Hi! So I've just made a tag directory for easier navigation through my OC collection, and I was wondering: how do you guys tag your characters? Which kind of traits do you tag? Which ones would you never tag? Do you have any "joke" tags? Do you use tags a lot or not at all?
I thought it could be interesting to share our ways of using this functionality, maybe it will give some ideas or inspiration to TH members who might be struggling with tags!
I tag mine based on
I make it clear for myself to only tag:
- Gender (Male, Female, Nonbinary, and Genderfluid)
- Age (Child 1-12, Adult 18-49, Elder 50, and ImmortalAgeless)
- If they are adopted
- What stories they are in
- What universe they are in
- and lastly what Generation they are (When I made them. I make characters with a friend of mine named C-V-I-S (Malachi) and he lets me include mine and his characters into the same universe so we oftentimes log into each other's toyhouse and adjust each other's tags. So far I've had the restraint from adding age, gender, and adopted tags to his characters. but anyways, generation tags mean:
Gen 1. The OGs (OCs I made before I met Malachi.)
Gen 2. Development (OCs I made as soon as I met Malachi.)
Gen 3. Expansion (OCs I made after I met Malachi. Most of these were made in early 2019)
Gen 4. Touch-ups (OCs made in late 2019, around September.)
and finally Gen 5. Getting Serious (Ocs made from two months ago until now.)
I tag the
-gender (male, female, nonbinary, genderqueer etc)
-species (canine, witch, god, alien etc)
-theme (clown, posessed, vent oc)
-ability/ies (mostly elemental magic)
I recently thought making tags for minors and adults as well.
so what i usually do is:
I usually go by year created, species, identity, source material/type of character, my boundaries on NSFW content, maybe an aesthetic or two, and the obligatory forever home tag.
I have a tag directory on my front character page! The main ones are listed below and as to keep it short, I only tag stuff that I have (enough) characters for (eg. I don't have many gender identities or sexualities because I don't have OCs that have those identities);
I also have misc tags that I use like fandom tags, certain aesthetics, sub-species but I don't add them to the directory as to avoid clogging it ^^
Too many tags bothers me, so I have about only 2 (not counting base tags)
I give tags based on what universe I've decided to put them in
Or
How badly I'd like them drawn.
Im working on a directory at the moment, i usually tag by:
⇀ status (active, retired, sona etc...)
⇀ gender
⇀ species
⇀ powers/abilities
⇀ fandom/series/universe
⇀ (occasionally) aesthetic/theme
along with joke and other miscellaneous tags, though those
aren't included in the directory because i see no point in it.
I'll maybe add age range and sexuality later on.
To put it mildly, I am obsessed with putting everything "on the shelves.", because I am incredibly annoyed by the mess and I just like to sort information and statistics, which tags help well. Each character on my page has a tag with the name of their folders, fandom, species, sometimes occepation, and whether they needs a redesign/name/reference :_)
i don't use many tags... my tags are humanoid, anthro, fave, not lf art, wip, and a couple of fandoms. i have a lot more characters on my second account but i think the only tag i use for them is "former main." now i want to tag them as humanoid/anthro/etc too though. i might like to use more tags. idk