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fan_flashworks is constantly bumping up against it. So we have an ongoing tag management project to try to gain ourselves some elbow room. You might have seen our periodic posts about merging old single-use fandom tags. Unfortunately, we are coming to the end of the easily-merged fandom tags, and so need to find another way to reduce our tag use.
Today's topic: We mods have been talking about the challenge tags (c: amnesty, c: science, etc.) These tags label an entry as responding to a particular prompt (or being part of an amnesty round).
We're not sure if anyone's actually using these! So we wanted to check in with you all before deciding between A) removing them entirely, or B) leaving only the ones from the last 12 months (and only tagging amnesty posts with the amnesty tag). Option A) would make our mod lives easier, but if they are serving a purpose for some of you, we definitely want to take that into account when making our decision. :-)
If we remove the challenge tags, we will change the standard subject-line format for all rounds to "[challenge]: [fandom]: [medium]: [title]", ie, the same as the current format for amnesty rounds. Community members are welcome to go back and add the challenge to the subject lines of previous entries, too (though we know that for some of you, that would be a Herculean task!).
Please take a moment to vote in this poll.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 22
How do you use the challenge tags here?
I don't use them.
14 (63.6%)
I use them to find new-to-me fanworks for a specific prompt.
2 (9.1%)
I use them to filter out fanworks that don’t interest me.
0 (0.0%)
I use them to find specific fanworks on the community that are already familiar to me.
1 (4.5%)
I use them (in addition to my maker tag) to find my own fanworks.
5 (22.7%)
I use them some other way. (Please elaborate in the comments.)
3 (13.6%)
So that's what those tags are! I never knew!
1 (4.5%)
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Thursday: Desserts
Jul. 10th, 2025 04:21 pmToday's theme is dessert. Prompts should have anything to do with the best kinds of food, be they sweet or otherwise.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, hobbit food has caused Thorin to get pudgier since moving to the Shire to live with Bilbo
+ Any, any, fighting over whether sour or sweet gummy worms taste better
+ Any, any, just desserts
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2025 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.
While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!
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