @nutellanoel, @anistar13, @anxioussailorsoldier, @oomaemioo, @vev-archive, @gay-and-random-shit-i-can-find, @tukasakiryoko, @caffeinatedgremlin, @hopefuluniverse2, @lemongrass-and-cedarwood, @ravenfairchild, @ximenart15, @artbythedarkside, @koolkat417, @scoundrel-to-the-public, @godaime-obito, @catsandcoffee103, @mxxnlice, @sacalyamroma, @clamp-box, @raven1aris, @i-need-life, @mumseyjr, @theswordofpens, @succulentbutt, @surfacage, @ka-ku-zu, @helenieczka, @the-con-she-called-conscience, @handlebarasmr, @fandomshavemessedmeup, @lacxfire, @solisfated, @gonnadosomethingwmylife, @treidaaja, @lunarcatninja, @rookie-d, @kokodrawings, @visoredappreciation, @seireiteisins, @unohanadaydreams, @birkastan2018, @vita-divata, @yomi-gaeru and anyone else who needs and wants a hug~!
I have no idea how to keep it neat with so many wildly unrelated things going on.. I've decided to try something before it gets out of hand, so some of the tags in the pinned are pretty deserted to start with. I'm gon' do whatever for a year or so, see what sticks. getting a ware-overdo, so hopefully I'll at least be getting back into music & some edits soon :)
Poetry Snap fiction
Queer -related Other non-fiction
site: crystaly.art
second feed for slightly chaotic reblogs & fandom things
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sexual violence, murder/death, body horror, mental illness, teenage drug use & sexuality, blood, politics, moral chaos, language, obscure references & questionable humor
(dead dove, do not eat)
From now on I'll be using trigger tags #gore for graphic violence, gore & crude neutralism, and #skin for nudity & hypersexual content. These tags will be used based on descriptiveness alone, in text as well as visuals; themes such as self-harm and drug abuse might still appear without them.
I refuse to tag language for obvious reasons.
Contentwise I've been asked to tag shorts, (#a hundred words #short) and was already doing #poem I don't usually tag themes/styles.
Oop I only did it here cause I put one on my main but thank u bby💕💕
tag game!
I bumped into this amazing picrew and thought I’d start a tag game since I haven’t seen any going around in a while
Tagging: @theo-oface @choicesarehard @iaraiumi @caroldxnvxrs @pixelberrytrash @noesapphic @mrsbhandari @hellospunkiebrewster @brightpinkpeppercorn @client-327 @zigtheeortega @nazario-sayeed @tyeril and anyone who wants to do this!