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[topaz119]

yow. long time, no post, life is crazy, etc, etc, etc, and it's not really all that entertaining of a story, so I'll spare you. Everyone is still employed, mostly healthy, and mostly dealing. On the plus side, D has been distracting himself by clearing out closets and corners and desks, so Goodwill has gotten 4 or 5 drop-offs; there is a lawn & leaf-sized bag of things to be shredded; the back of my minivan (the littler Honda) is full of electronics to be recycled; and our curbside recycle pick-up this week is going to be mammoth. AND, I have an office that is a functional workroom, with space for minor crafting and a place to store all my stationery (I have a tiny paper problem.)

I come bearing gifts, though! Or at least a tidy list of other people's gifts & an addendum of my own. If you're in a small fandom, this might not be such a big deal, but if you're in a big one you know that sifting through everything that's been posted to AO3 can be impossible. You probably know the trick to filter out specific tags**, which makes it much easier to eliminate things that don't do it for you. This necessitates figuring out the tags and keeping a list, which is kind of a drag, so when I saw this post go by on tumblr, I almost turned cartwheels, because it has 200 (!!!!!) ID numbers for popular tags and AUs.

Ok, so that's awesome and what I'd like to add are my own list of ID numbers (ships and sources) that you might want to filter out of a search. (No judgement here! I love me some Clint/Coulson, but when I want Natasha/Clint, I'd rather them not be the prior ship on the way to the SHIELDHusbands happy ending. Or, if I just want to see if anyone has written anything new in MI4 Ghost Protocol, I'd really rather not wade through the many MCU crossovers.)

Anyway, it's only a few and MCU/SPN centric, but I thought a few of you might get some use out of it.

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark -filter_ids:7265
Loki/Tony Stark -filter_ids:247771
Clint Barton/Loki -filter_ids:289723
Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov -filter_ids:262275
Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers -filter_ids:110293
Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis -filter_ids:246838
Clint Barton/Phil Coulson -filter_ids:257188

The Avengers (Marvel Movies) -filter_ids:1001939
Marvel Movies -filter_ids:96137

Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester -filter_ids:35
Castiel/Dean Winchester -filter_ids:5672
Ruby/Sam Winchester -filter_ids:5683

Jensen/Jared -filter_ids:5494



**If this doesn't make sense to you, let me know & I'll show you how. (I'm a tech writer! I do this for actual pay! I will do screen shots and everything!)

Comments

[schneefink]

Huh, I hadn't heard about that. I was just using -"thing", but this seems more precise. Thanks for the tip :)

[topaz119]

You're welcome! It still means that the writer has to have tagged the fic in some way that resolves to the meta-tag whose ID you're filtering for, but it does help clear the list down to a more manageable group.

[carta.livejournal.com]

You are my new best friend. I've been wanting to filter out AUs for years.

Now, if only there was a way to filter out "Lisbon gets pregnant" fic from The Mentalist fandom, sigh. One day, the world will be curated to my interests. :D

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I keep waiting for people to do things the way I want them done, too, but so far, the uptake on that has been slow. :D

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting this up!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome!

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

This is a beautiful thing. Thank you!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

You're so welcome!