:-) They're fun. I didn't quite know how tags worked on AO3 for ages, so I haven't used them so much myself - but have just started to and will do more so. They're entertaining and often quite helpful.

Oh, and thank you for my virtual gift! ♥

Thanks! :-D

And, you know, if you ever feel inspired... Hee.

It's not actually terrifying! ^_^ The site is An Archive Of Our Own, and the site-runners very cleverly separated out TWO sorts of tags.

First, there are the standard "character", "pairing", "rating", "warnings", and you can choose to put in only those - or not even those if you care to. Standard tags are carefully organized behind the scenes so that you can click on, say, "Two/Jamie" and get all the fic tagged "Two/Jamie" AND "Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon" AND "Jamie/Second" and whatever other permutations people tagged the pairing with.

Second, there is a slot for "Freeform Tags (Optional)". If you want to tag a fic "Women Being Awesome" or "I was drunk okay" or "X doesn't know it's a threesome yet"... that's where you do that. Instead of saying it all in the fic summary or author notes. Some freeform tags, like "Women Being Awesome", are now trackable like the standard tags because enough people used them.

So the freeform tags don't actually get in the way or mess anything up! They just add a bit of delightfulness to the "see a random section of the tag cloud here" page, and allow for writing odd little pieces of found poetry like this one. :D

(I'm very fond of the AO3. It's the world's first online fanfic archive where the servers are actually owned by a fannish nonprofit organization, rather than rented or hosted by non-fans.)

Thank you!

And as justice_turtle says, those are just free-form tags not canonical (I think they're termed?) tags - so you have all the standard ones, but you have the option for additional free-form tags, which can be both amusing and helpful. It's an easy way to mark out kinks or potential triggers, challenges fics were written for etc. as viewable when browsing without cluttering up your summary. And those like "I wrote this before the film came out" and "I wrote this when I was drunk" can be helpful in their own special way, too. Some of them are added for wit and extra description. So they're quite fun, but don't worry - all the proper tags come first.

Yes, that one is particularly good. :-)

Thank you! :-) Yes, the Master's plan always backfires. The Master tags really could have had an entire poem of their own. Collectively, they were hilarious anyway. But The Delgado Master Has Standards, of course...