AAUUUGH FUCK
>>156108030>>>/lit/
>>156108030Alright this is a sign to finish my Thunderbolts fic I’ve been procrastinating on
>>156108057Yeah, that probably the best place for it.
>>156108141Actually I can’t cause AO3 is down. Fuck
>>156108030I’m struggling to finish a chapter, I don’t what direction to go and the encounter is similar to one that occurred in a previous chapter.
>>156108141>>156108250Why are you relying on an existing IP and on a website to do your writing?
>>156108250For a whole fucking month, at that.
>>156108280Practice
>AO3 going down just as november is about to beginsomeone took that retarded challenge way too seriously it seems
>>156108314You can practice without relying on existing IPs or websites.
>>156108030Good thing I have a backlog of RWBY fics to read on ff.net but now I can't update my own story. This blows.
>>156108280Because I post my fics on AO3. I mean I have a book I’m writing but I’ve been dealing with a bit of writers block so I figured writing for fun would help me out. I’m just gonna brute force or whateverBesides I like writing fanfics. It’s fun and I like interacting with commenters who aren’t bots
>>156108406I use the IPs for practice I discuss my writing here. >You can practice without relying on existing IPsAnd you can wipe your ass with leaves but I doubt you would if given the choice to use toilet paper.
>>156108280>Why are you relying on an existing IPBecause people like writing about shows, games, etc... they likeLike for example say you like a character but you feel they were underutilized you can write a story to give them more stuff>and on a website to do your writing?Because people like to share their stories with others and see what did they think
>>156108432So guaranteed feedback?>>156108480You're using recycled toilet paper.
>>156108670You didn’t answer the question because you wouldn’t use leaves. Don’t be dishonest, it just makes people hate you.
Crossposting master race wins again.
>>156108670I guess. I work best collaboratively imo so talking to my friends about my original stuff, or guys on here about fics helps get my creativity in gear
Zoom Zooms need to go back to Fanfiction.net, I honestly prefer it.
I've saved the only two whole Squiggas from AO3, assuming that there is where they've only been posted. >>156108406>You can practice without relying on existing IPsooooouuuuuugggggghhhhhhhh based
>>156108685Your analogy was incredibly dishonest.>>156108726Makes sense. I do the same, but I write original works and share in person with friends. I personally find that using existing IPs presents more of a hindrance and comes with more baggage.
>>156108778>need to go back to the site that has been coded on granite and to this day has no tagging system so you have to waddle through trash to reach a semi decent fic
>>156108778Man, is this a troll post?Everytime i update i get multiple comments complaining that they cant see the newest chapter
>>156109113I see. I have a group chat on Instagram with some friends I’ve shared my stuff with and it helps. Even talked to my Mom and Sister about it too, especially cause my Sister has written her own book (so proud of her)For me I like writing pre existing characters because I like exploring the characters I love while trying to be as true to them as possible. My Thunderbolts fic for example explores John Walker’s relationship with each of his teammatesOr I have a ship I enjoy and want to get out there. I have several fics of Terry McGinnis and Inque, Noir Peter Parker and Felicia Hardy, and Albedo and CharmcasterI do have one original story set in an existing world: Star Wars. About a Jedi and Sith having a Romeo and Juliet style romance during the Prequel Era and into the later era’s. I’ll admit I like that the most because it’s a mix of original stuff and an existing IP (I’m also a big Star Wars nerd so I get to have my own little mark in that universe)
>>156109145You like touhou. It doesn't get any faggier than that.>muh tagsLook at all these tags! I love ao3!
Feels great to be a ponyCHADOur fic site still up n' running good
>>156109893AO3>you can filter out tags you dont want to seeFF>sorry no tags, got flashbanged by idk pegging in one chapter of something you were enjoying? too fucking bad!
>>156109911There hasn't been a good new pony fic in 6 years. And even the story I'm thinking about took a nosedive.
>>156109911>Our fic site still up n' running goodit's not a hard task to take care of a graveyard
>>156109921There's a big upside to this>If a character is mentioned in a fic they're probably a major or at least secondary character vs having a singular appearance >Crossovers are 1v1 so if you wanna find some you don't have to wade through a thousand megacrossover prompt fics
>>156109911FIMFiction is the best fanfic site on the internet and it's not particularly close. From the tagging system to the formatting options to the search options I'd argue it blows everybody else out of the water, including AO3.I've always figured that whoever runs the site should license the source code out to somebody else so that it can be used for a more general fanfic site. That, or they should start such a general site themselves.
WTF Why do I get the feeling that this is some drama to do with pro-shipping/AO3 being "anti-Palestine"
>>156110452Damn, what the fuck happened?
>>156108280I don't know how to get my original book published (in a way that would earn profit)
>>156110148we need a tag for mega crossoversI don't know why autists make them, crossovers only work if the reader knows every part, at least with passing knowledge, so the bigger the crossover, the more niche it becomes
>>156108778Look man, as someone who still uses FF.net even I gotta admit the site barely fucking works. Trying to upload a fic is a hassle and even after it’s been submitted half the time someone clicks on it they get hit with an error message that says the chapter doesn’t exist.
>>156111059They write the fic for themselves primarily.
>>156111069for some godforsaken reason FF.net publishes works under 3 different URLs depending on if you navigate to it by clicking 'next chapter', navigate to it by manually selecting the chapter number from the drop-down list within a work, or navigate to either the first chapter or most recent chapter from browsing a list of works. Any given number of these URLs might hand you back a 404 for every chapter uploaded in the past ~2 years.
RETVRN
how did FF fumble it so hard
>>156111329They never bothered updating the site or implementing new features over the years until eventually all support became functionally nonexistent.
>>156111329same thing as tumblr really. never fight the porn makers. lemon purges in 07 (or thereabouts, maybe as late as 09) caused a bunch of communities to move to wattpad or to dedicated fanmade fanfiction sites that later died (HPFFA for Harry Potter and something else for naruto that i cant remember, those were the big 2 for fanfiction at the time). No one liked wattpad because the website gives you cancer for looking at it, so when AO3 became an alternative everyone jumped to it, and then eventually as fansites died everyone from those communities also converged back into AO3.
>>156111293That’s so fucking incompetently convoluted that of course that’s what they decided to do.It’s not even consistent. I’ll check my latest story, get the message, then check back in an hour and it loads just fine.Fucking useless website.
>>156111525dont even get me started. every chapter in a story has a fucking diceroll as to how many of the most recent chapters it actually sees. for a story with 94 chapters, the navigation list on chapter 1 might only show chapters up to 92, the navigation on chapter 2 might only show chapters up to 88, and then chapter 3 might show 93 chapters, and so on. about once a month they update every old chapter - but heres the kicker - sometimes when they reroll the dice a given page might lose visible chapters anyway, like chapter 3 going from showing 93 visible chapters out of 94 down to only 90.
>>156110452>>156110993It's probably from the php fuck up
>>156110452Pro-Ship, the rise of Malfoid, Anti-Palestine... either way, this feels targeted.
>>156111619What a cluster fuck that all was.
>>156111562>>156111293Oh, so that’s why that happens. I always wondered.
I'm so fucking pissed that Fictober et al will completely lose momentum during all this downtime. I was really looking forward to posting my entries on the 31st.
>>156109113>Your analogy was incredibly dishonest.No it wasn’t, you made a retarded point and when that was highlighted you had to avoid it. And now you’re making excuses.
>>156108030Ironic, this is the same week I started a Batman mini-fic
>>156108778enjoy your bots, fag
>>156112665I lucked out and decided to do Inktober instead of the writing one.
>>156112720I'm currently hard at work on the 9th book of my big sci-fi story, haven't really written fanfiction since starting it seven years ago.
>>156112720That is lucky, though I've seen plenty of people posting art for various events at AO3 (Kinktober, etc), and they're screwed too.
>>156111319Did they fix file uploads?
>>156109921>uou can filter out tags you dont want to seeif they bother to put a tag for it there are many cases where they didn't
>>156112758Name the series
>>156112995TechnocracyI hope it can get out into the world a little, I think the average Anon would like it.
>>156113003I can only find books about technocracies. Stupid google.
>had a chapter I wanted to upload on HalloweenFuck.
>>156113086I mean, here, I had a website built to house it:https://www.cashoultz.com/The whole first book's up in the Story section. I serialized it starting this past January and just ended last week. I'm going to start selling the e-book on the site as soon as Zoek gets my e-commerce off the ground, and I've also got some magazines and journals and websites where I have connections to get reviews.The second book's going to start serializing this coming April, I figure I'll give it six months to see if I can amplify my audience significantly.
>>156113223Very nice
>>156110365ao3 has better tagging than fimfiction and ao3's formatting is very powerful
>>156109893These tags are like walking into an asylum. Pure mental illness on display.
>>156114238There are quite a few people who take pride in making their stories and their tags as depraved as possible. Edgelord stuff, I think.
>>156108406Using a known work to practice your writing is the same as musician doing a cover. Nothing bad about it
>>156112758I started writing original novels a couple years ago and then made the stupid decision to go back to fanfiction for a bit.
>>156109113Share your original works, Anon
>>156111619AO3 uses Ruby on Rails though, not PHP. Rails is a decrepit clusterfuck but far, far less so than anything PHP-related.What really baffles me is the fact that it'll take up to a month to fix it. Even for a hobby/community site like AO3, that's extremely unusual. Even 4chan was down for less time than that after it got pwned, and its technical issues were quite deep.
>>156109113>I personally find that using existing IPs presents more of a hindrance and comes with more baggage.The point of fanfiction isn't to be easy-mode writing, despite it being an encyclopedia example of Sturgeon's Law in action.
>>156115058I used to write on a website that is basically held together with duct tape and prayer and it went down a few times while I was there, and a few more times after.
Damn bro, you got the whole room laughing
FF wonSB won
>>156115372Yeah sure. But even the garbage one-guy-in-his-mom's-basement sites I used back in the day were never down for that long unless they just didn't pay the hosting bill.
>>156113189What was it? I’m burdened by curiosity I must know
It's sad to think that one day probably within the next ten years the internet will get fried for real and we will lose uncountable quantities of information Library of Alexandria x100
>>156116471A chapter of an ongoing horror work I haven't updated in a while. I was trying to upload a new chapter every Halloween but I kinda fell behind on that because of other works taking up my time.
>>156116551It’s okay anon, if something like that ever happens you’ll have more important things to worry about; such as the imminent collapse of civilization itself.
Brands are now tweeting about it. It’s gone mainstream
>>156108030None of this 'outrage' would happen if retards actually crossposted their fics on other sites btw.You, solely, are responsible for this.
>>156108030This is the first fanfic thread I've seen in weeks. Are Jannie's deleting them on sight or are they only made on Fridays?
>>156108250Just think of it as having a month to finish your story.
>>156113223>book title is completely detached from the website domain nameThat is retarded, fix that.
>>156111329They did nothing and royally fucked up as it got worse.
AO3 and its consequences have been a disaster for human literature.
>>156117650Thread usually pop up near the end of the month.
>>156117728Thank you Batman that is actually really good advice. Gonna nerd out about my idea now Basically the New Avengers are doing one of their missions when Ava (Ghost) gets badly injured and John (U.S. Agent) almost loses it and has a repeat of The Incident but Yelena or someone snaps him out of itThey get Ava to the tower and John and Yelena have an argument about John almost killing a guy and John brings up how she never lets that go. And she brings up how they’ve all lost people and to let it go where he yells out that he held Lemar’s dead body. His best friend died to protect him and it was John’s fault. And that at least Yelena’s lucky that she didn’t see Natasha die in front of her. Not to mention she was manipulated into almost killing Clint Barton so neither of them are guiltlessYelena apologizes and John shrugs it off but does accept the apology. It’s awkward but they do reconcile and promise to take it easy on each otherIt’s very corny but I like interpersonal drama like that. Also Ghost is the one who almost gets her ticket punched as a call back to her chapter where John takes a bullet for her. I also establish them starting to develop feelings cause I ship them
>>156111329Lack of maintenance/updates and random purges.
>>156113223you are retardeddon't usehttps://www.cashoultz.com/Storyrename it to https://www.cashoultz.com/TECHNOCRACY
how am i supposed to read my gay sex jojo fanfics now
>>156118296Find a chatbot in the meantime.
>>156118341only kids and the mentally challenged use that
>>156118356>he said on a fan fiction thread
Amazing how SB, QQ, SV, and FF all won.
>>156118378fanfics that people actually write instead of talking to ai like a fucking baboon? yeah
>>156118296look for fan archive sites, or fanfiction swap communities. people do archive stories.
>>156118393ao3 was calling too much attention to itself. it was catering to Chinese yaoi writers, which angered the CCP. pro-pals didn’t like it because it was Zionist or something. and annoying 20 year olds were angry that it was hosting incest.
>>156118296https://fichub.netYou better hope it was downloaded in the past
>>156108030 The worst part is I just finished cleaning up what would be the next chapter in the main one I'm focusing on on the day I found out that the site A03 was down ,
>>156117457Unless, of course, the internet is fried on purpose by the powers that be in order to erase all past archives so they can bring back only the things that fit their narrative and be edited as necessary.
>>156118449There’s thousands of others like you hoping to post on the first day it’s back online, thousands more who will have more to post after a month’s absence. Rip to anyone wanting to get attention during that first week.
>>156118593Good point but I was finally getting on a bit of a schedule with tomorrow uploaded chapters and the AI I use as a secondary to help clean up my sentences and punctuation only doing so many post a day now because I don't want to spend real money on it. So maybe I'll wait a week or two after comes back online and start posting chapters on a 3 or 4 days basis to the main fanfiction or maybe I can do a better work on a side one or two.
>>156114238>>156114431just reads like something you'd see in the tag section on ehentai/nhentai
>>156118629>and the AI I useGross.
>Faggot site downGood
>Faggot site back upGodly
>>156118665AI use for proofreading is fine. AI use for writing is ass.
Hmmm, should I work on my fanfic this evening or spend the next 3 hours playing Warband?
>>156118718I'm going to fucking throttle anyone who uses ai for writing. Holy shit why does every spoken word need to be some witty remark or comparison???Everyone just sounds the fucking same
>>156108710/co/ is a dead board. What are you winning at?
>>156119333Seething behind a keyboard =/= throttling
>>156114980The night was humid.
>>156119410??? what does posting on every fanfic sit has to do with dead board known as /co/?
>>156118663>just like in that other place where depressive gooners gatherYou don't say.
>>156119547Why should I ever listen to wet blankets like you?
>>156119541
>Was reading a R63 Lorgar si fic were the mc was trying to spread Christianity throughout 40k before AO3 went downEverytime Christianity is involved in a fanfic, the whole story always ends up feeling like a giant shitpost 2 paragraphs in. Doesn't matter how sincere the author actually is, a fic involving Jesus will always feel like a massive shitpost.
>>156120077A Real Human Being is really good though.It's still funny how some people still fall for demon trickery and that one time Albert said being gay is a sin.
>>156119476Well obviously, but people deserve some shaming for using it, especially if they pass it off as their own work.
>>156116551A lot of people are currently hoarding and archiving data, including fanworks, for that reason.
>>156121061I'd do it myself if I wasn't a third worlder using a craptop with 100 GB of memoryI tried buying an external SSD and everything i put it in it just gets corrupted instantly
It's pretty funny I've seen AO3 alternatives I've never seen be posted because people outright refuse (and understandably so) to use Wattpad
>>156121222Good Wattpad is atrocious.
>>156119333I don’t know why anyone would use AI for that? One of my favorite parts is going through a chapter and fixing shit. I usually do it twice before I upload.
>>156121222Wattpad is for literal kids.
>>156121222Somebody made a comic-specific clone site using AO3 code, but it's pretty sparse. Comic Fanfiction Authors Archive.
>Finally finished writing chapter 1 of my Star Wars ficIt's not much, and it's taken some time, but it's a start.
>>156124070Every journey starts with a step. As long as you’re enjoying yourself that’s what’s important.
>>156124468Believe me, i am. Been working on it on and off for a long while, all the while thinking up a bunch more stories instead of just finishing "Chapter 1: Ki-Adi Mundi escapes Order 66," but it's finally at a point that i'm satsified with.
>>156125017I’d like to know more details. I’ve been writing some OC stuff with an Obi-Wan fic planned
>>156125157I'm gonna presume you mean either the fic or the first chapter of the fic. The fic itself is really just my own personal take on "Order 66 Happened Differently," with the oh so original "mix of EU and Disney canon," basically that thing Star Wars fans do where they make their own headcanon, mine is just the EU with most of the Disney characters thrown in because i'm generally fine with the characters.The chapter, and i'll try to keep it brief otherwise i'll be typing all night and day, has everyone's favorite conehead Jedi escape Order 66 thanks to sensing the deaths of other Jedi during the battle, all of which originate from an old comic called To the Vanishing Point. To make a long story short, he meditates, finds strength from a reminder of his lost family, contacts Jaro Tapal and discovers another Jedi in the Separatist camp: the last Jedi from the aforementioned comic that survived grievous wounds, with an implication that Palpatine was gonna make her an Inquisitor at the end. Bacara gets a couple scenes too, one inspired by how Zero Company handled Order 66, and another in a bar as he hears his chip-controlled self speak his line from Karen's Traviss' Order 66 novel.Again, a very brief summary of the fic and chapter, but i hope it answered your question.
>>156108030Luckily, I have already saved all the smut fics of my OTPs; I hope writers make use of this and give me more of my OTPs.
>>156125747It sure as hell did that sounds killer man
>>156125771All smut is shit and all gay smut is turbo-shit. Reading written porn is absolutely retarded.>b-but the female brain is more predisposed to reading about sex than watching itMore proof that women are fucking retarded.
>>156125858Glad to hear you like it! It really is interesting how things just come to you when you write. Bacara's portions were added to help extend the story since i felt it was a bit short otherwise, but the ending where he's horrified to learn he was forced to try and kill his own general, and by his own words no less... it's one of those things that you can just tell is gonna be good, you know?
>>156124468>Every journey starts with a stepAnd this is step one, SECURE THE KEYS!
fic bump
Post your ideas
Didn't know it was gonna be down for THIS long... damn. At least, I'll be able to finally read some of the stuff I have for more backlog in the meantime since I always get distracted by reading fics.Also, I'm DEFINTELY gonna download as many fics as possible whenever it does comeback. Everyone else should do that too.
>>156127976Writers should just crosspost their fics. You have dozen of sites for that, and tismos refuse to do that.
>>156128094Literally just store/organize locally and have an encrypted backup. Fic sites are for publishing, not storing.
Using FF.net I found out that those 14 year old stories that I was subscribed to and never got an ending. Wondering if the clankers are advanced enough to write a passable final chapter that gives me closure
>>156127890I was thinking of a RWBY romance fic pairing the girls up with villainous male characters for fun. Ruby and Ironwood, Weiss and Tyrian, Blake and Jacques, and Yang and Arthur Watts. Idea came from "What if Arthur made Yang's new arm?".
>>156127976Same. Fics distract me too much. Time to work on that backlog.
>>156128360Big fan of Rosewick.
>>156127976i've been reading/listening to classic novels more. maybe this is good for my brain like how i was way more productive when this site was down
MOre.
>>156128210What fics are you still hung up on?
>>156116996>wrote a story about people becoming their costumes, set it on Halloween>can't actually publish on Halloweenha ha
>>156128210They can. But it won't be the same. Same reason I haven't tried to get an AI to finish unfinished r34 comics.
>>156108030I never like A03 most of those tags for a story never actually show up in the story and then half the times they didn't put a tag for something I would have wanted to know in advance anyways
>>156118550>All human knowledge exists solely in digital form
>>156130921Objectively speaking, the majority of human knowledge is digital. The quantity of things that are only present online is ridiculous.
>Comics and Cartoons board
>>156130921Don't worry I'm sure everything will be fine.
>>156130921We're shredding books for AI learning as we speak.
>>156117539It’s been mainstream for years, anon
>>156123123Thank you for letting me know, anon. I’ll probably post my fic* on there, ao3, and comicfury when it’s done.>it's pretty sparseProbably because the webmaster sounds like a dick in all the FAQs and has strict rules regarding tagging. Also, he requires you to either join his discord (heavily preferred) or email him to join the site. The tagging thing + that probably drives away a significant portion of ao3 users.It also disallows MCU stuff completely unless it’s a major part of a crossover, which kills 99.9% of fic writers dead on the spot lol.*not doing a fic. Trying to do a fancomic. I am a horrible perfectionist who’s an amateur artist at best, which is making it hard, but I have so many story ideas I can’t just leave this alone.
>>156115058The only thing I can think of which would take an entire month is if the people running AO3 are planning to physically find and murder the hacker.
>>156131707They probably do get enough donations to put a hit on someone
>>156131707The old valve method a classic.
Ok so now you're in charge of creating the next fanfic website and adding or removing features. What would we add, what would we not add?
>>156133314Implement a strict tag limit. Ban all gay stories. Ban all reader inserts. Ban all RPF.
>>156133314It's ao3 with the enhancements extensionadd the option to filter by word length and publish date.Fics that are tagged with two or more series that are in the same universe but different medium shouldn't be crossovers.
>>156133314FF but stable and modern. You don't need 9999 tags of whatever schizo author wants.>Characters/ships>GenreThat's all you need.
>>156133702>Ban all gay stories. Ban all reader insertsKilled your platform. Doesn't matter if people like it or not, banning just makes you look like a faggot
>>156123123>Comic Fanfiction Authors ArchiveBless him. His time to shine is now.
>>156133314A tag limit and a category specific to misery porn and other harmfull "kinks".
>>156108030It is a painful time
>>156133314allow authors to select whether tags are either "major" or "minor"
wait is it seriously still down
>>1561365753.5 more weeks baby
>>156131603>It also disallows MCU stuff completely unlesslmao I understand the other stuff on some level, but is this because he has a personal grudge against the MCU?
>>156136734I mean, it certainly seems like itThe site’s made for comics and “comic-adjacent” media, but MCU doesn’t count for that I guessI’m honestly somewhat thankful, if only because MCU fics are so ridiculously plentiful everywhere else, but it’s probably reducing the userbase by a significant margin.
>>156117650they've actually gone pretty much unmolested since the start of the yearthey'll hang around for upwards a week and often hit bump limitit's been nice, very nice change
>>156133314I want a button that goes straight to the most recently released chapter. Also, every chapter should be dated so readers can get an idea of an author's release cadence.
>>156132457If I could donate to help their quest for vengeance and get the site back up faster, I would.
>>156136575Probably won't be up until December
>>156133314Make this but in english, no shipping tags but character tags are visible. Have filters for yaoi/yuri/OC/trans(TD). Have rankings etc...https://syosetu.org/
The amount of people that will log in just to update stuff is gonna be staggering.
I ripped off of popular yet niche fanfics to pass my creative writing class and nobody ever suspected a thing.
Im from ao3. Barely come here. Since you all have nothing to do and i feel like killing myself without ao3 im writing over 31 ideas for x reader fanfiction from october and want every story if possible. Please write my ideas as long as possible and post it here. And you can draw it. It is literally hurting myself mental health without this site. I don't like the ai ones very much.1 deltarune tenna pregnant 2 gravity falls bill cipher dominant triangle only3 villainous black hat blood4 hazbin hotel alastor cannibals5 undertale nightmare sans tentacles6 undertale mettaton eggs7 undertale sans belly8 undertale swap sans submissive9 hazbin hotel vox electrocution10 the amazing digital circus caine vore11 deltarune flowery leather12 deltarune spamton short man tall woman or man13 cuphead king dice vore pregnant14 creepypasta slenderman brainwashing15 creepypasta jeff the killer fear and dominance16 creepypasta eyeless jack cannibal17 creepypasta laughing jack forced18 the amazing digital circus jax femme fatale dominant woman dominate other men and woman19 the amazing digital circus kinger daddy20 the amazing digital circus male pomni voyeurimsm21 the amazing digital circus kaufmo oral22 murder drones n cannibalism23 five nights at freddys moondrop hypnosis24 five nights at freddys sundrop age regression25 five nights at feeddys glamrock freddy daddy26 five nights at freddys monty forced27 five nights at freddys vincent forced hair pulling28 five nights at freddys springtrap necrophelia29 five nights at freddys freddy fazbear urine humiliation30 bendy and the ink machine ink demon bdsm31 baldis basics baldi spanking and chasing32 creepypasta sonic exe master x slave33 sonic the hedgehog movies shadow the hedgehog kidnappingDont complain about my ideas. Dont have to credit me for the idea.
These are the ones i care less about but you should still do them.34 villainous dr flug forced experimentation torture35 undertale asgore fat36 undertale asriel fat37 undertale papyrus diapers and caretaker38 undertale grillby cigarettes39 gravity falls grunckle stan and ford threesome age difference and daddy40 undertale ink sans pregnant and crying41 undertale lust sans prostitution42 cuphead the devil master and slave43 ghost adventures zak bagans bdsm44 dahmer jeffrey dahmer cannibal45 villainous white hat dominant46 murder skulls lewis dominant47 murder drones male uzi tattoos48 the amazing digital circus evil jax submissive49 five nights at freddys male puppet tentacles50 my little pony big Macintosh size difference51 my little pony discord torture52 my little pony tirek horny in jail53 bluey bandit heeler submissive54 scooby doo shaggy rogers pregnant55 scooby doo fred jones pregnant56 welcome home wally darling shy naked57 the amazing digital circus zooble with dildo58 ratz threesome59 total drama island duncan horny in jail60 total drama island owen overeating61 total drama island chris torture 62 total drama island geoff caught naked63 total drama island justin crossdressing64 total drama island alejandro vampire65 five nigjts at freddys foxy biting66 five nights at freddy bonnie uniform67 five nights at freddys 4 night mare animatronics gang bang58 the amazing digital circus coach dictaterer uniform59 creepypasta ticci toby doctor uniform60 dont hug me im scared reg guy slutty office assistant61 dont me im scared tony torture62 dont hug me im scared colin porn virus63 dont hug me im scared warren pregnant embarassed64 camp camp david pregnant65 camp camp daniel pregant66 helluva boss stolas pee67 helluva boss blitzo pregnant eggs68 hazbin hotel angel dust service slut69 pokemon lucario kidnapping70 blippi blippi embarassed71 how to train your dragon hiccup sissy72 open season shaw hunting
holy autism
>>156134914I really don't understand the sheer philosophical hatred of tags. I obviously understand a personal dislike, the disgust one feels at seeing certain tags or them being turned into weird metacommentary. But having too many stupid tags is so obviously a much more tolerable situation than no tags at all that it feels like people talking about how there's no need for a search bar or a catalog on 4chan. They genuinely sound out of touch and just not thinking about what they're saying.
>>156135871
>>156141470>bunch of stuff nobody saidNobody is saying "no tags".
>>156141470>But having too many stupid tags is so obviously a much more tolerable situation than no tagsabsolutely not it makes searching for something specific impossible since people just jampack their stories with as many as tags as possible to get more views whether or not those tags are actually in the story or not, especially when searching by character people constantly throw up 50 damn characters that never appear in the story
>>156141470>>156141668Sounds like the solution should be a compromise. Two different tag systems, one by the author, one by the readers.
>>156141572As far as I'm concerned "only tagging genre and ship" is no tags. That's not even table stakes nowadays for finding something.I agree that too many useless tags can clutter up a search, but that's just how it goes. I'd rather narrow down a bloated set of search results that at least nominally contains what I'm searching for than have to browse the entire fucking archive to find what I want because all we get are a rating and two characters.>>156141694The problem will always, always be that trying to maintain some "standard" of tags, even with two sets like this, will result in some sort of imposition somewhere. The only thing a reader set will do is introduce a second bloated list of tags. When there's not a problem, I actually think it'd probably work better, because tags are primarily for the reader and so it makes sense that readers would, when they're being civic minded, be better at picking out what other readers want to search for. But you can no more trust the readers to tag appropriately than you can the authors and you will get some set of brigands thinking they're cute and suddenly we're back to 50 character tags clouds.What some people want is a curated set of tags imposed by the site owner, but that's just gonna move the problem up the chain and now you have the authors, and some readers, warring on management. The point of a place like AO3 is to just be the archive. Any hint of politicization, in the general meaning of the term, inside the hosting of the works themselves will cause fractures. It's inevitable, really, on internet sites, but it will assuredly come sooner if they need to be making executive decisions on what tags can exist and who can use themFree for all is its own hell, but it has the least potential for drama and is the most manageable on the user end.
>>156141836Are you one of those spergs who can only think in extremes?
