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I knew I forgot something the other day

b7 - Jenna
Apart from the things I remembered I forgot anyway...

1. Another thing from the flist: I've been following [personal profile] wrangletangle's posts about AO3 tagging, looking at femslash/female-centric tags during February (via [community profile] halfamoon). Anyway, you might like to look at this post about the Women Being Awesome tag. It's canonical and can be used to filter works helpfully and it can be improved by more people using it (where relevant) and by adding individual "x is awesome" sub-tags. Once they've been used by three users, they're canonical.

So I added quite a few people where it seemed appropriate to me for my fic on AO3. And it does seem to me that if some of you had a moment to do the same, we could quite easily improve matters and make, say, "Leela is awesome" canonical (because she is, anyway). Or Romana, Martha, Liz, Barbara etc. etc. If you're wondering, when the post was made only five women had canonical "awesome" tags and none of them were from DW. You can also see who else I tagged there, too.

But, anyway, I realise I'm strange and like thinking about tags and things and also have the time to do such low-level things at the moment.

2. Not a thing I forgot, but in rl news, I went to see an ex-colleague at the library today about volunteering soon for an hour every fortnight (doing something not too taxing, I'm a great volunteer, ha). So that's good. We'll see how it goes, but it's definitely a Step Forward. \o/ (Also, she said at the end how much she and everyone missed both of us children's librarians now we're not around to spread glitter about the place. ♥) It's also just a tad ironic, really, isn't it? Never mind.

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persiflage_1
Feb. 12th, 2013 07:11 pm (UTC)
I was vastly amused the other day when I discovered someone else using my "Sneaking Around for Sex" tag from my Bond fics on AO3.
lost_spook
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:25 pm (UTC)
So, you just need one more person to pick it up... (And a wrangler to notice.)

;-)
persiflage_1
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:36 pm (UTC)
Indeedy!! :D
ladymercury_10
Feb. 12th, 2013 07:17 pm (UTC)
Ooh, that is an interesting thing about the tagging!
lost_spook
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:25 pm (UTC)
Yes, I thought so too. It's better explained at the actual post, though. :-)
ladymercury_10
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:28 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I went and took a look it. :)
hhertzof
Feb. 12th, 2013 07:50 pm (UTC)
So you're the one who left me dozens of freeforms to sort into their appropriate categories... :P :D

Just to clarify, tags don't automatically become canonical after three uses - a wrangler has to go in and make them canonical and sometimes in large fandoms, that can be a slow process. I'm hoping to have some time to spend sorting freeforms this weekend, but we'll see.

Also, I believe we'll be recruiting again soon, if you're interested in tackling tag wrangling from the back end. ;)
lost_spook
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:24 pm (UTC)
Sorry about that.

Yes, I'm pretty sure wrangletangle explained that; I'm just paraphrasing badly, so thanks for clarifying. :-)

Rl is probably going to be v unpredictable from now on, but it's defnitely something I'd consider if things level out okay.
hhertzof
Feb. 12th, 2013 08:32 pm (UTC)
NP, you aren't the person who threw a stack of one word tags in another of my fandoms, all of which needed to be transfered to "No Fandom".

You don't necessarily have to choose popular fandoms...90% of mine are the sort where if I get one tag a month I'm surprised. And I don't advise grabbing as many fandoms as I have accumulated.
jjpor
Feb. 12th, 2013 09:15 pm (UTC)
I think that is a Step Forward - best of luck with that, and I hope things continue in that vein. It's good to be missed, I guess - better not to have the opportunity to be missed, if you know what I mean. Still, though. :)
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:43 pm (UTC)
:-)
pitry
Feb. 13th, 2013 05:52 am (UTC)
Volunteering sounds awesome (albeit yes, ironic somewhat). Go for it!
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:43 pm (UTC)
Thanks. :-)
ikel89
Feb. 13th, 2013 06:14 am (UTC)
Good luck with volunteering! Irony or no, I hope it gives you a boost.
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:43 pm (UTC)
Yes, I'm feeling quite hopeful about it. Thanks! :-)
liadtbunny
Feb. 13th, 2013 02:58 pm (UTC)
I hope the volunteering goes well and hopefully things will continue to improve.
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:45 pm (UTC)
Thank you! :-)
dimity_blue
Feb. 13th, 2013 05:08 pm (UTC)
It's great that you're feeling well enough to do a bit of volunteering! I really hope it goes well for you. ::hugs exuberantly::
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:45 pm (UTC)
Aw, thank you! ♥
paranoidangel42
Feb. 13th, 2013 07:30 pm (UTC)
That's great about the volunteering - it's a step forward that you can consider doing it to begin with.
lost_spook
Feb. 13th, 2013 08:45 pm (UTC)
It really is, isn't it? Thank you. :-)
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