Tagging guidelines

Tags are for making your prompt visible in searches. When adding tags to your prompt, keep that in mind; if it is unlikely to be useful for searches, then it may be better off in a different form or even omitted altogether. These tagging guidelines are to assist in tagging efficacy by providing a consistent and fair document to refer to when creating and searching for tags.

This document may be updated occasionally with changes to existing guidelines or additions regarding specific tag categories, so please check back now and again ti stay up to date. If you think any part needs clarifying or otherwise modified, please contact us via our twitter.

General Guidelines

In all cases, do not list all possible variants of the same item as tags. Pick one and stick to it. Further in these guidelines we elaborate further for specific namespaces, as well as providing examples. Part of this is for visual clarity, as trying to cover all possible variants of a name quickly leads to a lot of visual clutter on your prompt that can be avoided. We understand why one might want to do this, but our site has a tag-wrangling system in place that can automatically alias tags to standardized forms when they're added to a prompt or searched for in the directory. Via these aliases, listing variants becomes unnecessary.

Of course, tag-wrangling is not a perfect science, and people are fallible. If you encounter an awkward case of tag aliasing or tag parentage, please do let us know via our twitter, linked in the bottom bar of any page, and we'll try to resolve it as best we can. Just as well, if you have a suggestion for aliasing or parentage that might benefit prompt-makers and searches, also use the same channel to contact us.

In the case of fandom and character tags, if you are open to any fandom or character, simply tag "any" in that namespace. If you are looking for a nonfandom roleplay, tag "original" in the fandom namespace, and likewise for characters.

Content Type

You must pick the highest-level content type as is applicable to the content that may appear in your prompt and subsequent roleplay, according to your intended and communicated desires. In other words, if you note in the prompt that you're open to taking the roleplay in a direction that will contain extreme content, then you must label the prompt as extreme. If you only wish to cover sexual or violent material, then the appropriate of those content types will be used. If you intend to keep the roleplays that arise from the prompt as entirely SFW (safe-for-work) affairs, then label it safe. For this reason, we recommend being specific with the sort of roleplay want from your prompt.

All content types will have additional plot type tags one may choose to add as appropriate, while the extreme type in particular reveals additional specific content warnings that call for its use.

Plot types and content warnings

All:

• Fluff: Wholesome, chill, feel-good type of plot largley based on character interaction.
• Plot-driven: A goal-oriented story where characters can be cooperative or competitive.
• Shippy: Oriented toward exploring or playing out a relationship between two characters, be it budding or established.
• Angst: A story that should have some tense, serious emotions and likely some catharsis.

NSFW-Violence and Extreme:

• Combat-focused: Where the fight is the plot.

NSFW-Sexual and Extreme:

• Porn with plot: Intimacy with reason and purpose.
• Porn without plot: Intimacy without reason or purpose.

Extreme:

• Vore: The consumption or of another being, almost always whole. Usually a kink; typically (but not always) done orally. Hard Vore also requires the snuff tag.
• Non-con: Non-consent. Another word for rape, to be blunt. This includes ituations involving blackmail, sleeping or knocked-out subjects, or severe mind control elements.
• Dub-con: Dubious consent, for situations where explicit consent isn't given, but explicit nonconsent or discomfort isn't either. For situations involving mild intoxication, mild mind control elements, or whatnot.
• Incest: Sexual activity involving closely-related characters.
• Bestiality: Sexual activity involving a character and an animal. Sapient but otherwise physically feral animals still count for this warning.
• Snuff: Death occuring in any form.
• Gore: Description of severe injury and violence, or large ammounts of blood.
• Self-harm: Characters engaging in activities that are detrimental to one's health, with the goal of injury or death.
• Drugs/alcohol: Use of illicit or other mind-altering substances.
• Abuse: Physical, mental, or emotional harm routinely done by one character upon another.
• Bigotry: Racism, sexism, transphobia, or other form of prejudice or intolerance.
• Filth/Unsanitary themes: Focused description of urine, fecal matter, or other boddily substances. Also includes a focus on uncleanliness and the sensory description thereof.

Fandom Tags

We recommend using the official localized name of a piece of media when tagging it, if possible. Alises will be established for popular fandoms to assist in this. An example of such would be using "My Hero Academia" instead of "Boku no Hero Academia", "Hero Academia", "MHA", "BNHA", "HeroAca", etc.

In the cases where no official localized name exists, use the most popular transliteration available.

As mentioned before, use simply "any" for when any fandom is applicable. Also use "original" for when a nonfandom roleplay setting is desired.

Character Tags

As with fandom tags, use official localized names when possible. Character names should be of the form in their original culture whenever possible, e.g. names of Japanese characters ought to be ordered surname-first. Middle initials should only be used if they are either necessary to differentiate one character from another with a similar name from the same work, or if the middle initial is popularly included. Certain titles may be considered part of a character's popular name, such as Princess or Doctor, and should be used where such is the case. For other unusual name forms not mentioned here, use your best discretion.

Species may also be valid to input here, in the case of fantastical, bestial, or alien characters. That said, 'human' is typically not necessary to specify, unless it indicates a difference from a norm.

Gender tags of characters may be included, but see the gender tags section for specific recommended practice.

Simply use "any" when any character within specified fandoms are applicable. Also use "original" for when original characters are acceptable.

Other characteristics and/or roles in the prompt scenario may be used here, but try to be concise.

Gender Tags

Gender tags are, of course, optional. If you choose to include them, we recommend short-form/contracted versions when possible; e.g. "trans" for transgender, "nb" for nonbinary, and so on. Use these and more as feels relevant to your prompt.

Please note that certain fantasy/kink physiology tags should not be confused for any gender tags. There are separate and wholely different ideas being communicated by such tags, and mixing them is discouraged.

Additional Tags

Here, any more descriptive and searchable may be added to your prompt. Information like genre, setting, locations, themes, and other elements you wish to include in the roleplay.