[ SECRET POST #3654 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3654 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

Modern AUs make up almost half of all ASOIAF and GOT works on AO3 and I just don't understand. Why? And why does AO3 make it so difficult to filter out what we don't want to see? I don't want to read about characters in NYC or London who near little to no resemblance to the characters they're named for as written by people who clearly haven't been within 200 miles of either city.

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

I have that problem in a lot of fantasy or supernatural fandoms. I am watching werewolves in space because I want werewolves in space, I dont' want vaguely similar human people going to college in the usa

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[ginainthekingsroad]

Overwhelming amounts of AUs are the woooorst. Helix is my favorite tiny dead fandom, but its pitiful selection of works on AO3 is about 40% AUs. Especially college/high school and werewolf AUs.

And it kinda irks me to automatically make Inuit characters werewolves/shifters when there's nothing in the canon that ties them to wolf motifs any more than the American scientists. Bleah.

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

It makes sense to me. There is only so much you can do in actual canon. Every dies anyways. Also, do -"modern" -"alternate". That should get rid of a lot.

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[skeletal_history]

The problem with -alternate is that lots of people use "Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence" when they have changed something in-universe, (which, personally, is something I want to read), so I don't want to filter that out.

...But, of course, then you have people who use "Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence" to mean, "opened a wardrobe and stepped through into a 21st century NYC coffeeshop" (which I don't want to read because it's a modern AU and should have been tagged as such, goddammit people get it together).

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[skeletal_history]

OMG, I knooooowwww. This is my standard tag filter when I search for ASOIAF fic on AO3:

"Alternate Universe - Modern Setting" -modern -college -"high school" -coffeeshop -office

(And lately I've had to add -christmas -santa -sevenmas)

It is so hellaciously irritating when people don't tag their modern AUs at all. TAG YOUR FUCKING MODERN AUS YOU JERKS.


Really, AO3's search and filter functions are terrible. Take ratings: why do the ratings limitations use radial buttons instead of checkboxes? You can't imagine that it might be pretty common for people to want to read at every rating except one, like G or E? Or if someone wants smut, they might want to read both M and E, but not T or G? Or whatever?

Re: Weird/unusual things you noticed in your fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

+1 especially the inability to search based on rating. Never thought I'd miss FF.net.