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[–]Rubyredpython 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This! All of this! It's so annoying that I have to put this every single time just to ensure I don't have to read about a penis. Have you ever put that in the exclusions and the number of fanfics available drops by half? It's ridiculous. This is one of the reasons I got back into writing fanfics again. At least I know I'm not sneaking any penises in the stories.

[–]DifferentAirGC 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm only interested in 1 fandom, so I just bookmark the page with the filters, no need to type them everytime.

This is one of the reasons I got back into writing fanfics again

You are doing god's work, I need to stop sitting on my ass and try to write something too.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How do you exclude tags???? I've never been able to work it out :/

[–]hermiona52[S] 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You need to find a fandom/pairing, then on your right side on a desktop you have all of the filter options. There's an 'exclude' section and you just type tags. While typing it automatically gives you suggestions.

Or like in my case, I saw so many 'girl penis' and 'magic cock' tags in fanfics that I just remembered them.

On mobile, you have 'Filters' button on top of the screen, and the rest is the same like on the computer. The screenshot I uploaded is from my phone.

[–]HelloMomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

AO3 added the exclude feature in 2018 I think?

[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Holy shit this is so real lol. Thanks for posting haha. The "alpha/omega" ones gross me out the most.

Also really sucks to read partway through a fanfic and see something like "___ was actually not lesbian but asexual/trans/has a cock/whatever" and it wasn't tagged.

[–]BraveAndStunningTERF 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]HelloMomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is why I prefer straight fanfic, honestly. There's too much overlap between gay fanfic and the gender fandom. Fandom is supposed to be a fun past time for me, I don't want to see qweer topics, Discourse, or people with flags in their avatar picture. It's just not fun.

I like straight ships with problematic leading ladies. Problematic female characters usually have only female fans, often bi women and lesbians. They're good folks: slightly world-weary, but not particular political, and with a deep fondness for poetics and metaphor. I like them; they're the people I want to do fandom with.

[–]hunther 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I stopped using Archive a couple years back but holy shit I've never had to exclude all of this shit when I was using it