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⌈ Secret Post #6020 ⌋

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09. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]

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Just curious what fic tags is an instant 'hell NO' and/or permanently on your exclude filter?

Inflation... which isn't something that I thought that I would ever have to think about until I got to my current fandom.

Also cannibalism.

/reader
Hanahaki
Sorry but non canon trans!character tags

Underage.

I mostly don't need to filter it out as it rarely shows up in my fandoms as they're about adult characters, but every now and then a fic or two will pop up and I'll just do a quick exclude in the tags I search to catch any more that might turn up.

Re: Least Favorite AO3 tag when searching fanfics?

(Anonymous) - 2023-06-30 20:46 (UTC) - Expand

So-and-so is autistic.

Not because I have an issue with autism rep or autistic headcanons, but because I have never read one (before I started avoiding it) that wasn't chock full of stereotypes and bad writing.

Not a huge fan of non-canon trans!character for a few of the same reasons and also because it seems to be the modern version of 'gender swap so the pairing isn't gay' which makes me side eye the writers.

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Urination and incest. Nothing wrong with either of them, just huge squicks for me personally.

M-Preg is the main one. In all variations, so my taglist usually includes mpreg, impregnation, pregnancy, oviposition and many more.
Omegaverse and related tags
Trans!anyone
"(male character)has a vagina"
Cannibalism
Necrophilia
Scat
Urination etc.

There's tons of tags I wouldn't click on but that are rare enough that I don't bother to filter for them.

Meanwhile I've perma-filtered "xReader" and my NoTPs/beloathed characters. Everything else might be acceptable even if I don't usually enjoy it like certain AU concepts or altering a character's identity in a way I'm not specifically looking for.

I'm deeply blessed to be in fandoms that match my tastes I guess.

When the wall of tags is so long it is almost a fic in itself. Also AU High school or AU Normal.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 05:14 (UTC) - Expand

For general stuff just these two:

/reader
POV second person

The rest are all pairings or character types, like "Tony Stark-centric".

Mpreg, rape/non-con, and /reader are the immediate and ultimate 'hell no'.

Reader. Or Y/N. Or You. Any variation of that.

Ranty preachy tags honestly. Just . Ughh. Stuff like "if you ship x dni". Or "if you read this in a shippy way I'll kill you" or "x Character is the worst and needs to die"

It's not your soapbox is just a way to content label your fic

Also using "Dead Dove Do Not Eat" for something like a 2 year age gap between adults . The whole damn purpose of that tag is to quarantine the dark shit. You say we don't warn/shove dark stuff in your face?

Dead Dove is literally the warning. And often comes with other tags and often is a way to say "we mean those tags this is gonna be dark". Don't water it down if you're serious about protecting people/minors.

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dani_phantasma - 2023-07-01 01:22 (UTC) - Expand

NOT A/B eww, transexual A, pansexual A, any sexuality tags really, POC side characters, Dead Dove (I like some dark themes but Dove tag is way too crazy), drabble collection, Reader, You, imagine, established relationship, reading/watching the canon. Those are the tags that get a pass from me.

I have seen fics tagged with 'ooc' and like... what even is the point, then, if you yourself acknowledge these aren't the characters I want to read about, just strangers with their names?

The only one I tend to filter out is my notp-- I don't even want to see it, and it shows up a lot as a side ship for one of my OTPs for some reason (they're NOT sets of characters who interact, I'm not saying 'for some reason' to shade the ship I hate, like it's just that I understand, say, why if you read steddie you get side ronance, that's four characters who spend a chunk of time together, I don't understand why I'm looking for A/B and getting vast amounts of C/D, when A hasn't met either, B hasn't spoken two words to C or laid eyes on D... and I don't see what they would have in common unless you remove D's entire canon personality, which seems popular anyway so what do I know)

There are tags I avoid even though I don't normally filter them out, though-- if it says 'Mafia AU', I'm not reading it, if it's a high school AU then if I'm DESPERATE and it contains a thing I really like but can't find much of, I might. If it's like... a dark/evil take on a heroic character, I'm probably not reading it.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 14:55 (UTC) - Expand

I pretty much only look at ship tags so that filters out 90% of x/Reader and similar. Anything that mentions AI is also a no. Aside from that I often go no thanks based on the sheer number of tags, or the summary looking unappealing, or whatever.

And there are popular fanon AU things in my current fandom that I mostly avoid; they don't automatically mean the fic is badly written, I just don't like them.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 14:58 (UTC) - Expand

OCxcanon character tags of any kind. Also second person or any tags related to that.

[Character Name] is a little shit

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Trans characters that aren't in canon
Gender swaps
Autistic characters who aren't in canon
Rape/non-con
Character/reader
OCs because I've never seen one who wasn't clearly an author insert and horribly written

Possibly more but those are the main ones.

ABO and omegaverse
Usually noncon/dubcon/trans!hc

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 01:24 (UTC) - Expand

I can't think of any that I actually see often enough in anything I seek out that makes me instantly nope out.

It does bewilder me when people tag fic with the pronouns they're using for the character. I guess it strikes me like the trans headcanon thing, except most often in one of my fandoms I see it with a canonically genderfluid character - so it comes off like they want to show off how inclusive they're being, but "trans headcanon" would be pointless since it's ACTUAL CANON. But then other times people just do things like "she/her pronouns for X" when X in canon has never shown any suggestion of being anything other than a man, or wanting to be anything other than a man, and while "trans headcanon" makes sense to me because hey it's headcanon and people headcanon all kinds of things... just switching pronouns and tagging THAT seems odd.

I normally filter out

-walls of tags.
-Coffee Shop AUs in particular, but really all AUs that involve characters being stripped of their more-than-ordinary traits.
-stories that indicate they're drastically changing a central character: if I'm searching their name, them-but-female, them-but-mentally-ill, them-but-a-five-star-chef, them-but-with-a-kangaroo's-genitalia, etc., are probably nopes.
-crossovers.
-tag clusters that indicate navigating bureaucracy will be a major plot point.
-curtainfic, slow burn (especially the sort with auxiliary tags indicating you might die of old age before the author has the characters do something entirely tame), and kidfic.

... oh, and forced pregnancy. I like many dark tropes and I'll try reading almost anything, but that one seems to have had all the interesting parts washed out and become a magnet for random writers with anxiety and no clue about human physiology.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 17:18 (UTC) - Expand

Dead Dove and all the dark tags that fall under that umbrella, age play, age regression, Littles, feminization, trans!character A, autistic!character A, asexual!character A, polyamoury, unhappy ending, most racebends and genderswaps, anything involving self-insert or /reader, Mafia AU, serial kill AU, hurt/no comfort, SIM!Tony (MCU specific), "not Ron and Hermione friendly" (HP specific).

Also, anything where the tags suggest my OTP is not endgame.

I also tend to skip most AUs for my current main OTP. However, I've had other OTPs I loved reading AUs for. It depends on the pairing.

There are very few for me that are an instant hell no, because I can be persuaded if a concept sounds good from the summary and/or I trust the writer to do it well.

Extreme Underage is one that I will not read, full stop, grouped in with anything shota/loli etc. Sometimes a fic tagged Underage can be good, I've got a couple of favourites tagged that which are more about "recovery from terrible events" and are non-graphic, but when you add "extreme" it's usually just a full-body flinch away.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-01 15:03 (UTC) - Expand

Dead Dove is up there.

I have no complaints about the tag! It's just I do not like reading that kind of content, and I really appreciate the people who take the time to signal it. (Godspeed, dark-ficcers.)

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