Thank you for posting this, you've succinctly laid out some things I've been thinking about lately.
Like other posters, I like the multi category on the OTW Archive (AO3), but what good is a label if you use it where people don't know what it means? Also, as of now, the archive is not searchable by category. It's visibility only if you know to look for it.
I had to make a decision when tagging Leverage fics on Delicious, and I chose to label multi fics as Slash, Het--two separate tags. I was thinking to label the relationships depicted, not the character's identity. I'm almost thinking I should have added a multi tag, or made a single Slash+Het tag. I am going to think about that, because visibility would be damn nice. I don't like the term threesome, or moresome since it implies, or people infer, that the fic is a kinky PWP.
While I agree with other posters that labeling of fic is less common on LJ, I still see fics that warn for slash, so I think it rather depends on fandom and practices vary. But the other issue isn't labeling so much, as what comm do you post in? If your fandom has a divide between Slash and Het and never the twain, well then, where to you put your f/m/m fic?
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Date: 2009-04-17 02:06 am (UTC)Like other posters, I like the multi category on the OTW Archive (AO3), but what good is a label if you use it where people don't know what it means? Also, as of now, the archive is not searchable by category. It's visibility only if you know to look for it.
I had to make a decision when tagging Leverage fics on Delicious, and I chose to label multi fics as Slash, Het--two separate tags. I was thinking to label the relationships depicted, not the character's identity. I'm almost thinking I should have added a multi tag, or made a single Slash+Het tag. I am going to think about that, because visibility would be damn nice. I don't like the term threesome, or moresome since it implies, or people infer, that the fic is a kinky PWP.
While I agree with other posters that labeling of fic is less common on LJ, I still see fics that warn for slash, so I think it rather depends on fandom and practices vary. But the other issue isn't labeling so much, as what comm do you post in? If your fandom has a divide between Slash and Het and never the twain, well then, where to you put your f/m/m fic?