There's such a huge and problematic difference between tagging "not slash" and "gen".
Also, the / & thing is so infuriating.
If your fic has characters tagged & I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO READ ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP OH MY GOD.
I'm not opposed to all sexual/romantic relationships and sometimes I totally do want to read that but I also have characters where I ship their friendship really hard and I WANT THAT TAG TOO.
Sometimes I just want to read about characters being BFFs and that is not the same thing as wanting to read about them being romantic, those are DIFFERENT.
Like, I am here for Tony Stark to be & or / with Steve Rogers and Pepper Potts but I am NOT here for that / if it's pretty much anyone else and that is a preference I think is defensible and THAT'S WHAT TAGS ARE FOR.
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Also, the / & thing is so infuriating.
If your fic has characters tagged & I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO READ ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP OH MY GOD.
I'm not opposed to all sexual/romantic relationships and sometimes I totally do want to read that but I also have characters where I ship their friendship really hard and I WANT THAT TAG TOO.
Sometimes I just want to read about characters being BFFs and that is not the same thing as wanting to read about them being romantic, those are DIFFERENT.
Like, I am here for Tony Stark to be & or / with Steve Rogers and Pepper Potts but I am NOT here for that / if it's pretty much anyone else and that is a preference I think is defensible and THAT'S WHAT TAGS ARE FOR.