Comments | lost_spook: In which I unwisely sort of made a thing

lost_spook

In which I unwisely sort of made a thing

Jan 07, 2013 17:34

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 ( Read more... )

fannish scribbles, ao3, doctor who, fannish nonsense

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persiflage_1 January 7 2013, 17:45:15 UTC

I like creating freeform tags for my Bond fics - like "M Is Sexy as Hell" and "Bond Is Suave", or "Bond Is Broken But M Mends Him". Because why not...

lost_spook January 7 2013, 20:02:22 UTC

:-) They're fun. I didn't quite know how tags worked on AO3 for ages, so I haven't used them so much myself - but have just started to and will do more so. They're entertaining and often quite helpful.

Oh, and thank you for my virtual gift! ♥

persiflage_1 January 7 2013, 20:06:45 UTC

I didn't bother with freeform tags for my other fandom fics, but somehow they seem to fit Bond fic nicely.

You're welcome! :D

jjpor January 7 2013, 23:13:38 UTC

Ah, that's brilliant! :D I'm sort of seeing some of the (cracky) stories hinted at now. The unhappy Canton D. III and his posse of Who girl companions (including Ace rocking a fez)...The Doctor and Master on a road trip where the Master cooks and makes tea (and tries to bring on a zombie apocalypse, as you do)...Four kidnapping the Brig for crazy adventures in time and space (of which the Brig rapidly gets fed up)...

lost_spook January 8 2013, 17:57:07 UTC

Thanks! :-D

And, you know, if you ever feel inspired... Hee.

jjpor January 8 2013, 23:05:51 UTC

Well, you never know...

swordznsorcery January 7 2013, 23:30:05 UTC

Those are tags?! That's... splendidly unhelpful. :)

Nice work, anyway. I am now mildly afraid of the site you got the tags from, though.

justice_turtle January 8 2013, 05:44:11 UTC

It's not actually terrifying! ^_^ The site is An Archive Of Our Own, and the site-runners very cleverly separated out TWO sorts of tags ( ... )

swordznsorcery January 9 2013, 21:35:16 UTC

Your enthusiasm is wonderful. :) It's not a site that I'm very familiar with, but I'm aware that it's quite popular.

lost_spook January 8 2013, 17:59:35 UTC

Thank you!

And as justice_turtle says, those are just free-form tags not canonical (I think they're termed?) tags - so you have all the standard ones, but you have the option for additional free-form tags, which can be both amusing and helpful. It's an easy way to mark out kinks or potential triggers, challenges fics were written for etc. as viewable when browsing without cluttering up your summary. And those like "I wrote this before the film came out" and "I wrote this when I was drunk" can be helpful in their own special way, too. Some of them are added for wit and extra description. So they're quite fun, but don't worry - all the proper tags come first.

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liadtbunny January 8 2013, 16:24:44 UTC

Ah very clever and amusing! When doesn't The Master's plan backfire, it's the law!

lost_spook January 8 2013, 18:01:05 UTC

Thank you! :-) Yes, the Master's plan always backfires. The Master tags really could have had an entire poem of their own. Collectively, they were hilarious anyway. But The Delgado Master Has Standards, of course...

liadtbunny January 9 2013, 16:31:46 UTC

...which is why he's my favourite. His TARDIS in 'Colony in Space' is a shed though: filing cabinets? If only they were nice ones....