okay guys, I think bloodymary has gotten big enough that y'all need to consider not main-tagging the canon series anymore.
for those unaware: this has been Tumblr fandom etiquette since the old days. there's no concise line per se, but if an AU gets big enough to be cumbersome in the main tag even while blocked, it's common courtesy to stop tagging it with the canon series it's from.
if an AU is big enough to be cumbersome in a tag, it's big enough to be found by keyword searching. that, and when unrelated characters end up taking up this much space, you're far more likely to turn newcomers off to the idea of your AU. and you're more at risk of being blocked, bc it's a lot easier to block someone than to blacklist their username.
side note that this is etiquette is only aimed at fully named canon tags! so you can still tag it "#phm" and "#il" or even full character name tags.
so, please consider this at least!
Very much agreed! Some people have mentioned Simon elbowing out PHM characters in other reblogs, but speaking from the Iron Lung fan first perspective:
I love BloodyMary. I do, don't get me wrong. But Iron Lung was a small budget independent production with a limited set and staff and it's amazing that BloodyMary can give it exposure, but it's also drowning out the main tag completely. Two out of every hundred posts are pure Lung, the rest all BloodyMary. I haven't seen Ava Iron Lung in a week when she used to be a third of the posts.
I remember being in a fandom with the abbreviation tos and there were so many posts about being considerate of the people in the Star Trek the Original Series tag who were there first. We listened and came up with a new tag and everyone was happy, as far as I remember. I'd love to have that kind of respect from BloodyMary for Iron Lung. We can follow each regular tag individually, I'm just... tired of the digital noise in the main tag.
Please be considerate. We love y'all, but it's a little exhausting.
