Pack Emissaries

Hey!! First of all, sorry it’s taken so long to reply! At first I thought you meant “Derek was taken by the Ghost Riders”, but then I figured (I think - I hope) that you meant “Derek/Stiles are together but none of Stiles’ friends believe this ~Derek guy exists”, which is also a trope I looooove. And then I was super busy preparing for a trip I’m taking tomorrow. :P But now my bags are packed and I got nothing but time so let’s see. *cracks knuckles*

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I checked out all of the Sterek Library fics in that tag and unfortunately, those works on AO3 don’t each tag for that concept in a way that I could group them together to be a canonical (a tag you can find in the filters). :( The best they seem to be tagged with is 

Alternate Universe - College/University

Established Relationship

Secret Relationship

Which are super broad categories so not super helpful /o\

I tried running a search for other terms related but no dice - the only things I uncovered were 2 private bookmarks:

People don't believe Derek exists

ppl think Derek doesn't exist

We can’t see the works related because of their being private, but they do have a wording we can work with! 

Making a New AO3 Tag

The rules for creating new canonicals (filter tags) are that we need 3 unique uses, which means 3 different works by 3 different users.

So if enough authors (3 specifically) are willing to add a broad-ish/unambiguous tag like the following to their work, then we could make it filterable!

People Don’t Believe Stiles’ Boyfriend Derek is Real*

*I would say “Real” instead of “Exists” so we can group the fics where people believe Stiles does have a boyfriend but not that he’s that hot/awesome :P

The tag can be added to any work (old or new) and it can be an author’s tag or a bookmark tag by another user, so long as the latter isn’t Private. 

Hey Teen Wolf Pack, this account’s been kind of quiet for a while as our team has evolved (sorry, can’t help it, still laughing about that). Anyway, just wanted to let you know of some general happenings on the archive. A pretty big wrangling guideline has been tweaked and as a result, you’re going to see a lot more Freeform/Additional Tags that have full names instead of just the first or last name.

For example, instead of BAMF Sheriff, you’ll see BAMF Sheriff Stilinski. Sometimes, both the single-name tag and full-name tags will exist at the same time, but you’ll see more works being housed at the full-name tag when possible. This will happen in all cases where the single-name tag has been used only in one fandom, otherwise the single-name tag will remain where it is.

Overall, this is a great move for both wranglers and users because it means less tags accidentally being used in other fandoms and then creating a mess we have to untangle. 

For the readers, this doesn’t change much except that you may see an influx of works at the full name level (the number of works at the single name level will not change). If looking for the greatest number of works, however, I still recommend to filter using the single-name tag if there is one.

For the creators, this also doesn’t change anything, but if you wanted to make a wrangler/reader’s life easier, you could try your best to always submit full name tags (e.g., “Liam Dunbar is a BAMF” instead of “Liam is a BAMF” - Teen Wolf and One Direction fans will both thank you on this one <3)

This will be a slowish transition as we have so many tags and so few wranglers on the team currently, but please bear with us, we’re working as hard as we can!

Hey there! My first instinct is to recommend the following two tags:

The Pack Doesn’t Know (works + bookmarks, filtered for Sterek) Scott Doesn’t Know (works + bookmarks, filtered for Sterek)

But in total that only brings about 12 works + 1 additional bookmark, and they may not all be about Sterek being in a secret relationship.

I got 15 works on Oblivious Pack when filtered for Sterek, but again their obliviousness may be about something other than Sterek:

Oblivious Pack (filtered for Sterek)

And I got 9 hits on this tag but that may not be what you’re looking for:

The Pack Finds Out (filtered for Sterek) 

When I ran a tag search, I found this tag that only has 2 uses on it so won’t be available to filter on yet, but you can still read the works:

secret sterek

That seems to be it for Teen Wolf-specific tags but this may be of help too:

Secret Relationship (filtered for Sterek)*

*This will likely be a mixed bag, given that the secret relationships don’t have to be about Sterek to show up on this filter combination.

Unfortunately those are all the tags we have thus far that could help. Hopefully if more people tag for it, either as bookmarks or works, we’ll be able to make a filterable tag for you in the future!

hi all! tabs, your friendly neighborhood wrangler here. i’m currently in the process of revamping our affiliates list over here at teenwolfwrangling​ and am hoping for some new additions. :D

things i’m looking for:

ao3feed- blogs i’ve got all the ones on the masterlist and a few new ones that i know about, but if you know of any others send them my way

rec blogs do you or someone you know run a fic/art rec blog?

finder blogs help us help you find fics!

fest and exchange blogs all teen wolf and multi-fandom bangs, exchanges, and other fests are welcome, and that includes ones run through livejournal!

other fandom wranglers let’s share the wrangling love, okay?

The archive may or may not still be down when you see this (don’t worry - scheduled maintenance!) but when it’s up, these are the new tags you’ll be able to check out and use! It was a surprisingly good haul for Peter this go-around.

Peter

Caring Peter Hale Deaf Peter > Deaf Peter Hale Deputy Peter > Deputy Peter Hale Lawyer Peter > Lawyer Peter Hale Single Parent Peter Student Peter Thief Peter Werewolf Peter Hale

Others

Hey pack, just a reminder that there is already a tag up and running and ready for your episode-related fiction needs!

Episode: s05e03 Dreamcatchers