It means everything

🎉✨️happy 10th anniversary to PEAK 🎉🎊

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

[id: the "How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?" section of the tagging FAQ here.]

"But Jo," you may argue, because you're wrong. "There's no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that's really inaccessible!"

sure

except

that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this

[id: the Relationships field]

and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.

I don't care if you don't know fandom history. I don't care if you've never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don't care if you've never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.

Animated another scene! Also from chapter 4 of deltarune...

an asriel and kris comic i made (they are the siblings ever)

I didn’t know anything about autism back then. I didn’t realize Entrapta was autistic.

Then all these years later, I suddenly realize. I remember why I quit my choir of like 9 years, because even the people I thought were really good friends left me behind at the zoo (we were there for a field trip type thing) while I was in the bathroom and went off with the rest of our little group with no way for me to catch up. These are people I grew up with. People I thought cared about me. Then I realize.

OH.

Then I want to drop to my knees, to grab my Entrapta doll and give her the biggest hug, to cry.

Now I realize. I was never unkind to my friends. (And I never sent giant robots to try and kill them either) But some days I was just too overwhelmed for it all. I was shy, quiet, avoidant, because I couldn’t do it all. I couldn’t be the kind of friend they wanted or needed, I couldn’t be the kind that was easy and normal to them. I wasn’t the perfect friend because I didn’t know how.

So while I wouldn’t have left a stranger behind like that, they left me like it was nothing.

I remember Entrapta. I remember not understanding why even Scorpia wouldn’t have her back, and now I know why.

Maybe having an autistic friend isn’t easy. I’m not saying there isn’t multiple sides to this.

But I understand the pain of being left out and left behind. I understand now.

Maybe they just didn’t love me the way I loved them. Maybe they didn’t even know that I did.