Tips for using tags and searches
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fth2020offeringsThe easiest way to find the auction(s) you want to bid on is to use our tags!
Finding Your Fandom
If you’re looking for a particular fandom, you can find the full FTH tag list here. If it has a tag, it means that the fandom is on offer this year! The tags are arranged in alphabetical order, but you can also ctrl+F (or command+F for macs) to search for the name within the taglist. Your fandom not listed at all? Try Fandom: Any to find people who will create in literally any fandom you want.
A few things to keep in mind as you search for your fandom: It's often better to search for one or two key words than an entire fandom name, in case you call it something slightly different from what we called it. Some fandoms had to be abbreviated to fit under the character limit, so search for common abbreviations as well. Remember that while we don't keep the "The" in front of all fandom names (it's a bit random, sorry), if it is there the fandom will be filed under T. All bands are now under the Bandom category.
How nested subfandoms work: We changed up how we let people sign up within large fandoms this year. Some fandoms with many branches were broken up into subfandoms, and anyone who chose that fandom would then choose one or more subfandoms. You can see this reflected in the nesting on the tags page (a few write-in and other fandoms wound up nested, as well). In all of these cases, the auctions are tagged with both the subfandoms chosen and the larger fandom. So if you're looking specifically for Captain America auctions, check MCU: Captain America (along with MCU: Any, MCU: Avengers, and MCU: All MCU Movies). If you're looking for everyone offering MCU of any kind, look under the main MCU tag, where you will find everyone who chose at least one MCU subfandom. If you're looking for people who are offering to create in a subfandom you don't see listed, or a combination of subfandoms others aren't offering, you should look at MCU: Any and Fandom: Any.
If you’re looking for a particular creator, keep scrolling down the taglist until you get to the username: tag category. Within this tag you will find all of the 2020 FTH creators, who are tagged with the preferred pseudonym that they provided. Similarly, instead of scrolling down till you find the creator you’re after, you can simply ctrl+F (or command+F for macs) the name once you are in the taglist to find whether they have joined FTH this year or not. If you do not see someone who you think should be listed, check with them in case they gave us a different pseudonym than you know them by.
Types of Fanworks
All posts are tagged according to the type of fanwork being offered: fanfiction, fan art, podfic, video, fan labor, or other digital fanwork. If you scroll beneath the fandoms on the tag page (or just ctrl-F the word "fanwork") you'll find the fanwork tags.
Fan art and fan labor are also now broken down by the subtype(s) the creator is offering! You can look just at everyone offering book covers, for example, or culture picking. Just like with subfandoms, you can still see everyone offering every subtype when you click on the fan art or fan labor tags. You can combine these subtype tags with fandom tags just like the other fanwork types, as explained in the next section!
If you’re looking for a specific category of auctions such as E-rated Harry Potter fanfiction, or for auctions in multiple fandoms, for example fanart that is being offered in the Supernatural fandom the Doctor Who fandom, try filtering by multiple tags. Dreamwidth does enable searching in this way; the trick is to separate the individual tags in the URL with commas. For example, let’s search for particular Star Wars auctions:
The ?mode=all option is necessary for making those last three combinations work. With it, you will get only auctions that are podfics and rated explicit and in the Star Wars fandoms. Without it, you will get all explicit auctions plus all Star Wars auctions plus all podfic auctions. Using it without ?mode=all finds everything with one tag or the other. This can be useful if you are a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and Teen Wolf, as it means that you can look through all the offers for both fandoms without having to switch tag search. However, it is important to use the option if you are trying to narrow your search to certain parameters.
New: If you're interested in discovering new creators, check the Golden Needle tag to find auctions that haven't been bid on yet!
Let us know if you have any questions! If you are a creator and you believe your auction has been mistagged (or contains any other errors), please email us at fandomtrumpshate@gmail.com.
How our tag system works:
Finding Your Fandom
If you’re looking for a particular fandom, you can find the full FTH tag list here. If it has a tag, it means that the fandom is on offer this year! The tags are arranged in alphabetical order, but you can also ctrl+F (or command+F for macs) to search for the name within the taglist. Your fandom not listed at all? Try Fandom: Any to find people who will create in literally any fandom you want.
A few things to keep in mind as you search for your fandom: It's often better to search for one or two key words than an entire fandom name, in case you call it something slightly different from what we called it. Some fandoms had to be abbreviated to fit under the character limit, so search for common abbreviations as well. Remember that while we don't keep the "The" in front of all fandom names (it's a bit random, sorry), if it is there the fandom will be filed under T. All bands are now under the Bandom category.
How nested subfandoms work: We changed up how we let people sign up within large fandoms this year. Some fandoms with many branches were broken up into subfandoms, and anyone who chose that fandom would then choose one or more subfandoms. You can see this reflected in the nesting on the tags page (a few write-in and other fandoms wound up nested, as well). In all of these cases, the auctions are tagged with both the subfandoms chosen and the larger fandom. So if you're looking specifically for Captain America auctions, check MCU: Captain America (along with MCU: Any, MCU: Avengers, and MCU: All MCU Movies). If you're looking for everyone offering MCU of any kind, look under the main MCU tag, where you will find everyone who chose at least one MCU subfandom. If you're looking for people who are offering to create in a subfandom you don't see listed, or a combination of subfandoms others aren't offering, you should look at MCU: Any and Fandom: Any.
Finding a Creator
If you’re looking for a particular creator, keep scrolling down the taglist until you get to the username: tag category. Within this tag you will find all of the 2020 FTH creators, who are tagged with the preferred pseudonym that they provided. Similarly, instead of scrolling down till you find the creator you’re after, you can simply ctrl+F (or command+F for macs) the name once you are in the taglist to find whether they have joined FTH this year or not. If you do not see someone who you think should be listed, check with them in case they gave us a different pseudonym than you know them by.
Types of Fanworks
All posts are tagged according to the type of fanwork being offered: fanfiction, fan art, podfic, video, fan labor, or other digital fanwork. If you scroll beneath the fandoms on the tag page (or just ctrl-F the word "fanwork") you'll find the fanwork tags.
Fan art and fan labor are also now broken down by the subtype(s) the creator is offering! You can look just at everyone offering book covers, for example, or culture picking. Just like with subfandoms, you can still see everyone offering every subtype when you click on the fan art or fan labor tags. You can combine these subtype tags with fandom tags just like the other fanwork types, as explained in the next section!
Searching Multiple Tags
If you’re looking for a specific category of auctions such as E-rated Harry Potter fanfiction, or for auctions in multiple fandoms, for example fanart that is being offered in the Supernatural fandom the Doctor Who fandom, try filtering by multiple tags. Dreamwidth does enable searching in this way; the trick is to separate the individual tags in the URL with commas. For example, let’s search for particular Star Wars auctions:
- https://fth2020offerings.dreamwidth.org/
tag/fandom:+star+wars = all of the auctions that are offering any sort of Star Wars fanwork. - https://fth2020offerings.dreamwidth.org/
tag/fandom:+star+wars:+prequel+trilogy, fandom:+star+wars:+rogue+one = all of the auctions that are specifically offering either the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy or Rogue One. - https://fth2020offerings.dreamwidth.org/
tag/fandom:+star+wars,fanwork:+podfic? mode=all = all of the podfics on offer in any of the Star Wars fandoms. (Podfic and Star Wars.) - https://fth2020offerings.dreamwidth.org/
tag/fandom:+star+wars,rating:+e? mode=all = all of the explicit-rated fanworks on offer in any of the Star Wars fandoms. (E-rated and Star Wars) - https://fth2020offerings.dreamwidth.org/
tag/fandom:+star+wars,fanwork:+podfic, rating:+e?mode=all = all auctions that are offering podfic and rated explicit and being offered in any of the Star Wars fandoms.
The ?mode=all option is necessary for making those last three combinations work. With it, you will get only auctions that are podfics and rated explicit and in the Star Wars fandoms. Without it, you will get all explicit auctions plus all Star Wars auctions plus all podfic auctions. Using it without ?mode=all finds everything with one tag or the other. This can be useful if you are a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and Teen Wolf, as it means that you can look through all the offers for both fandoms without having to switch tag search. However, it is important to use the option if you are trying to narrow your search to certain parameters.
New: If you're interested in discovering new creators, check the Golden Needle tag to find auctions that haven't been bid on yet!
Let us know if you have any questions! If you are a creator and you believe your auction has been mistagged (or contains any other errors), please email us at fandomtrumpshate@gmail.com.
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