#but freeform

[rthwrms]

fuck it. morningstar

#crochet #freeform crochet #artists on tumblr #my art tag #fiber art

[salamispots]

posting a gift wip since I know my siblings aren't on here haha

#rug hooking #wip #purely personals #fabrication #older sis is getting a swan and bb sis is getting an otter #went out today and donated a bunch of yarn at an art supply swap thing #was nice that they had small amounts of yarn/not full skeins that other people donated #because I don't really need a whole ass skein especially if it's solid color #I just want bits and pieces so I can do stuff like the swan background #like this a lot more than latchhook; like latchhook would be pixel art and rug hooking is more like drawing/more freeform #oH it's also nice that all that yarn I prechopped for latchhook I can still use for rug hooking haha #also went to a fabric store and it was crammed full of stuff and the yarn selection was actually really nice #will def go back

[incendavery]

✨️🌈🌟🌈✨️

#comics on tumblr #artists on tumblr #angelcore #freeform illustration #davedrawsstuff #no image description

[stutterhug]

Hawks Fall

#comic #Freeform #Hawk #Withdrawl

[kori-senpai]

I have never played smash bros in my life

(Edit: I did a part two ayeee ✨ you guys are persuasive (affectionate))

#Alternative tags I wanted to use; Buttons - Not a fan of whippies and R.I.P Karl #'How To: Leave your wife and kids like a gentleman' for Stede #and He loves nature for Ed #I will not add the alternate for Izzy cause you're all a bit #Peculiar when it comes to him #I lost the screenshot I had for Ed so I had to freeform him that's why he looks so strange #our flag means death #ofmd #if you take that teeny tiny comment about weddings into account its almost a spoiler #blackbeard #ed teach #Edward teach #stede bonnet #nathaniel buttons #buttons ofmd #izzy hands #my art

[multixkellz]

#Netflix #wlw #the wilds #first kill #gentleman jack #batwoman #wynonna earp #supergirl #killing eve #atypical #black lightning #legends of tomorrow #dickinson #owl house #legacies #motherland freeform #motherland fort salem #lgbtq #stolen tweet

[nahimjustfuckinwithya]

good morning lgbtqdw+ community

#sorry if the quality on these is Bad all of these were made with nothing but screenshots freeform for mac & a dream #oh and entirely in class i made all of these mid latin class #the grind never stops #thoschei #tensimm #doctor who #tenth doctor #simm!master #the ramblings of a lunatic #no one's better than queue

[facingthenorthwind]

Why does this have "- Freeform" at the end? and other questions about AO3 tag suffixes

Have you ever tagged something only for it to get a suffix like Character, Relationship or Freeform stuck on the end when you hit save? Do you think it's ugly and want it to go away, but don't know how? You probably can't, unfortunately, but there are a few situations where you can.

A tag suffix is a hyphen followed by the name of a tag category. Tags are either Fandom, Character, Relationship or Freeform tags. The reason that a suffix gets put on a tag is that the wrangulator (the part of AO3's backend that deals with tags) can't have tags with the same name, even if they're in different categories. As a solution, it puts the category at the end of tags that have first been tagged in some other category. For example: let's say that someone tags Evil Mark Donk in the characters field because that's where they want it to appear on their work (which is a perfectly valid choice to make!). Then someone else comes along and tries to tag Evil Mark Donk in the additional tags/freeforms field. (That field is shown as "additional tags" on the posting form, but the wrangulator and tag wranglers call it the "freeforms" because that's what it was originally called.) When the second person hits save, it will appear as Evil Mark Donk - Freeform on their fic. This will also happen if someone tags Evil Mark Donk in the relationships field, but there it would appear as Evil Mark Donk - Relationship. It's ugly and it's annoying, but the wrangulator is trying its best.

So how do you get rid of it? Sometimes it turns up because you've accidentally put your tags in the wrong field. Maybe you wrote a fic where you tagged Evil Mark Donk in the additional tags field, and no one else had tagged for it before you, which means it doesn't have a suffix and everything's right! But then you write a second fic, forgot to select the "additional tags" field when posting and now suddenly you've got Evil Mark Donk - Character on your fic. If that's the case, all you have to do is move it. But what if the first person to tag it wasn't you, and they put it in the character field, so you're stuck with Evil Mark Donk - Freeform? You can choose a different phrasing for the tag that wasn't initially tagged in a different field, e.g. Evil!Mark Donk or Mark Donk is Evil.

You may also have the problem that on the first use of a particular tag, you accidentally put it in a field you don't want it to be in, and now even when you put it in the right one, it still comes up as Evil Mark Donk - Freeform! The wrangulator has betrayed you, and you will be stuck with the ugly suffix forever! Not so, my friend. The problem is that even though you deleted the character tag Evil Mark Donk, it's still floating around in the wrangulator, which hasn't noticed that you deleted it. What you have to do is wait for 24 hours (give it a few for leeway) and a part of the wrangulator called "the rake" will delete it. After it's been raked, you can go forth and post it in the additional tags field, and no suffix will appear!

Unfortunately, most of the time it's going to be that someone else tagged it in a category you don't want to tag it first, and you can't change it without changing the phrasing of your tag. Sorry!

Sometimes, taggers will add their own suffixes, and tag wranglers are extremely curious about why. If you've done this, or something similar like put (freeform) in brackets after a tag, please let us know why! What does freeform mean to you? You are of course free to put suffixes on manually if you want -- it's a valid way to tag! We are just fascinated by this practice and don't really understand it. Please enlighten us!

For more information about tags, I've written some other explanations about how tags work, such as how to tell what type of tag something is and tag capitalisation.

#ao3 #ao3 tags #tag wrangling #how to ao3 #ao3 tips #the effort it took to write 'additional tags' instead of 'freeforms' everywhere in this post #this is so confusing and hard to explain so please please ask questions! #tag wrangling is so hard to explain to people who can't see what's going on [sob]

[myuminji]

#not pictured: a wolfwood carrying a drunk vash up the stairs to his room #gently dresses him into comfier clothes and tucking him into his blanket #all while chastising him lovingly telling him he should cut out his bad drinking habits #vash asking him to stay and he did. shoes and all. #(his shoes weren't off the last time vash saw him isn't it?) #trigun #trigun maximum #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #myuminjiart #i am allergic to panelling these days. i call it freeform art #i dont have any idea what i drew and kept on adding whatever pops in my head at that moment #90% dependent on my playlist

[yotenotes]

pest posting GRAHHHH

#roblox #roblox art #regretevator #pest regretevator #pest #insect #beetle #insectoid #doodle #sketch #system alter #system art #pest posting #freeform #yotenotes

[rthwrms]

kitty cat approved!!!

#crochet #crochet art #freeform crochet #artists on tumblr #fiber art #my art tag

[chrono-phage]

This weekend, I have been working on this freeform portrait of our oscar fish, Grumpus. Its my first real attempt at a full freehand, freeform piece and its turning out really big

#crochet #art #fiber art #crocheters of tumblr #artists of tumblr #freeform crochet #my art #crochetblr #knitting #yarn #yarn art #crafting

[incendavery]

🦷☀️👁☀️🦷

#artists on tumblr #freeform illustration #eyes #teeth #davedrawsstuff #no image description

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

feeling my oats in the outfit i crocheted for my drag persona 🤡

#dear diary #my face #crochet #freeform crochet #crochetblr #clown girl

[mochiwei]

Link WIP!

#long time no post #wip #my art #fan art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #mochiwei #procreate #zelda #tloz #link #botw #totk #freeform #no sketch #just ink #will finish soon

[thottybrucewayne]

Ngl, I get mad as fuck when I think about what the fandomfication process is doing to Hobie.

He's not mean! He's not a bully! He's not "toxic"! He's like, the best Black Punk rep I've seen in media in a long time and the best anarchist rep I've seen in media, EVER! Yall have been so weird and antiblack about him and it hurts because I was SO excited to see ANY version of Hobie get attention. Now I just kinda wish they never put him in the movie in the first place :/

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #hobie brown #atsv hobie #hobert brown #Yall saw a cool Black dude with FREEFORM DREADS and said 'He stinks and is dirty and mean and gross also arent we funny?' ugh