[ SECRET POST #2780 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2780 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Dude…it's ridiculously easy to tell when a fic is going to be slash. Just ask AO3 or fanfiction.net to filter out the slash tags. And if you're still worried about it, do a quick CTRL + F search on the fic for character names. If the female character is brought up less than the other male character then it's pretty obvious that it's slash.

I seriously don't understand why people get so mad about this. I've shipped Zuko/Mai for years and I've never had trouble finding fic even though I despise Zutara (which is overwhelmingly more popular). I just get recs from like-minded fans and use those tricks above.

Yeah, the Zutara fans will tag with Mai/Zuko just to break them up, but some people prefer to label their fics by all the content it contains so that they won't get complaints for having scenes at the beginning with the canon couple.

[(Anonymous)]

Just ask AO3 or fanfiction.net to filter out the slash tags.

Not gonna work if the fic is mistagged, is it?

I seriously don't understand why people get so mad about this.

You don't understand why someone would get mad about a fic being mistagged? You don't understand why someone would get mad that, in order to make sure that a fic they want to read actually involves the pairing it's tagged for, they have to search the thing for names and compare how often each one crops up?

Do you also not understand why Muslims get mad when people try to trick them into eating pork?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow…that comparison to Muslims -- way to make fanfic SRS business.

I honestly don't know what you mean by "Not gonna work if the fic is mistagged is it?" Writers never forget to tag the actual couple in the fic. So when I don't want a Zutara fic, I write "-Katara/Zuko" on AO3 and then on fanfiction.net, I filter Katara out. That alone will get rid of "mislabeled" fics and let me search for my Zuko and Mai fics easily.

I mean goodness, this isn't difficult -- given that Zutara is a noncanon pairing, if I see it in the title or description, I basically ALWAYS assume that it's endgame considering it's a fanon pairing. Why would you ever even open up a fic that has another non-canon pairing in the title?

And I've NEVER seen anyone tag something for JUST Mai/Zuko and then make it Zutara. Even simply because that would result in them getting a lot less hits. People always indicate the noncanon, endgame pairings.

The CTRL + F thing was just my suggestion if you need an extra way to check. But honestly? Filtering out the pairings works 99% of the time.

It just seems silly to me to accuse slashers of misconduct when a lot of people simply use the tag system as an indicator or warning of what's in the fic. Because there are people that want to know ahead of time what they can expect. They aren't doing it to be dicks but because it's important to a lot of people that they know what's coming.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot depends on the fandom and the writer, to be honest.

I don't have a horse in this particular race, but I've seen a LOT of authors tag their fics mendaciously, I assume to attract more readers. It's really despicable IMO, but I guess they're working on the same principle as spammers: higher volume = more hits/kudos/comments, even if some of the readers who were suckered in get royally pissed off.