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A Field Guide to AO3 Tags

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Chapter 3: Freeform tags

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Below the squares come fandoms, relationships, characters, and then the freeform tags, which creators write themselves. Freeform tags cover everything else: tropes, moods, settings, and running commentary.

Volunteer tag wranglers connect tags that mean the same thing, so a search for one spelling also finds the others. That is why two works with differently worded tags can still turn up in the same search.