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A Vague Disclaimer is 
Nobody’s Friend – Fanfiction 
Headers and Tags and their 
Changing Role in Fandom 
Joanna Kucharska, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audiovisual Arts 
Joanne.kucharska@uj.edu.pl 
@joannekucharska
The anatomy of a fanfiction header 
 Title: 
 Fandom: 
 Rating: 
 Pairing(s) 
 Warnings: 
 Summary: 
 Author’s Notes:
This isn’t your parents’ warning 
• Age rating – subjective, adopted from MPAA 
• Genre categories: emotions-based rather than 
plot-oriented 
• Warnings for endings – character death vs 
everybody lives 
• Triggers 
• Categories as warnings – don’t like, don’t read
Tags as organisation and bookmarking 
 Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, 
pinboard, etc became especially relevant 
in case of kink memes 
 Livejournal & dreamwidth tags and 
community organisation 
 Streamlined for utilitarian purposes 
 Present in fanfic archives
Hashtag’s the word 
 Rise of twitter and hashtags 
 Tool for organisation and 
marketing 
 But also a new form of meta-language, 
commenting on the 
text itself
All the feels in all the tags 
 Rise of Tumblr as a fannish space 
 Imperfections and issues of the built-in tagging system 
 Tags as metadata 
 Tags as warnings (trigger warnings, blacklisting) 
 Tags as a creative space 
 Tags as appreciation space and as a space for ‚hate’
Tags as fanwork 
 Hellekson and Busse describe 
creation of artistic fannish 
expressions as community centered, 
and engaged in constant 
manipulation, renegotiation and 
revising 
 Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in 
the Age of the Internet
o #I love a lot of things about the way this show turned out but maybe the very best one is how 
joan is a watson with limits #I don’t think I’ve ever seen an adaptation where watson doesn’t 
sigh in exasperation and then put up with the abuse #from day zero she’s laying down 
rules #and she’s patient and forgiving and remarkably low-key #(anyone who wakes me up 
before my alarm clock on the regular is getting a knife to the face) #but she absolutely knows 
the difference between eccentricity and unreasonable behavior #and is utterly able and 
willing to enforce boundaries #and to call holmes out #repeatedly. #now that I think of it I 
don’t particularly find watson interesting or likeable in… any adaptation I’ve seen? #and 
suddenly you have a holmes/watson dynamic that’s actually played as equal #where 2/3rds of 
their interaction is negotiation #(the other 1/3rd is mutual appreciation society and it’s so much 
better because of the negotiations) #real friends don’t just love you #they also challenge you 
to become a better version of yourself #that’s the show. (via smokeandsong) –on the Joan 
Watson saying „no” gifset
#sometimes i think the casting call was for a white girl because 
a woman of color raising up an army #and becoming the 
symbol of the revolution would be too close to social 
commentary they considered too radical #because we can 
rage against the patriarchy only if it’s in the future #and we can 
rage against racism only if it’s in the past #but we can’t rage 
against both #because that is too close to threatening the 
status quo of the present (via dealanexmachina) – on a fancast 
gifset of Q’orianka Kilcher as Katniss Everdeen 
#the look bones and spock share behind jim’s back like 
‘he’s gonna go do something reckless and 
stupid’ #’indeed i estimate the likelihood of such an 
event at 99.9999999%’ #[ MUTUAL SIGH ] #and then 
they’re both in the turbolift before jim even fully turns 
around #don’t look at me i feel nothing (vialeighway) – 
on a Star Trek TOS gifset
Tumblr-style tags on other platforms 
o AO3 and „Additional Tags” section 
o AO3 TOS: tags are part of the content of the 
work 
o Tag Wrangling 
o „I do think that if fanwork-creators adhered to 
AO3 rules - ie using their warning system, their 
tagging system etc etc - in addition to their tag-rambles, 
I’d be okay with it. I would just avoid 
the tags like woah, unless I wanted the writer to 
talk me out of reading their fic. ” (via glockgal) 
Fan Works are networked 
group efforts and are 
constantly reshaped through 
intra-textual output 
Paul Booth, Digital Fandom 
(2010)
destinationtoast.tumblr.com
destinationtoast.tumblr.com
via wrangletangle.tumblr.com 
http://archiveofourown.org/works/591845 
Somebody had to write this (so why not me) by 
who_la_hoop
„conversational” tags becoming canonical 
Darcy is the fandom bicycle and I love it 
Ship Darcy With All The Things 
I Believe in Jasper Sitwell 
Loki Does What He Wants 
Bruce Banner Smokes Marijuana 
Up all night to get Bucky 
Clint Barton Jumps Off Buildings 
Where Was Clint Barton During Captain 
America 2? 
Clint Barton Made a Different Call 
Natasha Romanov Is Not a Robot 
Natasha Romanov’s Arrow Necklace 
Nick Fury Knows All 
Howard Stark’s A+ Parenting 
Phil Coulson Has the Patience of a Saint 
Everyone Loves Sam Wilson 
Steve Rogers and the 21st Century 
Steve Rogers Can Wield Mjolnir 
Tony Stark Doesn’t Like Being Handed Things 
Tony Stark Has Daddy Issues 
Everyone Is Poly Because Avengers 
Darcy Lewis is Tony Stark’s Daughter 
Loki and Thor Are Not Related 
What Happened in Budapest 
Canon Divergence - No Hydra Takeover 
Jotunheim Won the War 
(via wrangletangle.tumblr.com)
#thank you 
joanne.kucharska@uj.edu.pl 
@joannekucharska

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A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend - tags and warnings

  • 1. A Vague Disclaimer is Nobody’s Friend – Fanfiction Headers and Tags and their Changing Role in Fandom Joanna Kucharska, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audiovisual Arts Joanne.kucharska@uj.edu.pl @joannekucharska
  • 2. The anatomy of a fanfiction header  Title:  Fandom:  Rating:  Pairing(s)  Warnings:  Summary:  Author’s Notes:
  • 3. This isn’t your parents’ warning • Age rating – subjective, adopted from MPAA • Genre categories: emotions-based rather than plot-oriented • Warnings for endings – character death vs everybody lives • Triggers • Categories as warnings – don’t like, don’t read
  • 4. Tags as organisation and bookmarking  Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, pinboard, etc became especially relevant in case of kink memes  Livejournal & dreamwidth tags and community organisation  Streamlined for utilitarian purposes  Present in fanfic archives
  • 5. Hashtag’s the word  Rise of twitter and hashtags  Tool for organisation and marketing  But also a new form of meta-language, commenting on the text itself
  • 6. All the feels in all the tags  Rise of Tumblr as a fannish space  Imperfections and issues of the built-in tagging system  Tags as metadata  Tags as warnings (trigger warnings, blacklisting)  Tags as a creative space  Tags as appreciation space and as a space for ‚hate’
  • 7. Tags as fanwork  Hellekson and Busse describe creation of artistic fannish expressions as community centered, and engaged in constant manipulation, renegotiation and revising  Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet
  • 8. o #I love a lot of things about the way this show turned out but maybe the very best one is how joan is a watson with limits #I don’t think I’ve ever seen an adaptation where watson doesn’t sigh in exasperation and then put up with the abuse #from day zero she’s laying down rules #and she’s patient and forgiving and remarkably low-key #(anyone who wakes me up before my alarm clock on the regular is getting a knife to the face) #but she absolutely knows the difference between eccentricity and unreasonable behavior #and is utterly able and willing to enforce boundaries #and to call holmes out #repeatedly. #now that I think of it I don’t particularly find watson interesting or likeable in… any adaptation I’ve seen? #and suddenly you have a holmes/watson dynamic that’s actually played as equal #where 2/3rds of their interaction is negotiation #(the other 1/3rd is mutual appreciation society and it’s so much better because of the negotiations) #real friends don’t just love you #they also challenge you to become a better version of yourself #that’s the show. (via smokeandsong) –on the Joan Watson saying „no” gifset
  • 9. #sometimes i think the casting call was for a white girl because a woman of color raising up an army #and becoming the symbol of the revolution would be too close to social commentary they considered too radical #because we can rage against the patriarchy only if it’s in the future #and we can rage against racism only if it’s in the past #but we can’t rage against both #because that is too close to threatening the status quo of the present (via dealanexmachina) – on a fancast gifset of Q’orianka Kilcher as Katniss Everdeen #the look bones and spock share behind jim’s back like ‘he’s gonna go do something reckless and stupid’ #’indeed i estimate the likelihood of such an event at 99.9999999%’ #[ MUTUAL SIGH ] #and then they’re both in the turbolift before jim even fully turns around #don’t look at me i feel nothing (vialeighway) – on a Star Trek TOS gifset
  • 10. Tumblr-style tags on other platforms o AO3 and „Additional Tags” section o AO3 TOS: tags are part of the content of the work o Tag Wrangling o „I do think that if fanwork-creators adhered to AO3 rules - ie using their warning system, their tagging system etc etc - in addition to their tag-rambles, I’d be okay with it. I would just avoid the tags like woah, unless I wanted the writer to talk me out of reading their fic. ” (via glockgal) Fan Works are networked group efforts and are constantly reshaped through intra-textual output Paul Booth, Digital Fandom (2010)
  • 13. via wrangletangle.tumblr.com http://archiveofourown.org/works/591845 Somebody had to write this (so why not me) by who_la_hoop
  • 14.
  • 15. „conversational” tags becoming canonical Darcy is the fandom bicycle and I love it Ship Darcy With All The Things I Believe in Jasper Sitwell Loki Does What He Wants Bruce Banner Smokes Marijuana Up all night to get Bucky Clint Barton Jumps Off Buildings Where Was Clint Barton During Captain America 2? Clint Barton Made a Different Call Natasha Romanov Is Not a Robot Natasha Romanov’s Arrow Necklace Nick Fury Knows All Howard Stark’s A+ Parenting Phil Coulson Has the Patience of a Saint Everyone Loves Sam Wilson Steve Rogers and the 21st Century Steve Rogers Can Wield Mjolnir Tony Stark Doesn’t Like Being Handed Things Tony Stark Has Daddy Issues Everyone Is Poly Because Avengers Darcy Lewis is Tony Stark’s Daughter Loki and Thor Are Not Related What Happened in Budapest Canon Divergence - No Hydra Takeover Jotunheim Won the War (via wrangletangle.tumblr.com)