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Reposting again because y’all don’t seem to know

PSA FOR ALL FANFIC WRITERS.

DONT 👏 TAG 👏 CHARACTERS/PEOPLE 👏 AS 👏 X/READER 👏 OR 👏 X/OC 👏 OR 👏 X/CHARACTER 👏 IF 👏 THEY 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 THE 👏 MAIN 👏 COUPLE 👏

Y'all it’s honestly so frustrating. I mean I get it, I want my work to be seen too. I’ll usually tag a few people that are present in the fic, in the tags, just to be more thorough.

But there is a fine line between tagging let’s say #Captain America and #Captain America x Reader when it’s a Tony Stark x Reader fic.

Especially since Tumblr’s tagging system is already kinda fucked, you don’t make it worse by tagging different people.

Sure, adding more people it gets your work seen in more tags, but not in the light you’d want it to. Personally, if I see a fic that has been tagged with a certain character, that isn’t the character I’m looking for, I pass right by it.

In fact, I make a point to not read it, because that’s just downright lying and frustrating as hell.

Another example, my friend and I like the YouTubers Sam and Colby, Devyn and Corey, Elton Castee and Aaron Doh. (Or the people that live/lived in the “Trap House”) While I like Colby (as does she) she also likes Aaron. So far we’ve only come across one Aaron fic, but in the Aaron Doh x Reader tag? All Colby fics. The only reason we found the one fic was because the girl posted her master list.

I’ve been encountering this since I joined Tumblr, and it’s always frustrated me to no end. So I’ve finally decided to say something about it.

JUST DONT DO IT. YOUR FIC WILL GET NOTICED.

Maybe not as much as you want it to, but that doesn’t give you a right to be disrespectful to those who do write, who aren’t getting reads because you decided your fic was more important. Thank you.

(And yes I will be tagging X Reader stories, not to be hypocritical, but because this needs to be seen by the people that are doing it) (which yes I know is also hypocritical but at least I acknowledge it)