Artist by trade.
Hello! The name's Sarah, welcome to my blog. I reblog whatever the hell I feel like, from kittens to the philosophy of life.
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I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.
I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.
I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.
Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.
When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.
I really love that mini trope in DPxDC crossovers where Danny doesn’t fight the living. And he’s just trying to explain as gently as possible to the very human heroes that humans are fragile and they get mildly offended and keep questioning him about it. Then finally he’s just like “Look, I don’t fight humans because I never learned how to hold back.”
Danny pressing his fingers together and gently trying to explain that humans are squishy and breakable
And in fact he used to be the squishiest and most breakable of the ghosts around and won his fights by a narrow margin
And could still knot a metal locker door like spaghetti
Danny: listen I never had to deal with human crime, we’ve got one whole cop in Amity Park
All Other Heroes, from major cities usually with corrupt police: ONE?!?!?
Danny: we used to have two but one of them suggested stealing from a crime scene so the other arrested him
Someone like Flash or Green Lantern insists Danny’s just fucking with them or is a kid trying to seem big and scary
Danny doesn’t even break eye contact, just reaches out, tears a strip off the watchtower floor, and eats it
The bats try and train him, first fighting Supers, then them, then off on a patrol around Gotham with bat-of-your-choice
I’m gonna say Steph is the best option for this one solely because Danny deals with human criminals exactly like a movie fifties housewife having to handle a mouse
Scream, flail, trap under bucket, carry to cops by the ankle, flinching all the way and making distressed noises
It would be the best night of Steph’s whole life and she deserves it
Fucking Riddler flailing furiously from this child’s ankle, working out he can’t break free, and that they’re like half an hour from the police station still? Oh the SULKS
Superman was created by two second-generation Jewish immigrants in the 1930s.
He was created to represent Jewish refugees, partially-assimilated immigrants, and orphan refugees. They couldn’t admit it at the time or he would never have been popular.
Whoever Little Light is they understand Superman far more than the majority of people.
Superman is the hardworking Hispanic immigrant who has developed a taste for apple pie.
The Muslim who plays baseball between prayer calls.
Every immigrant who still speaks their own language at home.
i was in the library and the lights went out and i whispered “dark academia” and only one person laughed but ive been having a bad enough week that it felt like a win so cheers
thanks everyone :’)
you’re right obviously this joke is too funny to flop like that. what really happened was i whispered “dark academia” and the girl next to me turned around and kissed me, with tongue, and everyone clapped etc etc
Bruce learns Kryptonian secretly just so one day during a JL meeting he can turn to Clark and go “hal really thought that haircut made him look good huh” with the most deadpan expression ever
