"Wish people would use the "[character]-centric" tag more often on ao3 because it would make my life a lot easier" - a mutual said this & I'd never considered it before. Any thoughts?
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Just like with any other tag, if your friend wants people to use it, they’ll need to make people aware of it. I’d recommend they make a post (on tumblr or twitter or discord) saying that they were looking for [character]-centric fics on AO3 but that they couldn’t find many with that tag. They could then ask for recommendations.
While a tag might seem really logical to one person, it might never occur to someone else. The first time I ever wrote a fake dating fic, I didn’t realize it was a trope (or that the trope had a name) and so I didn’t tag it - until my friend told me to.
In the meantime, I recommend your friend filter their searches with that character in mind and maybe specify in the search that the character’s name appear in the summary. That might increase their luck?
What do the rest of you think?
