query esp for AO3 tag wranglers

[alexseanchai]

Assuming AO3 exists in Miraculous Ladybug land, what do you think would be the canonical fandom tag for RPF featuring Our Heroes? "Miraculous Heroes RPF"? "Heroes of Paris RPF"? "Miraculous Paris RPF"? Help…

Also, assuming a public statement such as the following, what would then happen to the canonical character tags?

And so much of what's wrong in our lives could stop with just a few words. 'My name is Clara Martin and I'm Ladybug.' People would get it then. 'My name is Léo Bernard and I'm Chat Noir.' People would know what our real priorities are. What our priorities have to be. Clara's not ditching commitments because she's unreliable. I'm not avoiding commitments because I'm irresponsible. If we could tell our loved ones who we are, they would understand.

For the record, those are not our real names. Those are two of the most popular given names for French teenagers like us, paired with two of France's most common surnames. Please do not harass any actual Parisians named Clara Martin or Léo Bernard. Whoever's wrangling the Archive Of Our Own tags for [Miraculous Paris RPF], though, feel free to pipe those onto our canonical character tags, since that's the closest to canon you're getting.

(Someone made the mistake of saying at a live press conference that Ladybug is insufficiently competent for the task. Chat Noir went crashed the press conference.)

Comments

[melannen]

Honestly, RPF tags are pretty fluid. If there's an established in-universe term for them/their fandom, AO3 would use that, and if there isn't, there's no real formula for how AO3 names a RPF fandom like that*, as long as it's clear what it is, so any of those would be fine. But it would also work fine to just say "whoever's wrangling our AO3 tags, though, feel free", I think.

*sadly we don't have enough Superhero RPF on the archive to have specific guidelines for it, so it would fall under "miscellaneous RPF, just don't be ambiguous". (Although I suspect if we did, we'd have a policy not to pipe real names unless the people are voluntarily out, and that press conference would lead to a VERY LONG mailing list thread arguing about whether that statement counts as them being voluntarily out under those names...)

[alexseanchai]

*nodnod* 😺

thanks

[silveradept]

I have no knowledge of the process of wrangling, but I'm guessing it would start out as "Ladybug and Chat Noir RPF" and might stay that way for as long as all the other heroes are essentially guest star party members.

It might end up as the RPF of the most popular comic series about Ladybug and Chat Noir, on the idea that the Archive would be faster to tag and sort the fictional property than the real people, and would attach the real people in relation to their fictionalized selves.

[alexseanchai]

makes sense!

[fred_mouse]

Why not just 'Miraculous RPF'? Because I'm pretty sure that regardless of where the teams are from, sports ones are 'football RPF' and 'hockey RPF'.

[alexseanchai]

Pittsburgh Penguins RPF is a thing even though it is, in fact, hockey RPF, and there may be Miraculouses active places other than Paris—probably are, actually, canon just hasn't informed us of this.

[fred_mouse]

I was kind of assuming that there would be Miraculouses active elsewhere! Otherwise, the 'Paris' in your question would have been redundant, no?

And I don't think I've run into team specific RPF. Or I haven't been looking. I am... avoiding going looking, because that way lies missed deadlines.

[alexseanchai]

okay so apparently I was confusing myself bc Pittsburgh Penguins RPF was at one point Yuletide-nominated even though the most specific canonical fandom tag currently available (who knows about previously) is Men's Hockey RPF

but if there's Miraculouses active in idk San Francisco, RPF about those wielders and RPF about the Miraculous wielders active in Paris is…not likely to have much overlap

[fred_mouse]

That last is true. And yet, the analogy still stands, because in the days where I was reading through the most recent stuff in posting order, the Hockey RPF could skip across as five teams in as many stories, with minimal to no overlap.

And it occurs to me, I'm not actually attempting to get you to change your mind/use my idea/influence you. I'm enjoying discussing the possibilities. Because pedantry is the family sport. But it might not be reading like that to you.

[alexseanchai]

we're good

anyway if Paris is the only place the world knows there are Miraculous wielders (and never mind where all whatever other wielders may be), which is a worldbuilding question to explore at Not 1:30a, then "Miraculous RPF" is gonna be the thing anyway, and Paris will be understood.