I have doubts that [a femslash meme] would be very long-lived

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Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

there's a lot of hetfic in the f/f tag for dragon age fics at least and a lot of them don't even have a f/f ship tagged in the first place and no it's not some f/f AU version of a het ship either

i think they do it to get in as many tags as possible but it's annoying to me because i have to scroll past so much fic in search of some femslash to read because a lot of it's just het

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

At least you can exclude by category now on AO3. I'm still holding out for primary/secondary ship categories but that might be a lost cause.

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

a secondary ship category would definitely be helpful but i foresee problems with that sort of thing too (people tagging secondary ships as primary ships, tagging primary ships as secondary ships, tagging for secondary ships that don't ever show up in the fic, etc)

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately there'd be no way to retroactively apply that change, so the millions of works already posted would just have all their existing ship tags categorized as "Primary" by default.

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

Wow that's absolutely absurd. In plenty of my fandoms I've seen people tag something as f/f and also tag a specific f/f ship that showed up for like two lines in the actual fic, but these clowns aren't even pretending.

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I thought my fandoms were bad with, both characters appeared in the fic, never interacted but I need to sink the canon het so tag it with f/f in their m/m and gen fics.

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

+2.

In my fandoms it's usually M/M (main pairing), F/F (background pairing who show up for two lines, usually to be sidekicks or yentas to the main M/M pairing). And that's fucking annoying, but this sounds even worse.

Re: wank containment area

[(Anonymous)]

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There are a bunch of these in Red vs. Blue. Usually an abandoned longfic with maybe 1-5 chapters posted and a massive tag wall including at least five ships, none of them F/F, and all the pairing categories tagged.

Honestly at this point if I see all the pairing categories tagged I don't even bother reading the rest of the tags.