31 flavors and one question
Jan. 3rd, 2019 01:19 pmI was reminded of this wonderful story yesterday, and it seemed like a great chance to make a rec for it in my 31 flavors meme:
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destina (Tombstone, 4120 words)
Summary: Wyatt had told himself more than once that what he felt for Doc was friendship, pure and simple. Looking at him there, naked as a jaybird, he stopped pretending either of those conditions was true.
This was a marvelous Doc/Wyatt story where the voices and the language sounded so much like the movie, it feels as though it's a missing scene.
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Question: how can you get a tag made canonical on AO3? One of the things that makes me insane on that site is the way it overrides your tags, with absolutely no rhyme or reason I can discern. Like, you type in title case (every word with a capital letter), and it just overrides that and makes it all lowercase, because it's not a canonical tag and it just thinks it should do whatever it wants. This infurates me because my job is basically making things consistent and logical in text, and this is inconsistent (sometimes it doesn't override! just apparently when it feels like it!) and illogical and I resent it when I try again and again to get all my tags into the same case, but it won't let me.
I used a tag in Yuletide that has over 150 uses, yet is not, for some reason, a canonical tag, which at least would have allowed me to keep it in the same case. It seems like if something's used that many times, in exactly the same way, it should be canonical, right? So is there a way to make my borderline compulsion actually legit? It seems like support is for problems, and this isn't technically a problem, it's just an irritating issue.
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destina (Tombstone, 4120 words)Summary: Wyatt had told himself more than once that what he felt for Doc was friendship, pure and simple. Looking at him there, naked as a jaybird, he stopped pretending either of those conditions was true.
This was a marvelous Doc/Wyatt story where the voices and the language sounded so much like the movie, it feels as though it's a missing scene.
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Question: how can you get a tag made canonical on AO3? One of the things that makes me insane on that site is the way it overrides your tags, with absolutely no rhyme or reason I can discern. Like, you type in title case (every word with a capital letter), and it just overrides that and makes it all lowercase, because it's not a canonical tag and it just thinks it should do whatever it wants. This infurates me because my job is basically making things consistent and logical in text, and this is inconsistent (sometimes it doesn't override! just apparently when it feels like it!) and illogical and I resent it when I try again and again to get all my tags into the same case, but it won't let me.
I used a tag in Yuletide that has over 150 uses, yet is not, for some reason, a canonical tag, which at least would have allowed me to keep it in the same case. It seems like if something's used that many times, in exactly the same way, it should be canonical, right? So is there a way to make my borderline compulsion actually legit? It seems like support is for problems, and this isn't technically a problem, it's just an irritating issue.
