Though I have to admit I've mostly just tagged my DW fic with "Doctor Who" - I figured because both the Classic Who and the New Who tag encompassed a lot of different eras, everyone was looking for pairings or characters anyway ...
Hmm, but if you only tag it with "Doctor Who" then it doesn't show up for people who are looking through either of the actual fandom tags (ie. Doctor Who (1963) or Doctor Who (2005)). I usually go to the fandom first before I start searching for characters or relationships, so fics tagged only with the Doctor Who tag don't show up for me at all, until I look at the writer's profile for some other reason and notice the Doctor Who fics they've got. Something to take into consideration...
I only search New Who fics by filtering by characters or relationships, because it's such a huge fandom I'd never get anywhere if I didn't. But Classic Who is more modest-sized. While I have a few relationships I particularly look for (and I've favorited those tags so I just click on them from the front page), there are actually quite a few characters I enjoy reading, and especially, I like so much gen fic in that fandom as well, with a whole variety of different character combinations, and some gen fic doesn't even get tagged with the relationship tag, just the characters. So I like to browse through the fandom tag every now and then to see fic that I haven't got around to searching for - well, I would like to if it wasn't ingested with Ten/Rose and Twelve/Clara. Even just in the Second Doctor era I'd have so many different ways I'd need to search, because I love the Doctor and all the five companions of that era plus some of the guest characters, and even when I ship some characters I also like gen with them, and you can see how it grows quickly from there.
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Date: 2019-03-24 07:18 pm (UTC)Hmm, but if you only tag it with "Doctor Who" then it doesn't show up for people who are looking through either of the actual fandom tags (ie. Doctor Who (1963) or Doctor Who (2005)). I usually go to the fandom first before I start searching for characters or relationships, so fics tagged only with the Doctor Who tag don't show up for me at all, until I look at the writer's profile for some other reason and notice the Doctor Who fics they've got. Something to take into consideration...
I only search New Who fics by filtering by characters or relationships, because it's such a huge fandom I'd never get anywhere if I didn't. But Classic Who is more modest-sized. While I have a few relationships I particularly look for (and I've favorited those tags so I just click on them from the front page), there are actually quite a few characters I enjoy reading, and especially, I like so much gen fic in that fandom as well, with a whole variety of different character combinations, and some gen fic doesn't even get tagged with the relationship tag, just the characters. So I like to browse through the fandom tag every now and then to see fic that I haven't got around to searching for - well, I would like to if it wasn't ingested with Ten/Rose and Twelve/Clara. Even just in the Second Doctor era I'd have so many different ways I'd need to search, because I love the Doctor and all the five companions of that era plus some of the guest characters, and even when I ship some characters I also like gen with them, and you can see how it grows quickly from there.