How to find Theon fics where your favorite ship is the focus.
TLDR:
To filter out all other ships than your OTP, type otp:true in the search within results bar in the Sort and Filter box.
This applies to Platonic ships as well- usually tagged as Theon Greyjoy & Character Name and Poly Ships.
It’s not really a thing now, but writers could begin to tag their ships as ShipName-Centric. (Example Theonsa-Centric, Throbb-Centric, Thramsay-Centric etc.)
More details under the cut:
First, go to the search bar on the left hand side of your screen. Click on
Tags:
It will then bring you the Tag Search. Type Your Ship Name in the search box, choose the Relationship option, click Canonical, and hit Search Tags (I used Theon Greyjoy/Sansa Stark because it’s one of my faves. Canonical (I BELIEVE) is not whether it happened in canon but whether or not the characters are canon. If you uncheck the selection you will also see things like (Implied Theon Greyjoy/Sansa Stark or Past Theon Greyjoy/Sansa Stark.)
Find your relationship and click on it. It will bring you to a page that looks like this. Click on the Works option on the right hand side:
It will then bring you to a list of fics in recently updated order:
However, this list will include EVERY fic that is tagged Theon Greyjoy/Sansa Stark even if that ship is not the focus- maybe it is just a background ship or just mentioned. So in order to narrow your search, you need to find the Sort and Filter box on the right hand side:
If you are on a phone it will probably look like this screenshot below, in that case, just click on Filters:
Scroll down to the bottom of the Sort and Filter box to find the Search within results bar:
Type otp:true into that bar:
Press Sort and Filter:
It will then take you to a list of fics in recently updated order where your ship is listed but no other ships are:
This also works with polyamory ships. However, if your polyamory ship is also tagged with the two person ship, it will filter those fics out of the search results. So, for example, if you are searching under Theon Greyjoy/Jon Snow/Satin Flowers and you use the otp:true filter, it will show you the fics that have that ship listed, but it will filter out the fics that are tagged with the polyamory ship, but have also tagged the two person ships within the poly ship such as Theon Greyjoy/Jon Snow or Theon Greyjoy/Satin Flowers or Jon Snow/Satin Flowers. However, because there aren’t usually as many polyamory ships being tagged as background ships, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Hopefully you won’t have to use the otp:true filter, since searching under the polyamory ship itself should usually be enough of a filter- at least when it comes to Theon polyamory ships.
Where this might get into some trouble is with the platonic relationship tag. If you are searching for your romantic ship, the otp:true tag will also filter out any platonic ships that were tagged. So it might filter out any fics where your OTP is tagged but other popular Theon platonic ships are also tagged, such as Theon Greyjoy & Yara Greyjoy or Theon Greyjoy & Bran Stark. It also will filter out the platonic version of the ship you are searching under. So, for example, if you are searching under Theon Greyjoy/Robb Stark, the otp:true filter will filter out any fic that is also tagged with Theon Greyjoy & Robb Stark.
So in this case, I would recommend that people tag their ship in the additional tags section as ShipName-Centric. So for example, if I am writing Theonsa, I would put Theonsa-Centric.
The good thing is, the otp:true filter will absolutely work with platonic relationship tags. So if you are looking for Theon Greyjoy & Sansa Stark or Theon Greyjoy & Jon Snow for example, it will filter out everything but that relationship if you use this filter.
I hope this helped! Please send me questions if you are confused or need help! There will be more info on Theon Fic Appreciation Week coming soon!
