Well, the magic I believe in most thoroughly and closest to my heart is the magic of story, because us having these stories right down to the truenames, and having the space to make them ours, *is* a gift, so *I* don't want it to be 'out there', because I feel like there's a certain respect for the canon and the characters that should be a part of writing fic about them (even if you're writing against the text).
But yeah, I suspect throwing this onto the wranglers list would get me some funny looks. ^_^ Sure, write kinky porn about them, that's fine, but throwing truenames around casually - now that's a step too far! (But it *is*. Because until you start throwing around truenames, you're not writing kinky porn about *them*, just about an image of them. ...hmm, this is starting to sound like an RPS argument. I am okay with that.)
And if someone has claimed a fandom to wrangle, I kind of expect them to care about it a bit, enough to be invested at least a *little* in the universe's metaphysics...
But, yeah, wrangling people who use multiple names, or titles, or whatever, is always going to be an issue. Any attempt at specific guidelines is pretty much foredoomed from the start, and AO3's quirky and not-always-transparent ways of dealing with tag hierarchies and relatedness doesn't help. But that's half the fun, right?
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But yeah, I suspect throwing this onto the wranglers list would get me some funny looks. ^_^ Sure, write kinky porn about them, that's fine, but throwing truenames around casually - now that's a step too far! (But it *is*. Because until you start throwing around truenames, you're not writing kinky porn about *them*, just about an image of them. ...hmm, this is starting to sound like an RPS argument. I am okay with that.)
And if someone has claimed a fandom to wrangle, I kind of expect them to care about it a bit, enough to be invested at least a *little* in the universe's metaphysics...
But, yeah, wrangling people who use multiple names, or titles, or whatever, is always going to be an issue. Any attempt at specific guidelines is pretty much foredoomed from the start, and AO3's quirky and not-always-transparent ways of dealing with tag hierarchies and relatedness doesn't help. But that's half the fun, right?