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For a break from mindlessly reposting from Tumblr, I'd like to take a moment to celebrate AO3's deeply inclusive content policy.

If you feel so inclined, please drop links to some of your favorite fanworks on AO3. They don't have to be NSFW. Any fandom, any genre, just things you enjoy.

For extra salt, I'm encouraging everyone to feel free to keep posting here through December 18. Fandom doesn't stop even if Tumblr implodes.

Found Tags

Mar. 26th, 2013 11:04 pm
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A list of bookmark tags

When I wrangle bookmark tags, I like to play “guess which work that’s attached to.” I’m pretty sure I got this whole set. Can you?
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I need to do something amusing that's not wrangling for a bit. If you put an Avengers, Merlin, or Transformers character in the comments, I'll reply with either all the canonical relationships for that character, or all the canonical freeforms for them (Avengers only for freeforms).

(Note: If you put Loki or Tony Stark in my box, I reserve the right to cut off the relationship list at 100 tags. That goes for Optimus Prime, Merlin, and Darcy too.)

Lists: Natasha and Pepper freeforms (Tumblr)
Rhodey relationships (Tumblr)
Kate Bishop relationships (LJ)
Phil Coulson freeforms (Tumblr)

To see the works for a tag, use this format: archiveofourown.org/tags/TAG NAME/works

(Make sure you leave the spaces in the tag. Replace “/” with “*s*”, “.” with “*d*”, and “&” with “*a*”.)
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(This month, I'm contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

So, this was meant to be an exercise in "Quick! Name 50 canons with black female characters off the top of my head!" It quickly devolved into 2 hours of "Omg, I knew her name, that lady in the thing with the vampires." /o\ And then a bunch of those I could name don't appear on AO3 because no one's uploaded anything with them yet. This just hammered home the reality I think we're all aware of on some level, that there simply are not enough canons with black women in prominent roles.

On the plus side, I met Micchone and a couple other ladies through Femslash February, so thank y'all!

1. Nyota Uhura [Star Trek: TOS]
2. Zoe Washburne [Firefly]
3. Gwen [Merlin BBC]
4. Ororo Munroe [Marvel, X-Men]
5. Teyla Emmagan [Stargate Atlantis]
6. Sally Donovan [Sherlock BBC]
7. Tiana [The Princess and the Frog]
8. Valerie Smith [Josie and the Pussycats]
9. Kasidy Yates [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]
10. Claudia LaSalle and Kate Masseau [Macross]
11. Martha Jones [Doctor Who]
12. Jessica Pearson [Suits]
13. Lisa Turtle [Saved by the Bell]
14. Tzipporah and the Queen [The Prince of Egypt]
15. Michonne [Walking Dead]
16. Bonnie Bennett [Vampire Diaries]
17. June Ellington [White Collar]
18. Olivia Pope [Scandal]
19. Queen Nefertiti, Cleopatra VII, and Hatshepsut [Ancient Egyptian RPF]
20. Tara Thornton [True Blood]
21. Shirley Bennett [Community]
22. Monica Dawson and Nana [Heroes]
23. Miranda Bailey [Grey's Anatomy]
24. Elaine Besbriss [due South]
25. Allison Blake [Eureka]
26. Annie Sawyer [Being Human]
27. Shana Elmsford [Jem and the Holograms]
28. Lilith Iyapo [Lilith's Brood aka Xenogenesis]
29. Lauren Olamina and Zahra Moss [Parable series] (empty Yuletide tags)
30. Anyanwu [Patternist series] (empty Yuletide tags)
31. Mercedes Jones [Glee]
32. Astrid Farnsworth [Fringe]
33. Mahandra McGinty [Wonderfalls]
34. Nasuada [Inheritance cycle aka Eragon]
35. Hilda [Eureka Seven] (you'll need to look under the generic Hilda for previous works)
36. Jessica Williams [The Daily Show]
37. Joss Carter [Person of Interest]
38. Rue [Hunger Games]
39. Jazmine Dubois [Boondocks]
40. Nadia la Arwall [Fushigi no Umi no Nadia aka Nadia of the Blue Water]
41. Amarone Slaintheav [Vandread]
42. Sherry Walken [Gungrave]
43. Celie, Shug Avery, Nettie, Corrine, et al [The Color Purple]
44. Janie Crawford, Phoeby, Janie's mother, and the female neighbors [Their Eyes Were Watching God]
45. Susie Carmichael [Rugrats]
46. Comfort Fedoke [So You Think You Can Dance]
47. Carrie Dwyer [Elementary]
48. Cassie Logan, her mother, and her grandmother [Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry]
49. Beatrice Okoh, Elewa and her mother, et al [Anthills on the Savannah]
50. Maya St. Germain [Pretty Little Liars]

(I tried to leave off characters who died in the same episode/chapter/issue they were introduced in. I may not have been 100% successful.)

Any character without a link is a character who doesn't yet have a tag on AO3. I would love for that to change. So my challenge to you is: if you have a work about any of these characters, could you please upload it there? Art, Vid/AMV, Fic, Podfic, anything. And if you've already uploaded but the tag isn't showing as canonical, holler and I'll look into it.

Who are your favorite black female characters?
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(This month, I'll be contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

So I mentioned yesterday that "Women Being Awesome" used to be in the tag cloud. It's not anymore. What happened?

The tag currently has not quite 900 works. Part of the problem is that it doesn't have many subtags, like most other tags in the cloud do. "Bonding", for example, has the subtags "Male Bonding", "Forced Bonding", and "Psychic Bond" (with its own subtags), for a total of about 1200 works. But "Women Being Awesome" has only five small subtags, all names of specific women. I estimate we'll need about 200-300 more works to get it back in the cloud.

My challenge to you is: go back and tag all your previous works that include a woman being awesome with the generic tag "Women Being Awesome" and a specific tag with her full name in it. (If more than one woman is being awesome, tag them all!) Once at least 3 users have tagged with a specific name, if the tag is in one of my fandoms, I will canonize and subtag it. If it's in another wrangler's fandom, I'll leave a note with them or the wrangling committee asking for the same.

(If a tag's ready for canonization and I don't notice, please drop me an ask.)

Let's get this tag back on the front page where it belongs!

Freeforms of the day: Awesome Darcy Lewis, Awesome Natasha Romanov, Awesome Pepper Potts, Awesome Peggy Carter, and Toph Being Awesome
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Old AO3 wranglers can learn new tricks from past experience.

A senior intelligence wrangler has created S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel TV). First one to post wins a pony gets promoted here. Because posting before canon is TRADITION.

(Note: This contest was won less than 24 hours later.)
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