Pluralstories nonhuman logging!

[lb_lee]

Sneak: I went through the pluralstories "nonhumans" tag, and I manually added in the catalog entries the various nonhumans represented! I had considered doing a tag family, but it would've rapidly gotten out of control, with a billion tags all with only one or two entries. (Also the thought of trying to squish them down makes me cry--like, have separate tags for angels, demons, lwa, mpungos, gods, and spirits, or compress them down to "spirits"? But what if someone is SPECIFICALLY looking for Vodoun works and want lwa specifically? Oh no!)

Now, if someone really wants to find, say, a pluralstory with robots, they can just search "robot" and get a dozen!

The only entry I couldn't do this with was System's Out! because it's really, REALLY long and an outside submission. (I also was kind of stumped by Soft-Pedaled because there were characters I couldn't really guess the species of or how to quantify them!) But it's a start, at least!

Comments

[lb_lee]

Sneak: I do have a “people” tag family that I think includes nonhumans, fictioneers, the dead, copies (AI versions, factives), and probably other stuff I don’t remember!

[talewisefellowship]

[Janusz]

Is fictioneer an alternative word for fictive?

[lb_lee]

Yeah, we nabbed it from Jasper Fforde's books since "fictive" can have weird fights over whether insourced folks count, and we just... didn't want to deal with it.

[talewisefellowship]

[Hikaru]

Yea I've not been liking the language of 'fictive' and have been straying away from it. fictioneer sounds better, but it might be the word 'fiction' itself is loaded for me. We like 'story' better so Janusz sometimes calls us his story friends.

not that that has anything to do with your categorization scheme, just talking about what's best for the fellowship.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: yeah, I felt like I really wanted a tag for exploring the realms of fiction (both people and worlds), as someone who really enjoys those stories! (Examples include Ib and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books, where his protagonist not only goes into books like Jane Eyre to save the story, but meets fictioneers of herself based on tell-all books written about her life!) I enjoy the exploration of fiction having its own independent life.

Fictioneer in normal English also means someone who writes copiously but badly so I also think it’s a funny word to use!