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Tags!
I felt it was time to improve the filing system around here, and so have gone rummaging back in the stacks, tagging Sporfles of old.

Here's a handy reference guide, in case anybody feels the need to go searching for old favourites!

Daily Sporfle's Tagging System

The tags refer to the quotes contained in the posts, rather than the fictions themselves - this is because sometimes I've spread a particularly good piece of badfic over a couple of days, and different things have come up.

crossover
For crossovers (duh).
Example:
The Chosen One of the Valar - for when two fandoms just aren't enough.

omgwtfbbq
For stuff that just doesn't make sense.
Example: The famous Manatee Quote from the Starlight Butterfly and Dark Dagger post

speling
For misspellings and spellcheck mishaps. This tag turned out to be a dud; practically every fic we've ever featured has dreadful spelling.
Example (one of many): Changing for the Good or the Worst?

grammars
Indicates the presence of bad grammar. And when we say bad, we mean really, really bad.
Example:
mistic-night1992 collection

pun'ctuation
For those authors who think that exclamations points are safer in numbers, and who need to be told that full stops are for the ends of sentences.
Example:
Kneazle Luv

rage
For rage-inspiring fics: a sporfle has to be really out of the ordinary to merit this tag. Generally, they're fics that involve Oirish characters or mangle the English language beyond the point where even we could find it amusing.
Example: Bad things lead to love (Part One)

gaah
For fiction that's worse than usual.
Example: Pheonix Ashes

disturbing
For fiction that worries us.
Example: Tumbleweed

favourite!
The Sporfler's selections.
Example:Betrayal: Vampires

sporfle award
Marks any fiction that inspired an entry in the Sporfle Hall of Fame.
Example: The Legacy

songfic
Self-explanatory. Why you'd want to seek out songfics anyway, I don't know, but here's the tag just in case.
Example: Fallen

songness
For fiction containing songs - original songs written by the author, by the way. If you want to see Draco Malfoy rapping, or hear the Sorting Hat get abused once again, this is where to look.
Example: HP Song Parody

bad sexx
For teh smut!
Example: Memories and Dreams

collection
This is for the a Hundred-Day Celebrations and the inaugural post, my pre-Daily Sporfle collection.
Example: The Great Unknowns

bad dialogue
Hagrid-speak, saccharine love mush, and hilarious Death Eater invective all fall into this category, but let's face it - pretty much any dialogue that males its way into a post also qualifies.
Example: Incomplete

canon rape
You may see this teamed with the "rage" tag.
Example: The EllaFudge collection

neologisms
For authors who are so creative that they just can't find enough words in the English language to express themselves with.
Example: Jen Gose to Hogwarts

informative
Posts by the Sporflers which don't relate specifically to the day's feature. Like this one, for example!

mary-sue
For hideous (female) OCs, and any canon female who gets an equally hideous makeover/name-change/discovery of totally non-canon background. Check out pottersues for a more thorough definition of the term if you need one.
Example: False Witness Born Down on Me

taco show
Another Pottersues-born term: for when a male character gets a sex change. (To date, I don't think we've featured a story with the opposite event - a Magic Stick - but I'll add the tag when it happens.)
Example: ripples in a crimson pond

self-insert
When the main character is clearly a thinly-disguised version of the author. (Often teamed with the "mary-sue" tag.)
Example: TheAdventure to Howgarts

awful names
Again, they've got to be pretty awful before they merit this tag.
Example: Angel

gary-stu
The male equivalent of a Mary Sue. If a male character is disguised as having "got buff over the summer", or if there's some ridiculous claim made about Harry having gained muscles from playing Quidditch, you can be pretty certain that there's a Gary Stu in the offing.
Example: Kentucky Fried Pheonix

awful title
Self-explanatory, I feel.
Example: My Yerning Love Is Forever Eternal

repeat offender
For authors of more than one Sporfle feacher. This honour has mainly extended to HermoineAndraiaWeasley, but I think there'll be a few more soon.
YOUR ALL I NEED MY LOVE MY VALENTINE!

I've reached the middle of July with the tagging; hopefully I'll be able to complete the job soonish.