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So a while back I was discussing the due South-related "no beta we die like caribou" tag with Ride-4ever. When she first explained it, I'd never heard of it (and was highly amused) because...

( yes, I live under a rock )

Yesterday I saw another "no beta we die like..." tag (no beta we die like clone troopers) on a fic (a years-old Longmire fic), and I mused to Ride, "I wonder how many different 'no beta we die like...' tags there are on AO3? I'd like to find out..." and she said something like, "You should post it on DW or as fandom meta on AO3, if you do..."

And, well, here we are. I learned that the parent tag is Not Beta Read, and I had NO IDEA how many child "no beta we die like..." tags there were.

There are ~274 (we could quibble about some quite similar versions) unique-ish "we die like" tags under the "not beta read" parent tag!

ETA: And there are SPOILERS for major and minor character death, obvs!🙂


( Follow the cut for a list of every currently existing unique 'no beta we die like' tag on AO3 as of about midnight-ish Chicago time, which will no doubt change rapidly, if it hasn't already, being the moving target that AO3 tags are )

So, yeah: 247(ish) unique "no/not beta we die like" tags! That's hilarious, kooky, and fun... all things I love about fandom. And thank you, Ride-4ever, for suggesting I post this. It cracked me up and distracted me from some looming stresses. (Yes. Change is stressful. Even good changes!)

But I'm looking forward to the WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY because SNOW! Hopefully it won't be like the last much-ballyhooed Winter Weather Advisory in October, which teased us with promises of 6-12" snow... which turned out to be 2-3".

( why would anyone actually want that much snow? )

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