I can never see fics of any pairing I want if I try looking for it, like I guess I just don’t get the tagging system

now, now, it’s not that you don’t get it, it’s that it’s shit. 

According to a friend of mine who has used the site more recently than since cat macros were new, they actually finally added the ability to tag your story as involving more than two people.

There used to be this problem that if you selected any two characters, no matter how they related to each other, people were expecting it to be a romantic pairing.  

I just don’t know how that website still functions.

Wait what? Where, I don’t remember it?

Oh, it was on LiveJournal of all places, though it started because someone linked to a discussion from Tumblr that they felt differently about.  I don’t go to LJ much (or really at all) anymore, since it’s pretty much a ghost town, but my level of fandom frustration had hit a high point, so I went trolling through the depths over there.  

I was encouraged to see the discussion happening at all, but “people think too much into things!” and ’bertie’s a BOY, of course he’s _______’ and other such comments gave me a distinct frown along with a ‘We’re not on Tumblr anymore’ vibe, no matter what my feelings on the subject.

wow you are amazing

Oh, well thank you! That’s a nice thing to say when it’s still so patchy!  It’s still really rough, though it’s definitely more recognizable now, ja?   I keep plugging at it, but the program really lags on my poor laptop now that it’s getting more complicated, so I don’t know how far I’ll be able to take it.