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  • @leena6615
    @leena6615 Місяць тому +8311

    When you can tell right away that the author mixed the two of them up

    • @birchbarks550
      @birchbarks550 Місяць тому +414

      I hadn't seen the Tony stark/Peter Parker tag and when I scrolled back up after reading it I noticed it and left a comment about it (friendly of course, as it clearly wasn't a / fanfic) and the author was MORTIFIED, change it quickly and added at the top note section how they would never think ironspider is okay etc, they even apologized to me 😂

    • @SillySB
      @SillySB Місяць тому +127

      @@birchbarks550You are much luckier than me because once I had the misfortune of not understanding the tony/peter and not reading the tags 🥲

    • @gummygutshoe
      @gummygutshoe Місяць тому +65

      looking for old fanfic on ao3 is so hard bc NO ONE knew how to use a mf & tag 😭

    • @clemantineMoth
      @clemantineMoth Місяць тому +6

      Guilty 😅
      I fixed it after I found out tho lol

    • @samikay626
      @samikay626 29 днів тому +11

      ⁠@@gummygutshoe you are giving people too much credit, they still don’t know how to tag😭 don’t tag both platonic and romantic people, defeats the point!

  • @tegcat
    @tegcat Місяць тому +6971

    when you accidentally search any sibling duo with the / instead of & 😭😭 (definitely not speaking from experience)

    • @Vlint_Vorgetson
      @Vlint_Vorgetson Місяць тому +328

      YES this has happened to me way too much and I have to go scream in a pillow and avoid the urge to put bleach in my eyes just from the tags that pop up on the first fic 😅

    • @samanthasmith837
      @samanthasmith837 Місяць тому +225

      I did it once. ONCE! when I was new to ao3 and was looking up Supernatural…🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ NEVER AGAIN! It is a surprisingly large part of the fandom 😅😅

    • @user-nc5ep7xw5b
      @user-nc5ep7xw5b Місяць тому +103

      @@samanthasmith837 its so large that the first ever fic on ao3 was a fic of that nature 😭😭 (atleast thats what it seems to be from web data, it was deleted and now the 2nd first is an anderperry dps fic lol)

    • @A.dam.blue.hairbrush
      @A.dam.blue.hairbrush Місяць тому +71

      I once accidentally did this. I just wanted to read a fanfic where they are an cute and wholesome sbiling duo and then I find the worst smut I erver read.

    • @tioraidh-tux
      @tioraidh-tux Місяць тому +30

      me trying to look for dreemurr family fics…

  • @Vivigreeny25
    @Vivigreeny25 Місяць тому +1987

    Fanfic equivalent of forgetting the comma in “let’s eat, Grandma!”

    • @animated_humorist
      @animated_humorist 29 днів тому +19

      Comma*

    • @Vivigreeny25
      @Vivigreeny25 29 днів тому +22

      @@animated_humorist LMAO Ty lol. Couldn’t remember if it was one or two Ms.

    • @MySmileySekai
      @MySmileySekai 15 днів тому +5

      @@Vivigreeny25 example 2, forgetting if its coma or comma :D

    • @Vivigreeny25
      @Vivigreeny25 15 днів тому +2

      @@MySmileySekai LMAO

    • @splatterwatt
      @splatterwatt 9 днів тому

      ⁠@@MySmileySekaiExample 3: Forgetting if it’s a comma or a coma.

  • @jutafreak6153
    @jutafreak6153 Місяць тому +4149

    Somtimes the author doesn't know the difference. At least some are chill when we commenters tell them😅

    • @clemantineMoth
      @clemantineMoth Місяць тому +24

      Me who only learned the difference recently and had to go back to fix all my works
      🥲🫥😶🫠

    • @GayboyVs33godswhowins
      @GayboyVs33godswhowins Місяць тому +3

      real

  • @freshcupofangst
    @freshcupofangst Місяць тому +2416

    I know this is about accidentally finding ship stuff when looking for platonic works but the idea of it being the opposite makes the reaction way funnier tbh. "Oh no I accidentally searched for platonic!!!!! 😰"

    • @minecraftbeelol
      @minecraftbeelol Місяць тому +449

      "THEYRE NOT IN LOVE 😰😰😰😰"

    • @freshcupofangst
      @freshcupofangst Місяць тому +354

      @@minecraftbeelol "THEY'RE BESTIES 😰😰😰😰"

    • @notmithosis7350
      @notmithosis7350 Місяць тому +230

      oh my god they were roommates 😨

    • @Here_have_a_Flower
      @Here_have_a_Flower Місяць тому +158

      "Wait, they *DONT* get together???? The tags LIED to me?!?!"

    • @MeepoTheArchivist
      @MeepoTheArchivist Місяць тому +43

      @@notmithosis7350OMG THEY WERE ROOMATES

  • @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING
    @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING Місяць тому +1486

    When i was new to AO3 i thought & was just another version of / and i was DEVASTATED at the state of my fandom.

    • @clownyApologies
      @clownyApologies Місяць тому +40

      Yeah, big mistake 😭

    • @DinoandGalaxy
      @DinoandGalaxy Місяць тому +82

      Same. Was looking for fanfics of enstars and had no idea what the difference was. Was terrified when I saw “Rei and ritsu” followed by the “incest” tag 😭

    • @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING
      @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING Місяць тому +21

      @@DinoandGalaxy I'm scared of enstars for this very reason, but I'm a Homestuckie so I have no place to speak

    • @DinoandGalaxy
      @DinoandGalaxy Місяць тому +9

      @@I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING I haven’t read homestuck and I know absolutely nothing, pjo is my big one rn aside from enstars but the shipping wars are insane.

    • @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING
      @I_SWEAR_IM_NOT_LYING Місяць тому +13

      @@DinoandGalaxy Homestuck is like the mother of cringe fandoms, like it basically created the cringe fandom culture (that we all know and love)

  • @tiffanyhart1152
    @tiffanyhart1152 Місяць тому +878

    What makes it worse is when you're 10 chapters in, and you actually were enjoying the story.

    • @SurrealMath1
      @SurrealMath1 Місяць тому +9

      Did you mean 10 chapters?

    • @ThePsychicClarinetist
      @ThePsychicClarinetist Місяць тому +13

      ​@@SurrealMath1 I wonder if they meant "characters" as in each letter/space of language/typing rather than the people of the franchise. If it's the people, I hope they actually meant chapters too. 😂😅😰

    • @tiffanyhart1152
      @tiffanyhart1152 Місяць тому +15

      I meant 10 chapters into a multi chapter story. I'm not sure how my comment ended up saying 'characters', and I don't know how to change it, lol😅

    • @tibethatguy
      @tibethatguy Місяць тому +6

      @@tiffanyhart1152 three dots, press edit

    • @tiffanyhart1152
      @tiffanyhart1152 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@tibethatguy Thank you😊

  • @misc9872
    @misc9872 Місяць тому +908

    this is just the fight that happens every year when the ship list gets posted and the people who dont understand ao3 find said list

    • @dfquartzidn6151
      @dfquartzidn6151 Місяць тому +90

      Bruh, for real. Aside from the obvious tags misunderstandings, some people think that ships can only be romantic when in fact, they can be platonic. I think I heard people getting mad at the Dream SMP youtuber ships list when most of them ended up being platonic and the romantic ones were either already established irl or the creators confirmed they were okay with it.

  • @Booglegirl0602
    @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому +237

    The worst is when you just want to see wholesome platonic fics, but when you use &, for some reason a lot of the ship fics with the two characters tag them as both & and /. I just wanted to read fics fleshing out their friendship...

    • @balicard342
      @balicard342 Місяць тому +18

      Oof yeah that's the worst I have to exclude the / relationship or I won't get anywhere

    • @Booglegirl0602
      @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому +17

      @@balicard342 I haven't been on ao3 for that long, how do you exclude tags? That'd be really nice to know for the next time I try to find the fics I was looking for. ^^'

    • @poisned.
      @poisned. Місяць тому

      ​@Booglegirl0602 When you click on the "Filters" button, a side menu will open up with the categories "Include", "Exclude", and "More Options". To exclude relationships you would open the filters menu, go down to the exclude section and open the "Relationships" tab where you can select whatever ships you don't want to see. If the tag you want to exclude isn't there, then you can write it down in "Other tags to exclude". Press sort and filter and you're done!

    • @stilltrash
      @stilltrash Місяць тому

      @@Booglegirl0602Once you are on a fandom page, there should be a “Filters” button at the top of the page. If you click that, it allows you to include and exclude different tags.

    • @buttonsforbooks
      @buttonsforbooks Місяць тому

      ​@@Booglegirl0602when filtering, there's an excluded section right beneath the include section, thats set out exactly the same way

  • @Daelyah
    @Daelyah Місяць тому +450

    Desperately having to avoid the "/" when reading about dynamics that are canonically parent & child... I don't miss those particular days on DeviantArt. 💀
    Glad it's been easier with Ao3's tag system, but OOOF! Quite a few bad memories...

    • @Booglegirl0602
      @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому +15

      Oh God. 💀 That sounds terrible.

    • @ratsmackerpoundcoin
      @ratsmackerpoundcoin Місяць тому +17

      Gorillaz fandom (there are horrors that don’t deserve the light of day in there)

    • @s1hr1imp
      @s1hr1imp Місяць тому +14

      Jesus, those types of fanfics should be deleted 🤢

    • @Daelyah
      @Daelyah Місяць тому +8

      @@s1hr1imp The absolute disgust that hit me when I tried reading Repo! the Genetic Opera fics... I can't stand any of the weirdness shipping Nathan with his daughter 🤮

    • @s1hr1imp
      @s1hr1imp Місяць тому +1

      @@Daelyah no idea what that is but ew 🤢

  • @cramerfloro5936
    @cramerfloro5936 Місяць тому +106

    just recently I found someone who posted their first fic on Ao3, and it was this sweet story of how two adopted siblings first met, aND THEY MISTAKENLY PUT / INSTEAD OF & IN THE TAGS

  • @im_bored_hi_
    @im_bored_hi_ Місяць тому +153

    And this friends is how one gets into a specific genre of smut

  • @bella64005
    @bella64005 Місяць тому +155

    Then there’s the people that switch up / and & and suddenly everything is super confusing

  • @hamburgerdog25
    @hamburgerdog25 Місяць тому +22

    Supernatural taught me what the slash means
    "They know we're brothers, right?"
    "They don't seem to care."

  • @beccaowl7452
    @beccaowl7452 Місяць тому +72

    This when the author mixes it up after they write an incest piece while your looking for wholesome family stories (looks at the Batfam and TMNT fics 👀😳😳)

    • @calm_lynx
      @calm_lynx Місяць тому +5

      When I first started looking for nice TMNT fics on AO3 I was appalled by some of those results lol

    • @CleaverMama
      @CleaverMama Місяць тому +7

      GOD trying to find wholesome batfam fics and suddenly being hit with Batman and his incredibly illegal harem 😭

    • @springspAce.
      @springspAce. Місяць тому +5

      shoutout to the time I was looking for fun Leonardo & Donatello fics and got flashbanged by oral and bdsm

    • @keerteshanathan8460
      @keerteshanathan8460 26 днів тому +1

      Nothings more traumatising than seeing the likes of Batman/[Insert adopted child] or Jason todd/damian Wayne and dick grayson/damian Wayne. Don't get me wrong, all siblings ships are ehh, but these are especially horrifying.

  • @Vlint_Vorgetson
    @Vlint_Vorgetson Місяць тому +99

    Especially when you are searching for a sweet parent and child fic and you put the fucking slash on accident..
    Let’s just say I’ve seen things and my trust in humanity is broken 😅

  • @boomgirlbucko
    @boomgirlbucko Місяць тому +39

    And it's even worse when it's a parent and child pairing 💀

  • @goldmoonflower5588
    @goldmoonflower5588 Місяць тому +37

    Try me with the Rick and Morty family fluff. I just wanted happy, platonic, tooth rotting fluff

  • @pomupeach
    @pomupeach 29 днів тому +6

    two of my favorite character dynamics are the friendship between the adult main character and his teenage assistant, and a single father and his 10 year old daughter. you can imagine the horrors ive met on ao3 when i click the wrong filter

  • @shinyy_mineyy
    @shinyy_mineyy Місяць тому +34

    I did this with Deku and Almight, I just wanted fluffy Dadmight fics 😭

    • @twotruckslyrics
      @twotruckslyrics Місяць тому +7

      oh lord

    • @yoonwehn
      @yoonwehn Місяць тому +8

      This happened to me with aizawa and Shinsou 😭 i wanted to read about dadzawa and shinson but ended up traumatized ✨✨

    • @kiaratoo
      @kiaratoo Місяць тому

      Oh dear

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому +2

      I did the same thing with Tony Stark & Peter Parker fics, I just wanted Irondad fics TwT

    • @jennah5990
      @jennah5990 Місяць тому

      @@lulolieoh nah 😭

  • @ellymyths
    @ellymyths Місяць тому +75

    OKAY OKAY OKAY / IS SHIP AND & AND RELATIONSHIP OF SOME SORT RIGHT??????

    • @V_04.01
      @V_04.01 Місяць тому +61

      Yes, I believe / is supposed to be for romantic and & for platonic. Do correct me if I'm wrong though.

    • @ms.rosilynn
      @ms.rosilynn Місяць тому +74

      "/" is for romantic or sexual relationships, "&" is for platonic relationships.

    • @Vlint_Vorgetson
      @Vlint_Vorgetson Місяць тому +42

      Yes, but be careful, because some writers will use the “&” tag with romantically involved characters, even though it is supposed to be for platonic relationships. I always check the other tags to be sure that it has “platonic relationships” before I read a “&” fic.

    • @xariablake8984
      @xariablake8984 Місяць тому +23

      Some authors will use “&” if it’s a pre-relationship or a “blink and you’ll miss it/ if you squint” relationship.
      Still always use “&” if you’re looking for platonic.
      Better yet, just exclude “/“ pairings you don’t want to read if you really want to avoid a romantic ship

    • @roundabout4727
      @roundabout4727 Місяць тому +2

      Since / is romantic and & is platonic, is there any symbol for queerplatonic or do authors just use & for it as well?

  • @Chaossquid567
    @Chaossquid567 Місяць тому +50

    Literally whenever I see this happen I get a wide, thousand-yard stare before I just try to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope it was a mix up

  • @sleepnow3053
    @sleepnow3053 Місяць тому +8

    POV searching any sibling relationship ever

  • @suchalem6686
    @suchalem6686 Місяць тому +13

    I want wholesome family bonding, not incest

    • @twotruckslyrics
      @twotruckslyrics Місяць тому +1

      incest tags are the first to be excluded 😖

    • @macarune_3933
      @macarune_3933 Місяць тому +1

      Me with Batfam, having to exclude like 10 different tags and still being jumpscared with pairings I didn't know were thought about

    • @ChloeEIizabethPrice
      @ChloeEIizabethPrice Місяць тому +2

      I want both

  • @samscavern69
    @samscavern69 Місяць тому +21

    And sometimes the writer uses both… that ain’t a fun time

    • @Sly-Moose
      @Sly-Moose 13 днів тому

      Officer!? Officer! That fanfic author right there!

    • @samscavern69
      @samscavern69 13 днів тому

      @@Sly-Moose ??

    • @sunset_puzzle
      @sunset_puzzle 2 дні тому

      why though? isn't it for situations when you can read it as platonic OR romantic?
      like... they hug each other, they cry into one another's arms - it isn't romantic by definition, but it's good to tag it by / because it's ship material anyway

    • @samscavern69
      @samscavern69 День тому

      @@sunset_puzzle *shakes head* normally yes… but there we’re mature elements, it was not for kids.

  • @Nexility
    @Nexility Місяць тому +4

    the / fics of canonical siblings….. not as bad when it’s just a headcanon of your’s, but so bad when it’s canon….

  • @justarandomchick767
    @justarandomchick767 Місяць тому +7

    Lately i've been reading more sibling stuff over romance. And the amount of times they get shipped ew😭 agressivly keeping an eye on & in a tag before i read anything sibling related

  • @noinfo4789
    @noinfo4789 29 днів тому +2

    This or when theres a tag for platonic familiar relationship and the author uses it for a ship between them and you don't notice right away

  • @Caterfree10
    @Caterfree10 Місяць тому +12

    See I have less of this problem and more of “I intentionally went to the & version but some assholes are posting the / version with the wrong tag.” It’s even more annoying when the ship is then inc3st.

    • @Booglegirl0602
      @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому +3

      My problem is trying to find the & version, but for some reason it seems that everyone that romantically ships it decided to tag their fics as both / and &. Thankfully what I was looking up wasn't for characters that are related and the other tags made it clear the fic would be romantically shipping the characters, but I really wanted to read some fics fleshing out the characters friendship. 😓

  • @Regulus4257
    @Regulus4257 Місяць тому +4

    The amount of times I'll just look for an innocenf parent adopting kid story and, well, it's not innocent at ALL

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому +1

      So many 😭😭😭

    • @Regulus4257
      @Regulus4257 Місяць тому

      @@lulolie it's just like, I want a wholesome fluffy fic not this SMUT BETWEEN THEM OMG

  • @bkfaye
    @bkfaye Місяць тому +4

    Omg me when I'm looking for mentor fics with like adoptive dad stories similar to Mando and see the '/' ... the way my body gravitates AWAY from ao3

  • @Aria-529
    @Aria-529 Місяць тому +17

    See, this is exactly what happened when I wanted to search up Lumine and Paimon fic on AO3. Immediately realized my mistake after seeing the tags of a VERY INTERESTING FIC THAT I FORGOT THE NAME OF.
    I just wanted some wholesome fics about my fav unofficial sisters haha

    • @yoonwehn
      @yoonwehn Місяць тому

      My jaw dropped

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому

      PAIMON??? WHY 😧

  • @Toobero
    @Toobero Місяць тому +2

    When you're trying to look for a father son dynamic and instead find somethign you never wished to even think existed.

  • @tomatozest6074
    @tomatozest6074 Місяць тому +9

    This happened after I watched The Sandman and tried to search Dream & Rose and accidentally hit Dream/Rose 🙂 not to kinkshame but thats his whole ass niece

  • @caseyt3923
    @caseyt3923 Місяць тому +15

    Me after I went to search up Tom & Sonic (from the Sonic movies) and ended up seeing Tom/Sonic/OZZY
    WHAT IS THE DOG DOING HERE I WAS SO DEEPLY DISTURBED 😭

  • @kieleedecker3228
    @kieleedecker3228 Місяць тому +2

    This is a accurate representation of me trying to find fanfics in the Supernatural fandom

  • @madelainekane760
    @madelainekane760 Місяць тому +2

    “Get me out of here, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!”

  • @MEL-ie4sg
    @MEL-ie4sg Місяць тому +2

    The stress be real. Like my eyes did not need to be assaulted like that. Historains will call them friends and they are CORRECT lol

  • @moonjumper3624
    @moonjumper3624 Місяць тому +2

    I recently learned there was a HUGE difference. Sometimes the author tags the work with both & and /

  • @stormylobby
    @stormylobby Місяць тому +6

    This reminds me of how I was looking up fics for a new ship of mine the other day. The fandom it’s from is unfortunately not _that_ big, thus there’s not a ton of fics. While scrolling, I found one where the author had tagged the two characters involved in said ship with /, but then had another tag(s) saying something along the lines of “btw this fic isn’t shipping X and Y, I’m just listing it because they’re acting like parents to Z.” At that point, I really gotta ask what’s even going through the author’s mind when they knowingly decide to tag X/Y instead of X & Y, despite also having X & Z and Y & Z tagged too-

    • @yoonwehn
      @yoonwehn Місяць тому +1

      Ngl I’d be a little upset 😭

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому +1

      That's straight up false advertising 💀

    • @stormylobby
      @stormylobby Місяць тому +1

      @@lulolie Fr, I was tempted to comment and (politely) ask why they chose to do that, but in the end I just decided to just ignore and move on. Though, it is times like this where sometimes I wish there was some sort of tag modification request function so I could politely ask for it to be corrected without seeming like a bother :’3

    • @stormylobby
      @stormylobby Місяць тому +1

      @@yoonwehn While stuff like that normally doesn’t bother me all that much, considering how little fic material there was for the ship, I was kinda disappointed. Hell, it’s not even a rare pair situation either, this is straight up one of the main two ships for the newest mainline entry in the franchise. I’m starving here and yet I was bamboozled :’)

  • @cora1334
    @cora1334 Місяць тому +3

    I was looking for some nice growing up stories of Bilbo and Frodo and I was wondering why I couldn't find anything until ... well ... 💀💀

  • @justijess5233
    @justijess5233 Місяць тому +2

    And its always the most messed up pairing imaginable.😅

  • @LuckyRyo9989
    @LuckyRyo9989 Місяць тому +3

    This is why i miss the x being used it was simple lol
    Also tfw your otp has the & but the notp has the / and you don’t notice till halfway in lol

  • @d_1044
    @d_1044 27 днів тому +1

    And there are way too many results compared to the amount of disgust you feel at the mere idea 😭

  • @asantaimeep
    @asantaimeep 29 днів тому +2

    Hot tip y'all, use the EXCLUDE tags too lmfao. If you're looking for exclusively "&" dynamics, remember to exclude the "/" tag as well to avoid unwanted exposure 😭

  • @singmeunder
    @singmeunder Місяць тому +1

    This is always a struggle when a new fandom finds its way to AO3 and drags over a bunch of new users who have no idea how the tags work.

  • @Clevernamegoeshere
    @Clevernamegoeshere Місяць тому +1

    me when i accidentally type in “Son Gohan/Son Goku” instead of “Son Gohan & Son Goku”

  • @CocoCouponing
    @CocoCouponing 26 днів тому +1

    When I first got into AO3, I didn't know the difference between the / and &... I learned very quickly.

  • @jademonass2954
    @jademonass2954 6 годин тому +1

    found this out yesterday
    i am SO glad theres a way to get non romance fics 😭

  • @cartoongame5007
    @cartoongame5007 Місяць тому +2

    One time an author in an amphibia fic put both grime/sasha and grime & sasha in the tags and i hadnt noticed, i got really scared, asked in the comments, and they IMMEDIATELY fixed it. Turns out they didn't know the difference lmao

  • @l1smm309
    @l1smm309 25 днів тому +1

    And then all of a sudden you’re hit with a twincest tag 💀

  • @RikkiLove0317
    @RikkiLove0317 22 дні тому +1

    When I’m looking for platonic Ib and Garry fics 😭

  • @mooonblooom
    @mooonblooom 28 днів тому +2

    the first time i used ao3 i saw a lot of father/son fics with / instead of & and i thought "oh! they probably just mixed up the tags!" oh how naive i was.

    • @osheridan
      @osheridan 28 днів тому

      Same but with two brothers. They... I looked at the other tags and it wasn't a mix-up.
      The only thing that somehow made it worse was that it took place in a graveyard in a scene where one brother was canonically having a psychotic break.
      I'm an optimist but sometimes I fear for humanity

  • @mythneedssleep
    @mythneedssleep 28 днів тому +1

    My first time posting on Ao3 I didn’t know the difference and used both… it was a sibling focused fic

  • @UR2SL0W
    @UR2SL0W Місяць тому +2

    "Sonic & Tails" 😊
    "Sonic/Tails" 😨

  • @evywaller9192
    @evywaller9192 28 днів тому

    The pained laughter that escaped me as the memory of every time I’ve done this flooded into my mind.

  • @mo0nyy4siir1vss
    @mo0nyy4siir1vss 28 днів тому +1

    I didn't know the difference until I accidentally searched up a sibling duo with/ instead of & and I am so disappointed with the state of my fandom.

  • @user-ll2ds2te9p
    @user-ll2ds2te9p 23 дні тому +1

    pjsk incest tags will ALWAYS haunt me😭😭

  • @WateverWatever04
    @WateverWatever04 23 дні тому +1

    W.... why is he calling him Daddy so much? OH N-

  • @Menacingly_Standing_There
    @Menacingly_Standing_There Місяць тому +2

    When you're looking for a wholesome parental fic but instead get underaged trauma inducers.

  • @llamas9321
    @llamas9321 27 днів тому +1

    I've come across fics that have both and i just ignore them not wanting to risk it

  • @DinkyBets
    @DinkyBets 26 днів тому

    It’s giving Sam and Dean Winchester-core ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @YeetMania
    @YeetMania Місяць тому

    Duo is watching...always

  • @nelly_1775
    @nelly_1775 28 днів тому +1

    When I see "sibling/sibling" I used to give them the benefit of the doubt that they just don't know the difference between / and &.

    • @osheridan
      @osheridan 28 днів тому +1

      Same but with two brothers. They... I looked at the other tags and it wasn't a mix-up.
      The only thing that somehow made it worse was that it took place in a graveyard in a scene where one brother was canonically having a psychotic break.
      I'm an optimist but sometimes I fear for humanity

  • @lynk2572
    @lynk2572 Місяць тому +2

    The worst for me was Thranduil/Legolas 😭 and I know these two aren't technically related but Thor/Loki 💀

  • @jexim_kymaria
    @jexim_kymaria 21 день тому

    Just makes you wanna
    *backflips straight into the void*

  • @gordonramslay9955
    @gordonramslay9955 28 днів тому +1

    The worst one I’ve ever done was reading father&son when in fact the fic tagged father/son 😭 it took three chapters for me to realise.

  • @luminouslady5229
    @luminouslady5229 18 днів тому

    So many horrors younger me faced, just wanting wholesome Peter Parker and Irondad interactions 😭

  • @MacabreIngenue2
    @MacabreIngenue2 Місяць тому

    Accidental Wincest

  • @elfi643
    @elfi643 Місяць тому

    I got so close to accidentally tagging my fic as stain/izuku when it's a fic about stain effectively adopting izuku bc I started posting it before I really understand all the tagging stuff 😭😭

  • @finniganlaky37
    @finniganlaky37 Місяць тому

    This has happened to my dyslexic ass way too many times.

  • @iris2179
    @iris2179 19 днів тому

    One way's a slight disappointment, the other way is OH MY FICKING FOD

  • @betsyb
    @betsyb Місяць тому

    remember kids: / means a romantic pairing, and & means a platonic one. try not to give everyone a heart attack by mixing them up lol

  • @1Sunny1_
    @1Sunny1_ Місяць тому

    The day I mixed it with two characters that are biologically and canonically parent and child... the memories are burned into my retinas.

  • @flyingfridgezzz7347
    @flyingfridgezzz7347 16 днів тому +1

    I’m having flashbacks to when my search was intended to be Dabi & Shoto and ended up with Dabi / Shoto 💀 Traumatizing.

  • @thatadorablefox
    @thatadorablefox День тому

    And it’s a sibling pairing…

  • @shinrin1081
    @shinrin1081 17 днів тому

    Pepper Potts and Peter Parker having the same intials yeah that made for some horrifying accidents my young eye shouldn't have had to deal with but I learned to use the exclude tags feature as a result!

  • @Long_May_They_Raine
    @Long_May_They_Raine 28 днів тому

    At first I was like 🤨
    And then my childhood came flooding back 💀

  • @AUCreatoer
    @AUCreatoer Місяць тому +1

    Thankfully only happened to me once when I was still new to the sorting system and tried to find my parent & child duo fics. Thank god it never happened again 😭😭 (was NOT happy at what I saw).

    • @Booglegirl0602
      @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому +1

      Oh no 💀 Why does seem this to be such a common occasion?

    • @AUCreatoer
      @AUCreatoer Місяць тому +1

      @@Booglegirl0602 I just got used to the (PERSON A "X" PERSON B) to indicate a ship, so I didn't know that "/" is the indicator for romantic pairings. JFKKG got me so confused when I first read a fic 😭

  • @poe.and.theholograms
    @poe.and.theholograms Місяць тому +1

    What gets me confused is that apparently Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings is a dead dove whereas No Archive Warnings Apply is a sugarcloud? But sometimes I write stories within stories, like one of my characters is telling an OG Grimm fairy tale to another character so it's clear the whole while that it's only a story within a story even if the content is gory. Either way it's not exactly one of the applicable warnings because it's referenced more than it is present or it's something else entirely that's not the main 4.

    • @Booglegirl0602
      @Booglegirl0602 Місяць тому

      I've never heard of sugarcloud. Is it basically to opposite of dead dove, ie sickeningly sweet with how wholesome it is?

    • @poe.and.theholograms
      @poe.and.theholograms Місяць тому +2

      @@Booglegirl0602 That's how I use the term, yes. I partially got it from TV Tropes' "Sugar Wiki" (opposite of their Darth Wiki) but mostly stole it from the Sugar Cloud song in the stage musical "Ride the Cyclone".

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому

      Yeah I hate that shit, like you know warnings apply but you're like "Nope, ypu get a surprise, teehee :D" Like MF I EXCLUDE TAGS FOR A REASON get this r@pe/inc3st/child @buse shit the fuck away from me 😭😭😭

    • @lulolie
      @lulolie Місяць тому

      Why do they do it 😭😭😭

    • @poe.and.theholograms
      @poe.and.theholograms Місяць тому

      @@lulolie why do people write sugarcloud? or why do people tag Chose Not To Use at the same time as No Warnings Apply?

  • @Blame.
    @Blame. Місяць тому +1

    UUUUAAAAHHHHGG I ONCE ACCIDENTALLY DID THIS WITH PHILZA MINECRAFT AND TECHNOBLADE (I was just looking for some wholesome father-son fics 😭😭😭😭)

  • @maniawalker724
    @maniawalker724 Місяць тому

    tha tduo in the back, hanging there, MENACINGLY

  • @flair1681
    @flair1681 Місяць тому

    Me assuming (and misreading) the / and & for the relationship tag between characters who are _siblings_ and the following relationship tag between _canonically romantically involved characters_ and being absolutely flabbergasted when one of said siblings started _kissing_ the other one:

  • @Sly-Moose
    @Sly-Moose 13 днів тому

    I'm thankful I haven't had that experience yet 😂

  • @meowmeowmix9830
    @meowmeowmix9830 20 днів тому

    LITERALLY SO REAL

  • @Rasshu.BenaioKNY
    @Rasshu.BenaioKNY Місяць тому +1

    Me who uses nothing cause i dont know sh

    • @painandsuffering7130
      @painandsuffering7130 Місяць тому

      And me using both for the longest time because I just thought they were two variations of the same tag

  • @DinoandGalaxy
    @DinoandGalaxy Місяць тому

    I just wanted a silly sibling dynamic between hiiro, rinne, ritsu and Rei 😭

  • @nownotavailable
    @nownotavailable 24 дні тому

    why is no one talking about how she just slapped away her keyboard I can’t breathe

  • @DoodlebugDrawz
    @DoodlebugDrawz 27 днів тому +1

    when you search up & but the / fics still appear.. like guys just put it as only / not / and & it isnt that hard.

  • @thesimp6401
    @thesimp6401 28 днів тому

    I learned English bc the traductor switches them up

  • @KatyRules
    @KatyRules 27 днів тому

    when u think ur reading a sibling one shot but they ship them instead 😭

  • @VampiricCultist
    @VampiricCultist 15 днів тому

    me seeing any actual blood family with / when scrolling through the fandom tag: 😀

  • @alternateGRAMMAR
    @alternateGRAMMAR 11 днів тому

    Me when this short just made me aware that there’s a difference and I used the wrong one T_T

  • @naru-bunny
    @naru-bunny 22 дні тому

    *laughs in proshipper* 😎

  • @-._.lexi-the-wolf._.-
    @-._.lexi-the-wolf._.- 2 дні тому

    AND THEN YOU REMEMBER THAT IT’S NOT A REGULAR FRIENDSHIP, THEY’RE BIOLOGICAL SIBLINGS

  • @felixisfruity
    @felixisfruity 29 днів тому

    when it’s a parent and child duo 😀😨

  • @Erwinnotfound
    @Erwinnotfound 29 днів тому

    NO, I WILL NEVER USE A03 AGAIN AFTER I READ “the hat fic”

  • @moondrop_fan3645
    @moondrop_fan3645 20 днів тому

    I did that once in my fanfic. I didnt even notice till someone told me. I was SO embarrased

  • @tidela4714
    @tidela4714 21 день тому

    Accidentally searching Luke/Leia like

  • @thequietdreamer2186
    @thequietdreamer2186 Місяць тому +1

    Yeah, that’ll get ya.