Pack Emissaries

Welcome! This blog is run by tagwranglers on Archive of Our Own, tasked with organizing the Teen Wolf fandom tags. This blog was created to foster and maintain a closer, mutually beneficial relationship with the fandom at large, and to be a place you can come to with your questions or concerns. Please read the About page to find out more!

[teenwolfwrangling]

Hi there! I have a little problem. I found a few stories tagged as "doesn't believe Derek exists" over in The Sterek Library, and I CRAVE those, they are so brilliant. There aren't any more tagged over there though, and I am honestly at a loss as to how to find more of them. How would I even search for them on AO3? Any ideas? Thanks a lot for existing so that I can ask you in the first place ^^

Hey!! First of all, sorry it’s taken so long to reply! At first I thought you meant “Derek was taken by the Ghost Riders”, but then I figured (I think - I hope) that you meant “Derek/Stiles are together but none of Stiles’ friends believe this ~Derek guy exists”, which is also a trope I looooove. And then I was super busy preparing for a trip I’m taking tomorrow. :P But now my bags are packed and I got nothing but time so let’s see. *cracks knuckles*

Searching...

I checked out all of the Sterek Library fics in that tag and unfortunately, those works on AO3 don’t each tag for that concept in a way that I could group them together to be a canonical (a tag you can find in the filters). :( The best they seem to be tagged with is 

Alternate Universe - College/University

Established Relationship

Secret Relationship

Which are super broad categories so not super helpful /o\

I tried running a search for other terms related but no dice - the only things I uncovered were 2 private bookmarks:

People don't believe Derek exists

ppl think Derek doesn't exist

We can’t see the works related because of their being private, but they do have a wording we can work with! 

Making a New AO3 Tag

The rules for creating new canonicals (filter tags) are that we need 3 unique uses, which means 3 different works by 3 different users.

So if enough authors (3 specifically) are willing to add a broad-ish/unambiguous tag like the following to their work, then we could make it filterable!

People Don’t Believe Stiles’ Boyfriend Derek is Real*

*I would say “Real” instead of “Exists” so we can group the fics where people believe Stiles does have a boyfriend but not that he’s that hot/awesome :P

The tag can be added to any work (old or new) and it can be an author’s tag or a bookmark tag by another user, so long as the latter isn’t Private. 

Sorry again for the delay in getting back to you, and sorry I couldn’t be of more help but I’m a huge fan of this concept myself so hopefully we get some works tagged with it soon! ^_^

[teenwolfwrangling]

General PSA

Hey Teen Wolf Pack, this account’s been kind of quiet for a while as our team has evolved (sorry, can’t help it, still laughing about that). Anyway, just wanted to let you know of some general happenings on the archive. A pretty big wrangling guideline has been tweaked and as a result, you’re going to see a lot more Freeform/Additional Tags that have full names instead of just the first or last name.

For example, instead of BAMF Sheriff, you’ll see BAMF Sheriff Stilinski. Sometimes, both the single-name tag and full-name tags will exist at the same time, but you’ll see more works being housed at the full-name tag when possible. This will happen in all cases where the single-name tag has been used only in one fandom, otherwise the single-name tag will remain where it is.

Overall, this is a great move for both wranglers and users because it means less tags accidentally being used in other fandoms and then creating a mess we have to untangle. 

For the readers, this doesn’t change much except that you may see an influx of works at the full name level (the number of works at the single name level will not change). If looking for the greatest number of works, however, I still recommend to filter using the single-name tag if there is one.

For the creators, this also doesn’t change anything, but if you wanted to make a wrangler/reader’s life easier, you could try your best to always submit full name tags (e.g., “Liam Dunbar is a BAMF” instead of “Liam is a BAMF” - Teen Wolf and One Direction fans will both thank you on this one <3)

This will be a slowish transition as we have so many tags and so few wranglers on the team currently, but please bear with us, we’re working as hard as we can!

Hit the Ask button if you have any questions!

[teenwolfwrangling]

Hi! I've been trying to find sterek fics where they're in a relationship but the pack doesn't know or they think the pack doesn't know. What tags would you suggest I use to search for it?

Hey there! My first instinct is to recommend the following two tags:

The Pack Doesn’t Know (works + bookmarks, filtered for Sterek) Scott Doesn’t Know (works + bookmarks, filtered for Sterek)

But in total that only brings about 12 works + 1 additional bookmark, and they may not all be about Sterek being in a secret relationship.

I got 15 works on Oblivious Pack when filtered for Sterek, but again their obliviousness may be about something other than Sterek:

Oblivious Pack (filtered for Sterek)

And I got 9 hits on this tag but that may not be what you’re looking for:

The Pack Finds Out (filtered for Sterek) 

When I ran a tag search, I found this tag that only has 2 uses on it so won’t be available to filter on yet, but you can still read the works:

secret sterek

That seems to be it for Teen Wolf-specific tags but this may be of help too:

Secret Relationship (filtered for Sterek)*

*This will likely be a mixed bag, given that the secret relationships don’t have to be about Sterek to show up on this filter combination.

Unfortunately those are all the tags we have thus far that could help. Hopefully if more people tag for it, either as bookmarks or works, we’ll be able to make a filterable tag for you in the future!

P.S. If anyone would like a tag of this sort to be available on AO3, please tag for it specifically! E.g. The Pack Doesn’t Know About Derek/Stiles. We already have one similar tag: Sheriff Stilinski Finds Out About Derek/Stiles Relationship so feel free to model after that!

[transformativeworks]

AO3 (and other projects) will keep running as usual. Learn more in this update from the OTW Board members-elect: http://bit.ly/1T2to24

[ladyoscar23]

I’ve put a lot of the last three years of my life into the OTW, and AO3 in particular.  If it were in any danger, I’d be the first person to panic!  We’re fine, everyone has been wonderfully supportive, the bills are being and will be paid, and we’ll sort things out as soon as we can.

[otwelections-unofficial]

There have been a lot of changes in the OTW in the past few days. The current Board of Directors has resigned, effective December 15. We know there has been some confusion, and we wanted to share with you the situation as it currently stands:

The OTW and its projects, including the Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, and Transformative Works and Cultures, are operating normally. Our volunteers are still carrying out their work and will continue to do so throughout this process. Rest assured that everyone’s first priority is to keep the projects and the organization running smoothly.

We, Matty Bowers and Atiya Hakeem, new Board members elected earlier this month, will take office on December 1st. We should have access to all the tools and information available well before the 15th.

We have a long list of things we know need to be worked on, compiled from internal and external feedback, and our own plans for the Org. We will rely on this to prioritize and start taking action.

We are committed to publishing a budget for 2016 as soon as possible. An essential part of this process will be to make a draft and then seek OTW teams’ feedback on the chosen items. This may not end up happening until early 2016, depending on the status of the current draft. We’ll know more come December 1st, when we receive access to the draft.

We hear everyone’s questions about the next election cycle and what happens to the vacant seats on the Board. We will do our best to have information about that out as soon as we can; we can’t officially make decisions or announcements until December.

Please remember that this is a work in progress! There is a lot of information to be gathered, and a lot of work ahead. There has been a great deal of internal and external support for this fresh start and we are grateful to everyone who has reached out and offered to help. We’re currently working to organize our information and resources so we can move ahead as soon as possible.

Thanks for your support, and for the vote of confidence.

—Matty and Atiya (Lady Oscar) Board members-elect

[astolat]

I know this is a dull, don’t-panic kind of post, but please do consider sharing this to counter the unnecessary alarm if you’ve seen people on your dash worrying about how they have to “save all their stuff” off the AO3 and that it’s going to all collapse. 

(If you DO want copies of your stories for any reason at any time, though, I do mention that you can download them easily as nice clean HTML whenever you want, using the download link on each work.)

[teenwolfwrangling]

Hey guys, if you’ve seen any “omg AO3 is burning to the grooooooound” type posts on Tumblr lately, please know that this is in fact not the case. Our top-level board is going through some flux at the moment (and this will even out soon enough) but all of AO3′s staff, volunteers, and processes are still in place and chugging along as per usual. So fic on, fandom!

[sterek-exchange]

Are you interested in an exchange that is exclusively Sterek related? Then come check out The Sterek Exchange! 

Sign-ups begin December 13th and run through January 11th. Assignments are due February 7th and posting/fic reveals begin on February 14th!

You can find our FAQs here and RULES here.

If you have any questions, please stop by and send us an ask.

[teenwolfwrangling]

Hey guys, new Sterek exchange going on, check it out! 

As a reminder: we’re happy to promote any exchange or challenge at least partially hosted on AO3 (give us dem tags!) - our submission box is open!

[findyourspine]

If you’re an Organization for Transformative Works member (AKA if you donated between Oct 6 2014 and Oct 6 2015), don’t forget to vote for our new board of directors! 

Elections are open November 6th to November 9th, 2015 at 11:59PM UTC (what time is that for me?). 

A rundown of easy to read info about the election and candidates

A great infographic on how the voting system works 

The official election website

[teenwolfwrangling]

Hey fandom, here’s your reminder to vote this weekend if you’re eligible! It’s one of the most important things you can do for AO3!

[teenwolffallharvest-blog]

Teen Wolf Fall Harvest Sign ups are still open. Get yours in before Sept 6! All pairings welcome. 

If you haven’t signed up yet: head over to our AO3 Collection, and complete the Sign up Form.

If you’ve already signed up: A reminder that you can continue to edit your sign ups until the 6th. The more prompts and pairings you include in your request, the easier it will be to match you, and the more inspired your gifter will be when they receive their assignment. So please keep adding stuff.

What is this Fall Harvest thing all about?

[teenwolfwrangling]

Call for Affiliates!

hi all! tabs, your friendly neighborhood wrangler here. i’m currently in the process of revamping our affiliates list over here at teenwolfwrangling​ and am hoping for some new additions. :D

things i’m looking for:

ao3feed- blogs i’ve got all the ones on the masterlist and a few new ones that i know about, but if you know of any others send them my way

rec blogs do you or someone you know run a fic/art rec blog?

finder blogs help us help you find fics!

fest and exchange blogs all teen wolf and multi-fandom bangs, exchanges, and other fests are welcome, and that includes ones run through livejournal!

other fandom wranglers let’s share the wrangling love, okay?

as always, signal boosting is appreciated ♥

[harryspotter]

Teen Wolf Ship Generator

Unsure what to make? Let the Teen Wolf Ship Generator help you out! It’ll generate a ship based on the options you select. 

Current Options:

Ship Type: Femslash, Het, Slash or Random Ship Size: Up to OT5! Age: Limit to Adult, Teen or None PoC: Limit results to PoC characters only Status: Limit to mains, major recurring, minor recurring or obscure characters. Villains: Include villains in results, exclude them or limit to villain only ships. Incest toggle: Filters out incest. (Experimental, see FAQ for details)

Play with it HERE!

[cassiefisherdrake]

AO3 PSA

this is your psa to NOT USE AO3 TAGS the same way you would use tags on tumblr! AO3 goes through a lot of effort to create and track tags, whereas tumblr is freeflow and blog-respective. please only use AO3 tags that have story relevancy, NOT AS PERSONAL TAGS.

list of good example tags:

Alternate Universe

Alternate Universe - Canon divergent

slow burn

list of bad example tags:

apparently [X] was already a tag

I don’t know what else to tag this as lol

you know what I mean

[hekahte]

#this is something that is very work-heavy for ao3 mods please don’t do this

[ao3org]

Reminder: Any AO3 apps you might find in your app store of choice are unofficial and not supported by us.

The Archive does not currently have a standalone mobile app available for download in any app store. If a third-party app or website requests your AO3 login information, please proceed cautiously and be aware that you are doing so at your own risk. While there are no known security issues at this time, you should always change your password if for any reason you believe your account may have been compromised.

All current information regarding AO3 and mobile apps is available in our app tag.

[centrumlumina]

Summer is here again, so it’s time for the 2015 AO3 Ship Stats!

This list shows the 100 most popular relationship tags on the fanworks site Archive Of Our Own. There are 65 M/M pairings, 25 F/M, 4 F/F, 4 Gen, and 2 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic relationships (Gen), while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic pairings.)

Of the 200 names on the list, 33 belong to women and 2 to characters of ambiguous gender - up from 29 women this time last year. 24 of the 200 names are POC, while 12 are characters of ambiguous race, up from 11 POC and 14 ambiguous in 2014.

Please see the FAQ post for more information and a text-only version of the data.

ETA: Fixed race category for Skye/Daisy Johnson.

[themegatrontrail-deactivated201]

how not to use AO3: the definitive image

[teenwolfwrangling]

seriously, y’all, please don’t do this. please. it makes your wranglers cry.

[teenwolfwrangling]

New tags - Peter Edition!

The archive may or may not still be down when you see this (don’t worry - scheduled maintenance!) but when it’s up, these are the new tags you’ll be able to check out and use! It was a surprisingly good haul for Peter this go-around.

Peter

Caring Peter Hale Deaf Peter > Deaf Peter Hale Deputy Peter > Deputy Peter Hale Lawyer Peter > Lawyer Peter Hale Single Parent Peter Student Peter Thief Peter Werewolf Peter Hale

Others

Model Allison > Model Allison Argent

BAMF Braeden

Wolf Boyd

Horny Isaac

Insecure Scott > Insecure Scott McCall

Married Stiles Stilinski Multilingual Stiles Stilinski

Relationships

Stiles Stilinski & Malia Tate Friendship Isaac Lahey & Lydia Martin Friendship Scott McCall/Stiles Stilinski Smut

Challenges

Sciles Big Bang 2015 Scira Week Steter Week 2.0 Stydia Month

[teenwolfwrangling]

Things I didn’t know I needed, Take 2:

How has this not been a thing the whole time?? With all the parallels fandom has found between them, they’re DESTINED to be AU-Twins!

[teenwolfwrangling]

s05e03 Dreamcatchers

Hey pack, just a reminder that there is already a tag up and running and ready for your episode-related fiction needs!

Episode: s05e03 Dreamcatchers

It’s especially important to use this tag for this episode since “dreamcatchers” is a very common term and it will be hard for readers to find fic about this episode later on! Do yourselves a favour and use the canonical!

[teenwolfwrangling]

Things I didn’t know I needed: