#bytez fics

I don't use any other site for my fics. I used to have Wattpad, I started on Wattpad in a more official sense (rather than hand-written as a little kid and sharing with my friends who wrote their own fics we all read together. which is a whole different ballpark entirely–), but I haven't had an active Wattpad account in nearly 5 years now.

Also I will never go back to Wattpad either. My early days with the platform was great imo, but the more they corporatized and paywalled a bunch of shit, the less I wanted to be there. I stopped posting frequently for awhile, and then I completely deleted my account and made a full move to AO3 eventually.

All in all, if I haven't mentioned an account somewhere, chances are I either never had it, or no longer have it as I purged a lot of shit around the same time. I saw a few fandoms I'm in mention that fics in said fandoms were being reuploaded to Wattpad, and while I don't really give a shit on tracking all it down anyway, I do hope people who read them know where to find me officially, if that makes sense? Chances are, zero credits given if I'm even affected, but still. I don't give a shit, just gently guide people to the actual creators rather than attack the poster, methinks. Chances are (especially with Wattpad's reader age-range from what I knew), that's a kid getting bashed for posting something they probably loved reading themself. Yes, it's "wrong", but there are worse issues online than someone reuploading a fic elsewhere to get more eyes on it I think.

Please, just.... Don't skip over tags?? They're there for a reason, even for something as minor as thinking one guy was a whole other guy with the same first name (<- what someone commented to me a few days ago????).

I get it's hard to track characters of MCYT by first name alone, but there shouldn't have been a confusion of Joey, who was posted under "Taurtis" with the additional tags of "Taurtis is Joeyish" and "Joey | Joeyish is Taurtis" in the same string of tags (before his tags were updated from "Taurtis (Video Blogging RPF)" to "Joeyish | Taurtis" btw, which is WHY I made the tags to say so)

Confused with who, you may ask? Joey Graceffa???? Of which, mind you, him and/or any form of his content isn't tagged anywhere? "I thought I missed something from Empires..." If I included more straightforward content from Empires SMP besides a few nicknames and titles, I would've included Empires in the fandom tags. I am so serious. The only reason YHS is tagged is because Reborn as a whole series digs into the (character) pasts of Grian and Joey while connecting it to current day character lore (and bringing Joey into said current day lore), which also means YHS is a critical part of that.

Anyways. All in all... AO3 tags are there for a reason. Tags are your friend. Please use them. Whether you're the one posting or the one reading, it doesn't matter. Use tags to your advantage. I dunno how many times I gotta say it. I use tags for my readers, I use tags for every single thing. I tag any form of pairing, just in case. Hell, the Reborn series is tagged with "Implied Sexual Content" despite not digging too far into it besides a casual mention here and there, mostly in a joking manner. (still can't believe they've canonically— *gets dragged off the stage suddenly* /j) Why tag it then? Because not everyone is comfortable with sexual content of any form! It's there to be filtered out! Some people are fine with implied, just explicit is off the cards. THAT is why the distinction is important. THAT is why I tag it. For filtering, and so people know what they are getting into.