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I want to wish a happiest of birthdays, to our magnificent @BronxWench May the day be wonderful and full of delight. And here’s to another full circle around the sun. All gifts in the form of shimmering gold and very sparsely clothed pretties that we may have in our possession, especially of the impish and the elvish variety, will be happily accepted. Gold will be kept, but pretties will be returned, unscathed and very exhausted.

There are two options. If the character is central to the story, even if they die offstage, so to speak, I‘d recommend the Major Character Death (MCD) tag. If the character is not central to the story, you could use the Minor Character Death (MiCD) tag, to alert readers to the death of a character without having them pull their hair out over losing one of the stars of the canon.

I hate having to write “storyline calendars” for fanfiction, especially when the original author could care less. But not writing the calendars is even worse. (Sigh.)

Just curious about the major character death tag. I have a story in which a character death happens in between two chapters. It’s mentioned but it’s not necessarily part of the story. The character does appear in a chapter of the story. Basically, between the two chapters is about a year of canon in which the character died. Should I be putting the tag on my story?

After posting i realized, i'd like add more tags and change the rating from adult to adult +, now i can easily change the story rating or category from the drop down menu, but it looks like Content tags doesn't have a similar feature. I've tried to manually enter the tags using their abbreviations and then separate them myself, but that doesn't seem to work. If if leave the content tags as is and just change the story rating that won't load either. I looked at the FAQ, but that doesn't have anything for this either. For now i have put the story information and content warning in the Author's Note before the story.

Good to know! I'll be sure to be more careful about it in the future then.

At the moment, the ability to add tags after posting a story isn’t working. Our coder is aware of it, and she’s working on it. Hopefully, we can get this working again, but in the meantime, using the Author’s Note to add tags is perfect.

Hi, @BronxWench and all. Third Time’s a Soul Bond is a “fix-it,” time-travel, etc. Delores Umbridge “Darwins out” in Chapter 1. However, The Yankee’s Nephew and the Philosopher’s Stone, which might get a title change if I run the entire “HP Hogwarts Experience” into the one story, is actually a crossover between my original story Riding the Lincoln Way, plus every JKR and licensee story that takes place between 1975-2021. I’ve already “gotten rid of” ten major Lincoln Way characters, plus Peter Pettegrew, who is a key minor character in Hogwarts Mystery, above and beyond what he won’t be around to do when Harry finally makes it to school. I’m also only up to Chapter 11 on Yankee’s Nephew, and Harry isn’t quite three years old. I did manage to ‘save’ three Lincoln Way characters who in Lincoln Way died off-screen. Third Time has the MiCD tag. I forgot to (have added by you when you fixed it last time) either MiCD or MCD to Yankee’s Nephew. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, and assistance.

Hi, Deadman and all. That is a brilliant question, and I’m sure that you aren’t the only one who needs to know. While I haven’t “killed off” any of the Golden Trio in any of my HP crossovers, I have killed off a villain or few ‘early’ in both of the big ones. And, I might even un-kill a ghost or few before I’m done, too. @BronxWench? Thanks in advance.