A favor request for those of you who use AO3

[hopefulnebula]

Hi all. The other day, I was getting ready to post a new fic I'd written in the Alphas fandom to Archive of Our Own when I realized that there wasn't a "Canon Autistic Character" tag there yet. Not even on my previous fics about Gary.

I've since fixed this, and one other person has tagged a fic of hers with the tag (technically she was first, because I bemoaned the lack of the tag in #yuletide before posting), but according to the Rule of Three, the tag can't be made canonical until a third person tags a fic with it.

Canonizing the tag would make it much easier to search for it on AO3, and it would allow "Canon Autistic Character" to show up in the autocomplete dropdown when people tag their fics.

So what I'm asking is: if any of you have previously posted fics about canon autistic characters on AO3, or if you're transferring old fics to it, or if you're planning on posting something new that could be given the tag: could you please tag it? I will love you forever and maybe give you kudos or a cookie or something.

Thank you!

Comments

[jadelennox]

done - I've labeled a couple of my stories about Abed Nadir on community as "canon autistic character."

(the canonicity is somewhat in dispute; at one point a character says "and you have Asperger's!" as an insult, and in the most recent episode another character speaking to Abed continually referred to everyone other than the two of them as "neurotypicals". And at most he has mild TV Asperger's or a variant of something very close to neurotypical on the autism spectrum. But that's TV autism for you.)

[hopefulnebula]

That's close enough for me! Thank you! :D

[katiemariie]

Added the tag to my Abed fics, as well.

[katwithallergies]

You're in luck :) I have a Top Gear series about James May and his probable Aspergers.

[hopefulnebula]

Eee, thank you! They've already canonized it but more works with it = better! :D

[kaberett]

Thank you for doing this!

[hopefulnebula]

You're welcome! I was tagging my most recent Gary fic, and it didn't appear in the dropdown and I realized it was because not even *I* had used the tag before. Which was sad.

Even a tiny bit more positive visibility is great! :)