Important Flight of the Heron announcement

[regshoe]

A partial victory is better than a total defeat!!!

It's still basically wrong, of course, and—very frustratingly!—it only partially solves the biggest practical problem with the first incorrect canonical, because it's still listed under J rather than F on the alphabetical fandom page. I hope that people will take the advice at the top of the page and search using ctrl+F rather than relying on the alphabetical list, as that will now succeed.

(I will not, needless to say, be changing my own tagging :P ).

...But some genuinely positive change has been achieved, and I do hope this enables more people looking for fic for this lovely book SHE SAID, IN THE SINGULAR to find it.

Comments

[ysilme]

Yay! :o)

[regshoe]

:)

[friendofthejabberwock]

Yay! That's the formatting that's used for another of my fandoms (The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir), which I had previously been wondering why they hadn't used for Flight of the Heron as a compromise. I don't think I have the Jacobite history knowledge to come up with an appropriate joke for this, but I have been trying to think of one. :D

[regshoe]

Consistency is not the practice here, I'm afraid :P —there are other fandoms set up in the way that would actually make sense for FotH and its sequels, with meta-tags and sub-tags, as well as Gideon the Ninth-style series. Who knows. This is definitely worth a 'yay', anyway :D

[luzula]

Congratulations! I've been just using whatever was the canonical version, but maybe I'll go your route and tag for just FotH...but OTOH, I do have several fics for GitN, for which the now current canonical tag would make good sense. At any rate I'll change to the new canonical.

[regshoe]

I think it's worth tagging FotH on what are just FotH fics—again thinking about new people who read FotH and go looking for fic, I can imagine someone seeing fics tagged 'trilogy' or 'series' and assuming they use material from/require knowledge of all the books.

[garonne]

Great news! Thanks so much to you and whichever tag wrangler got the change made!

[regshoe]

It is good news!