
Like a little matryoshka doll, Rose Lalonde has a subtag of its own, helpfully under the heading Subtags:Ī subtag also has the metatags of its metatag, so when I click on the works page for Rose, it will give me works tagged with Rose, works tagged with Rose Lalonde, AND works tagged with Doomed Timeline Rose Lalonde. That’s because Rose Lalonde is a subtag of Rose. However, when I look at the works page for Rose Lalonde, works tagged with “Rose” won’t turn up.

Rose Lalonde has the metatag Rose, which means that if I clicked on the works page for Rose, it would show me all works tagged “Rose” AND all works tagged “Rose Lalonde” (as well as the other Rose tags it’s a metatag of). At the end of the list of synonymous tags attached to the canonical, there’s the heading Metatags: The first and easiest to understand section is Tags with the same meaning, which will show you the tags that will redirect to the canonical tag if you click on their works pages. Let’s go back to the Rose Lalonde canonical landing page. An unfilterable tag will instead look like this:īut that’s not all you can tell from the landing page! I’m going to show you in an order that makes it easier to understand, not the order it shows up on the page, so bear with me. You can use it to filter works and to filter bookmarks.” means it’s a canonical tag and will turn up in the dropdown. The line “This tag belongs to the Character Category. We’ll use a character tag because that’s got all the components. But not all the things this page show you are intuitive, so (especially with the recent tag limit announcement) I’m going to use it to explain the relationships between tags. But if you then click on the name of the tag at the top of the works page, you get sent to the tag landing page, where the url looks like this.

That’s the page you get sent to when you click on a tag that’s used on a fic. Everyone is probably familiar with the works page of a tag, where the URL looks like this.
