Thank you, AO3 users who stick an "F/F" tag on every single one of their fics

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on the very solid basis that they aren't AUs without any women.

I know that you guys don't get enough appreciation for your egregious bullshit, so in thanks, I will be posting a few hundred femslash drabbles and marking them "M/M" because at some point a goat is heard bleating.

This sound effect, obviously, implies the presence of Dirk Strider's robot. The robot is gay.

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People do that? Why.

That's even worse than my own personal bugbear, people who tag their Ancillary Justice fic m/f or f/f. NO. There is an "other" tag in the pairings field for a reason. It is for when "male" or "female" is not the appropriate term for one or more characters in the pairing, AS IS THE CASE WITH EVERY SHIP IN THIS FANDOM SO FAR, ARGH.

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It seems to happen in a bunch of fandoms, but it's a particularly big problem in Homestuck, in which 1) most of the characters are either bi or gay, so that if your fic's canon-compliant, then sure, technically there are lesbians in there, and 2) the fandom grew up on Tumblr and as such does not tag in ways that make sense on AO3.