In which I unwisely sort of made a thing
This wasn't any of the things I was supposed to be doing today, and now my brain is eaten by the effort (I'll return later to catch up with everyone, reply to comments etc.) But, anyway, I was really taken by this Avengers poem in AO3 free-form tags and, um, may just have ended up doing a similar thing for Doctor Who. I don't think I could go so
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First, there are the standard "character", "pairing", "rating", "warnings", and you can choose to put in only those - or not even those if you care to. Standard tags are carefully organized behind the scenes so that you can click on, say, "Two/Jamie" and get all the fic tagged "Two/Jamie" AND "Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon" AND "Jamie/Second" and whatever other permutations people tagged the pairing with.
Second, there is a slot for "Freeform Tags (Optional)". If you want to tag a fic "Women Being Awesome" or "I was drunk okay" or "X doesn't know it's a threesome yet"... that's where you do that. Instead of saying it all in the fic summary or author notes. Some freeform tags, like "Women Being Awesome", are now trackable like the standard tags because enough people used them.
So the freeform tags don't actually get in the way or mess anything up! They just add a bit of delightfulness to the "see a random section of the tag cloud here" page, and allow for writing odd little pieces of found poetry like this one. :D
(I'm very fond of the AO3. It's the world's first online fanfic archive where the servers are actually owned by a fannish nonprofit organization, rather than rented or hosted by non-fans.)
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