Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. Discussion, readthroughs, fic recs, art, general fannish stuff.
Tagging
So, we have 50 tags at our disposal.
- Are there any tags in the current set-up that you don't think you'd need?
- What type of tags do you think you would need?
Essentially, do you think discussion would be more about individual books (how the tags are set up) or places + characters + other stuff? What would be the most useful and/or appealing solution for you? Are there any fic-art-meta-etc type tags that I've overlooked?




I'm not normally a very organised person, but off the top of my head - tags for the characters and some for general description like "polls" and "rereads"? I'm thinking of someone who comes in later and wants to find out what we've been saying, my perception of Vorkosigan fans is that we seem to be sectioned up by which characters we like best or are most interested in Seeing More Of. And finding or encouraging more fanfic, so if a year from now we have fics or links to fics someone could search for stuff about the character they like. My suggestion would be - maybe 20 tags for characters and save a handful for future uses (like, maybe we start doing events and you want to tag them, like a prompt fest).
Nodnod. Which 20ish characters do you think should get tags?
Maybe look at the top 20 characters who have stories on ao3?
Getting the top 10 is easy:
Miles Vorkosigan
Aral Vorkosigan
Gregor Vorbarra
Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
Simon Illyan
Ivan Vorpatril
Alys Vorpatril
Piotr Pierre Vorkosigan
Ezar Vorbarra
Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan
Doing stuff like -"Miles Vorkosigan" brings up Byerly Vorrutyer and Duv Galeni, and with some digging, Laisa and Kareen Vorbarra. So, what character tags do you think are missing from that? Is there anyone who's popular in meta but not fic? Someone who's tagged just a teensy bit less often than Ekaterin (but also in all the same fics as one of the top 10)?