Oh! Outrage!

[redbrunja]

If you tagged your fic 'Steve/Darcy' AND 'pre-slash' I can fucking guarantee, you are DOING SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG.

(Do not even get me started on my hatred of the tag 'pre-slash.')

Comments

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

...WHAT? That confuses me. Might have been a typo?

All right, now I don't use 'pre-slash', since it seems just as easy to use the ship name or tag it 'slash', but why does 'pre-slash' get your ire up? Isn't it like saying "Eventual such-and-such"?

[aj.livejournal.com]

I tried looking for Tony/Pepper fic at AO3 last night.

What a fucking exercise in frustration.

Though, I'd be weirdly more okay if I saw ONE. GOD. DAMNED. STORY. that was Pepper/Someone, Tony/Pepper rather than Tony/Whoever, Tony/Pepper.

But no.

The thing that's hysterically funny? In comics, Pepper blows Tony off and he spends most of his time pining over her. *shakes head*

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Word on the pre-slash thing.

[empressearwig.livejournal.com]

I'm curious if a general pre-ship tag would bug you as much.