General reminder about & and /

[chocolateboxmod]

 Just a reminder to everyone that you will be matching on relationship tags, and relationship tags are what your author is required to write. Prompts are optional details which can be ignored and in the case where the optional details contradict the relationship tag, authors are encouraged to ignore the optional details and write the relationship in the tag instead.

Please keep this in mind when you write your prompts!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of my prompts are kind of general because the shippy stuff is in my general likes/dislikes section. I do want shippy fic, though! Should I rewrite my prompts?

[chocolateboxmod]

Not unless you want to! The situation I'm describing above is when you choose A & B and say in your optional details you ship A/B like crazy, or choose A/B and say that you want something not shippy. What you describe is fine.

[angenoir]

I have a question - I'd like to offer The Losers (2010) and Black Jewels - Anne Bishop, but there's only one relationship in the tagset, which prevents me from offering it (you have to have 2-20 offered relationships). Similarly, I can't offer in Sherlock Holmes (Downey Films) because, of the listed relationships, I believe 3 of the 5 are not actual characters/relationships in the Downey films, and of the last 2, one of them I detest entirely and would hate to be matched on it.

Do I just not - offer for these fandoms?

Thank you so much!

[chocolateboxmod]

You've described two issues here, so I will deal with those in turn. Where a fandom has only one ship in the tagset you select the "Any" checkbox. So for The Losers and Black Jewels, you tick the box and you're good! For fandoms where there is more than one ship you must choose two. For Sherlock, you might be better off treating because it's too late to move the Joan Watson ship, and even if I could you would still need to offer both ships. I'm sorry about that!

[angenoir]

ahhh, I see! Thank you so much! :D

[doyle]

I'm trying to both request and offer Silicon Valley but Jared Dunn/Richard Hendricks and Gavin Belson/Richard Hendricks aren't coming up in the list of pairings and aren't recognised even if I C&P directly from the tagset?

[chocolateboxmod]

I've just tried it now and I can add them just fine. Could I ask you to try again? If it still doesn't work, then that would be an AO3 bug and you'd have to contact their help team.

[doyle]

Yep, they're being recognised now, must have been a glitch - sorry about that! Fixed now.

[chocolateboxmod]

That's cool! AO3 is still in beta so sometimes weird glitches happen.