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Look what I found in the Freeform mass bin today! ♥

[Image: Martha Jones is Awesome, Rimmer Being Rimmer, Charley Pollard is awesome, never come between Janeway and coffee, Kathryn Janeway is awesome, Liz Shaw is awesome, the brigadier always arrives in the nick of time, Barbara Wright is awesomer than you, Leela is awesome, Romana is awesome, Awesome Peri Brown, Awesome Servalan, Awesome Jenna Stannis, Awesome Liz Shaw, Awesome Leela, Classic Who companions are awesome, Awesome Jo Grant, Awesome Faith Lehane, Awesome Sandra Pullman, Awesome Miss Marple]

(Glossary)

When you look at a tag's landing page (reached by clicking on the tag's name while you're on the Works list), you can see that tag's subtags. Here are the subtags for Team:



(Sub tags:
*Team Building
*Team Dynamics
**Team Sex
*Team Bonding
*Team Feels
*Team as Family
**Avengers Family
*Team Fluff)

If you click on (or filter by) Team, you will get all the works tagged with any of these subtags: Team Fluff, say, or Team Bonding. However, if you click on Team Building, you won't get works tagged only with Team Feels. So if you really love every aspect of teamy goodness, you'll probably want to choose the metatag Team, rather than clicking each of the subtags separately.

The tags that are indented extra - Team Sex and Avengers Family, are subtags of the tags right above them (Team Dynamics and Team As Family).

How about in reverse? When you look at a tag's landing page, you can also see the tag's metatags. Here are the metatags for Avengers Family:




(Meta tags:
* Team as Family
**Team
**Families of Choice
***Family)

This shows that Avengers Family is a subtag of Team as Family, meaning anytime someone filters for or clicks on Team as Family, if they don't exclude Marvel fandoms, they'll get works tagged Avengers Family.

In turn, Team as Family is a subtag of both Team and Families of Choice. Works tagged with Avengers Family and Team as Family will both show up under the filters of Team and Families of Choice. And since Families of Choice is a subtag of Family, anyone filtering by (or clicking on) Family will get everything up the line - except Team, which isn't directly above it.

Next up, how metatags help consumers!

I love wrangling.

(freeforms for MCU, unfilterable, alphabetical order, current page 4)

Freeform of the Day: Feels

[Tags listed in order: after Phil's 'death', Agent Coulson had to inherit the awesome from somewhere, Agent Loki, agent of SHIELD Clint, Agent!Banner, aka Avengers go to Hogwarts, aka that one time that steve and tony got a horrible divorce, Alcoholic!Tony, alcohol is not your friend Tony, Alfheimr, alien demigod asexual mpreg, All Avengers are grown ups, all Avengers fic should include First Class, ALL MY TOM-LOKI FEELS GET DUMPED HERE, All of Coulson's Captain America feelings, All of the Avengers are mentioned at least once, all of the best Coulson kinks in one place, all of the Coulson line are secret agents, All SHIELD agents are ninjas, All the Avengers are Beautiful]

(ETA: Some of these tags are now canonicals, or synonyms of canonicals, and more unfilterable tags have been added to the bin. This is like a still photo of a reality in constant motion.)