For Anyone Who Hasn't Seen Them Before, Hidden Search Operators Are Handy Tricks You Can Use When You're

Edit of xkcd comic 2501: Average Familiarity. Two characters are speaking with each other.
The conversation now reads, "Hidden Search Operators are second nature to us, so it's easy to forget that the average user probably only knows summary: string and expected_number_of_chapters: 1. And OTP:true, of course. Of course."
The caption underneath the comic now reads, "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, AO3 volunteers wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their site."

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

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dragonflyarou

8 months ago

*September 1st on Tumblr*

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dragonflyarou

5 months ago

I once got road rash down my entire front leg before smashing into a car, and yesterday I was literally screaming "HOLY SHIT" zooming downhill on my longboard, so I thought I'd memorialize all the skaters who've suffered as I have suffered.

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dragonflyarou

1 year ago

And that's when Lambert learned that God's can have spouses and ideas were born

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dragonflyarou

1 year ago

The fainting couch

Back with my more rarijack nonsense. This time I decided to add a ship meme to make my headcanons known lol

I think Applejack would be very affectionate in most ways since she had to deal with loss very young and has learned to not take anyone for granted. Rarity doesn't mind this at all, she loves the attention.

Rarity's main love language would be gift giving, she'd make all sort of handmade things for Applejack and she would treasure every single one of them.

In my mind the got together during season 4 and are basically an established relationship for the episodes to come after.