Fandom-dropping progress, June 15 report
Down to 728 fandoms! I’ve knocked out about 150 since the last check-in, and almost exactly 800 in the whole past 6 months.
There are so many 1-work webcomic fandoms to drop, and I’m not even halfway through the alphabet yet. Bet I get my list under 450 by the end of this sweep.
(I’m not gonna just reach 450 and then stop. We’re doing the full A-to-Z here. Hopefully that leaves me a nice amount of wiggle room to pick up and clean new fandoms — which I’ve done a little of in the past 6 months, but it’ll be nice when I can make that a regular thing again.)
Only 25 of my fandoms have any tags to wrangle. This time I checked through in a little more detail, and for a full 8 of those, all the unwrangled tags are in the “crossover from for a fandom that isn’t canonical yet” category. (A full 2 of them are only here because of the same fic! It’s from this past December, and it’s tagged with 2 different adaptations of The Grinch…plus a tiny little web series, whose characters have been sitting in the Grinch bins ever since.)
AMT updates: I’m still holding firm on not being the person to detangle the Pundit & Broadcast Journalist RPF tag…but I did go down a different rabbit hole, and ended up writing a proposal to turn Late Night Host RPF into a metatag.
This involves a couple updates to Fake-News-adjacent fandom tags (LSSC and LWT). So I’m not re-submitting the new-and-improved Fake News AMT proposal until after this whole shebang has been processed.
It also involved adding a few new late-night fandoms to my wrangling list. (This kind of project is one of the reasons to leave wiggle room.) Definitely not keeping these long-term! Just long enough to make sure that, if/when everything gets updated, the various Jimmies and Jameses and so on all end up in the right places.
#ArchiveOfOurOwn #FakeNews #tagging #TheGrinch
Can You Find This Fandom, post #2
Sequel to the first post of this hot new internet game: “Someone has posted a fic on AO3 with this New Fandom Tag. Can we figure out what fandom it’s referring to?”
Recap: To get a fandom approved for a canonical tag on AO3 — especially a fandom for a series that should be online in the first place — it helps if you have links to sources. As in “here’s the website, here’s the creator’s social media, here’s a wiki page, here’s any other info to confirm what the canon is.”
These webcomic fandom tags have been lingering for a while, uncanonized and unfilterable. I went looking for the original comic, and couldn’t find it. So I’m tossing the questions to the broader internet hivemind…
“Apotelesma (Webcomic)” – Another case where I can find multiple comics with this title — Apotelesma by sunflowee and Apotelesma: A Space Odessy by nicolapop — but neither of them obviously match the character tags on the work (March 2026). Secret third Apotelesma?
“Overdrive Webcomic” – All I found was Overdrive by srinitybeast, and the work (Jan 2026) doesn’t seem to match the character tags or the genre. Another lost Overdrive out there?
“Rabies (webcomic)” – The work (Dec 2024) has a bunch of lovely full-name character tags, but since they’re all realistic names, googling them these days just gets you a ton of results about real people with those names. Unhelpful.
“Reach For The Stars Universe (Web Comic)” – The work (March 2025) is also tagged with Minecraft and an SMP fandom, so maybe it’s a spinoff/fancomic for one of those? I don’t know enough about that branch of fandom to effectively through it. [ETA: Probably found! Reach For The Stars is a Minecraft mod/webseries.]
“Static (Webcomic)” – On a recent work (May 2026), but there’s also a work from February that seems to be the same fandom. Both crossovers with a comic by ttwonkies on Tumblr, but I didn’t spot any helpful references to Static on ttwonkies’ social media.
#ArchiveOfOurOwn #canYouFindThisFandom #tagging #webcomics
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gonna start* a hot new internet game: “Someone has posted a fic on AO3 with this New Fandom Tag. Can we figure out what fandom it’s referring to?”</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="wp-block-paragraph">*(No guarantee when/if I’ll continue…
I Need To Stop Making Promises I Can't Keep | 🔗 https://brennan.day/i-need-to-stop-making-promises-i-cant-keep/
#IndieWeb #Fanfiction #Community #Technical #WebDevelopment #Law #Moderation #Tagging
@kentpitman @yantar92 @ramin_hal9001 @chiply @karthink @someodd @screwlisp (I haven't read through the whole thread)
In general, you need to differ between different methods of #informationretrieval.
#Search vs. #navigation vs. #tags/labels vs. others + combinations such as teleportation ...
Furthermore, you need to differ between personal retrieval, where you yourself had done some filing/#categorization/tagging process and a process where you need to retrieve something from a corpus that was not somehow curated by you yourself but by one or many peers instead (social #tagging, company file server, ...).
And yes, in any case, your personal mental model changes over time. Therefore, it's difficult to do successful retrieval even for your personal files especially when you did not follow certain principles during the filing process.
For example, that's why tagging is not as simple as most people think it is: https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/
or https://karl-voit.at/2020/12/27/tagging-natural-objects/
Grounding AI the webby way — Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 takeaways
There was a heavy focus on artificial intelligence. But what really struck me was that the semantic approaches that are preparing us for our AI future are well-established web standards that have been around for decades.https://duncanstephen.net/grounding-ai-the-webby-way-taxonomy-boot-camp-london-2026-takeaways/
So, I've been busily tagging my e-book collection, consolodating similar-but-not-identical tags, classifying stuff as Science Fiction or Fantasy and so on. I mean, like, I have Project Gutenberg books tagged with "Human-alien encounters", changing them to just "Aliens" seems more sensible to me, right?
Pondering the usefulness of not bothering with redundant tagging. For example, if I have Doctor Who e-books, it seems pretty stupid to tag them all with "Time Travel" because I already *know* that, it seems redundant, and makes the non Doctor-Who time travel novels harder to find.
What are your thoughts? How do you go about tagging/keywords if you want to keep your stuff (ebooks) organised? Or are you content with just Author-and-Title?
Daniel
Humanist+Humorist
Clay Winter
Lone Wolf
Brennan Kenneth Brown
Karl Voit 
Duncan Stephen
Kerr Avonsen (she/her)
DEVONtechnologies