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sid_guardian2019-04-04 07:31 pm
likealeafonthewind) wrote in sid_guardian2019-04-04 07:31 pm
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A couple of fic-writing related questions
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a fandom consensus on a couple of things:
1. what to call the different groups of people that occupy Haixing
a. Haixingren/Dixingren/Yashouren
b. Haixingian/Dixingian/(Yashou...?)
c. Other
2. how to tag fics that take place in the past so that they can be more easily found by readers who may be looking specifically for them
a. War Era (an existing tag but not specific to Guardian)
b. Ten Thousand Years Ago (not currently an established tag but could be if enough people use it)
c. Other
ETA: I'm going to try to summarize the discussion from the comments:
1. It sounds like most people would go with Dixingren and Yashou, but Haixingren vs humans seem to be pretty evenly split.
2. I think the general consensus is that the novel and the drama should have their own, separate fic tags for the past, because their backstories and timelines are so different. And anyone writing a blended fic could use both tags. So maybe Ten Thousand Years Ago or Old Haixing/Ancient Haixing/Ye Olde Haixing for the drama history fics (yeah, I know, it hasn't been narrowed down at all)? Not many suggestions so far for the novelverse fics specifically but I personally think Kunlun Era (fromqikiqtarjuaq works well for it, since IIRC, Kunlun precedes almost everyone and everything else there, including Shen Wei). So basically...still an open, ongoing discussion.
1. what to call the different groups of people that occupy Haixing
a. Haixingren/Dixingren/Yashouren
b. Haixingian/Dixingian/(Yashou...?)
c. Other
2. how to tag fics that take place in the past so that they can be more easily found by readers who may be looking specifically for them
a. War Era (an existing tag but not specific to Guardian)
b. Ten Thousand Years Ago (not currently an established tag but could be if enough people use it)
c. Other
ETA: I'm going to try to summarize the discussion from the comments:
1. It sounds like most people would go with Dixingren and Yashou, but Haixingren vs humans seem to be pretty evenly split.
2. I think the general consensus is that the novel and the drama should have their own, separate fic tags for the past, because their backstories and timelines are so different. And anyone writing a blended fic could use both tags. So maybe Ten Thousand Years Ago or Old Haixing/Ancient Haixing/Ye Olde Haixing for the drama history fics (yeah, I know, it hasn't been narrowed down at all)? Not many suggestions so far for the novelverse fics specifically but I personally think Kunlun Era (from
qikiqtarjuaq works well for it, since IIRC, Kunlun precedes almost everyone and everything else there, including Shen Wei). So basically...still an open, ongoing discussion.
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2. Huh. That's a very good question. I don't think I actually tagged my fic with anything except "spoilers through episode 36," which I figured gave people the context to know the era in question, but that doesn't actually help if what you're writing doesn't deal with the canon timeline. I'd be inclined to go with Ten Thousand Years Ago, because it's more specific, and allows for non-War Era work (planetfall, for example, though that was actually much farther back than ten thousand years ago).