Everything Left Unsaid

It occured to me that there are a lot of new members on the list compared to a few months ago, so I thought I'd post an update on the Tales of Suspense site.

For those who don't know, seanchai & I run an automated archive for Steve/Tony fic (my role in the whole thing mostly consists of setting up metadata tags and uploading our own fic -- she's the one who does the code, web design, and all the real work). If you want your fic to be hosted on the site, all you have to do is create an account for youself and upload it.

For everybody who already knows all of this, there are also a couple of new features that have been added over the past few months. First and most importantly, we now have a functional gallery! Due to coding issues (the archive and galllery are two seperate site templates, with a bridge between them), you have to log into the gallery seperately in order to upload art, but your same old unsername and password will apply there, too. We pay for the webspace, so NC-17 art is just as welcome as G-rated icon manips.

We also have metadata tags! [/librarian geekery] That is, we now have "universe," "genre," and "warning" fields on the upload page that you can use to label your fic. You can also click on a tag (when browing the site) in order to see all the fic tagged "movie-verse," or "PWP," or whatever, just like on delicious. Ultimate awesome would be a dialogue box that let you search for specific combinations of tags (like "PWP + kink!") but alas, the software to do that would be way too complicated.

( click here to see a list of the tagging options, with explanations )

Again, all tags are optional except for the "character death: OTP," warning tag (and using the "non-con" tag at least for rape fic would be a nice thing to do for both fans with non-con squicks and fans with non-con kinks).

And since we're not exactly overloaded with tagging options yet, if there's a tag that you'd like to have (your fic doesn't fit properly into any of the genres, you have an ironclad squick that's not on the list, you have a bullet-proof kink that's not on the list, etc.) comment here, and I'll add it to the site.

Also, a question: What do people think of the idea of adding either a meta section where people can upload meta, or a page with links to meta posts (since meta often includes hyperlinks and images, and further discussion in comments) to the site?