Meta on Meta

[lea_hazel]

I have done as I had threatened and wrote an entire piece of meta on a fandom that doesn't exist for a source text that was never written. Behold:

The Three Types of Fanfic in Collar of the Damned Fandom.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Comments

[hagar_972]

That's a perfectly valid meta, and now I want the fandom.

(Also, thank you for the warning that these are tags for a fandom that doesn't exist. No confirmation as to what the tags are supposed to be is the sort of thing that makes wranglers cry.)

[lea_hazel]

Oh, sure. I imagine a brand new fandom tag is stressful enough without trying to find out the source text's medium and finding nothing.

[hagar_972]

A brand-new fandom tag is not much of a problem is:
* The source can be identifiable from the tag
* The source's native script is the Latin
* Complete information is available (title, author for books, year for movies)

Whenever one of the above is missing, it gets Interesting. (Fandom tags in scripts no wrangler can read in: fun!) Fandoms that appear to not exist make people fidgety, because you can never be sure it really doesn't exist unless the author declares it.