Gunpowder Milkshake Fandom Primer
This is an old post - you can find the updated primer here!
As the fandom is still small but growing, we on the @gunpowder-milfshake-discord thought that we would create a primer with information for new fans, so we can all use the same tags to easily share our creations and find all the fic, art, other content as well as like-minded fans we are looking for!
Tumblr Tagging
Shipnames
As tumblr doesn't have default shipname suggestions like on ao3 to group all works to one pairing together, it can be annoying having to search different versions of name/name, name x name, etc., variants of a ship to find all content for it, especially with poly ships with several characters.
To circumvent that, there are shipnames that can be used by everyone to group the content together in a single tag - we encourage everyone to tag your content with these shipnames, so it will really work and of course so your works will be seen! You can of course still tag other shipnames in addition to these, but this way all posts will be in one search tag.
Floreleine: Florence x Madeleine
ScarletMay: Scarlet x Anna May
Librarywives: Florence/Madeleine/Anna May
Killercule: F x M x S x AM
Please take note that none of the shipnames have empty spaces in-between! If you spell a tag differently, the post won't show up in the shipname tag.
Also let us know if any shipnames are missing! This is a femslash-centric blog and we might not have heard about any M/M or F/M ones, but we will add all information to this post.
Character tags
As the characters don't have last names, the abbreviation 'GM' for Gunpowder Milkshake can be put in front of each name tag:
GM Anna May
GM Emily
GM Florence
GM Madeleine
GM Nathan
GM Sam
GM Scarlet
GM Virgil
The capital letters aren't important for the tags, but please take note of the empty spaces! Without them, posts would end up in separate tags.
Ao3 tags
'Madeleine (Gunpowder Milkshake) lives' for all post-canon works with Madeleine
'[Name] Gunpowder Milkshake' for the characters
'[Name]/[Name] (Gunpowder Milkshake)' for the relationships - please use the tags Ao3 suggests to you once you start typing!
Please only use ship- and character-tags if they are a significant part of the story, not if they are only a side-pairing/very minor character! People search for the characters and ships they want to read about after all, and would be disappointed if a tag is spammed by stories in which they barely feature.
If you want to warn your readers that a minor ship or character is featured in the story, you can use the 'minor character(s)' additional tag / the 'minor or background relationship(s)' ship tag and explain in the author's note which minor characters/ships are meant, that way you will not screw with anyone's search results.
Blogs and people in the fandom
If you want to follow more people in the fandom or find fanfiction to read, there is a list of creators below the cut so it can stay updated!
