December Daily: AO3 tags

Starting the month with a bang courtesy of jesse_the_k - Top five AO3 tags

(Already I can see that these entries are going to be "and these are my top five tonight.")

5. I almost didn't put this in because it seems so obvious, but what could be better than First Time? I checked the tag page and found some funny ones that I hope are puns rather than typos, like Firs Time and First Tim and of course Fist Time.*

4. Author's Favorite. I love it when authors show me around their living room and point at the pillows that they really like.

3. I am embarrassed to admit how much I like Just The Tip. I think it's partly the way it implies a greedy and inexperienced teenage attitude that I like, and partly (and somewhat contradicting the first point) the way it implies some explicit or implicit discussion, negotiation, boundary-drawing, "I really want to have sex with you so now we have to figure out how."

2. Sort Of. Usually appended to something that some people want to avoid - say, Dubious Consent or Tentacle Sex - it suggests a writer who's willing to give you the tools to curate your experience but is also vibrating with the desire to explain to you that it's not that simple!

1. Pining While Fucking, because most of the time that's everything I want to read.

*editing to add that I mentioned this to the kidlet and said,"I guess in the Batverse you could have a First Tim," and they said, "Magnus Archives, but nothing else I can think of," and then we agreed that Romanceable Tims would be a great name for a band.


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December Daily: Characters who need to talk

destina - Top five pairs of characters, cross-fandoms as needed, that need to sit down and have a conversation and share life experiences so that at least one of them can benefit from it.

This was so much fun.

5. Benton Fraser would really benefit from a few long conversations with Guinan in Ten Forward. Possibly he'd need Worf to spar with him for a bit to weaken him enough that he'd say anything that needed saying.

4. Actually I'd also like to see Fraser work with Sam Vimes for a bit. Fraser's stubborn, principled, and out of step with the values of the world around him, but he can distract you from it with a frictionless surface made of pleasantness and pedantry; Vimes is stubborn, principled, and out of step with the values of the world around you, and he'd spit in the eyes of the gods if they weren't too cowardly to take physical form and fight him. It would be fun to watch. (Also it would take Vimes a minute to figure out that he wasn't dealing with someone like Carrot -- that there was sarcasm under all that courtesy.)

3. Can you imagine Rodney McKay let loose with Q from Skyfall? Yeah, we made something blow up somewhere in the galaxy but it will probably be awhile before humanity discovers whatever it was, so we're fine.

2. I wish that instead of falling in with the Mayor, Faith Lehane had apprenticed with Granny Weatherwax.

1. Batman needs to sit John Winchester down and teach him a thing or two about being a father. Maybe he could have a talk with Bob Fraser, too.


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