Hi! Thanks for the response and for letting me know.
I'll admit this is a really disappointing answer to receive, because as the anon above me mentioned, I don't believe most people offer a Solo: Character tag with any kind of expectation of creating self-cest.
I also don't really understand where mods are coming from in terms of interpreting self-cest as necessarily 'including prompts within relationship-field tags outside of WB tags'; how is it any more of a prompt than any other ship tag? Some ships are more difficult to achieve than others, but I don't really see how a selfcest ship is any different from, say, any rare pair ship who may not have met canonically and don't really have a canonical reason to meet? Both types would probably require either a certain amount of buildup or setting/background changes. In that way I view selfcest ships as pretty much the same as other "arguably illogical" rare pairs, so it just seems like an odd distinction to draw if rare pairs are generally allowed.
Also, why is there a 'must canonically exist' policy for self-cest only when the tagset allows Original Characters, which obviously don't canonically exist?
I really hope that mods can reconsider this policy - I'm not really following the justification for banning it, since I don't see how it includes a prompt, and unless I was also interested in the actual Solo part of a Solo character tag, it would be extremely bad faith of me to request the Solo tag for self-cest only.
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Date: 2021-08-07 09:29 pm (UTC)I'll admit this is a really disappointing answer to receive, because as the anon above me mentioned, I don't believe most people offer a Solo: Character tag with any kind of expectation of creating self-cest.
I also don't really understand where mods are coming from in terms of interpreting self-cest as necessarily 'including prompts within relationship-field tags outside of WB tags'; how is it any more of a prompt than any other ship tag? Some ships are more difficult to achieve than others, but I don't really see how a selfcest ship is any different from, say, any rare pair ship who may not have met canonically and don't really have a canonical reason to meet? Both types would probably require either a certain amount of buildup or setting/background changes. In that way I view selfcest ships as pretty much the same as other "arguably illogical" rare pairs, so it just seems like an odd distinction to draw if rare pairs are generally allowed.
Also, why is there a 'must canonically exist' policy for self-cest only when the tagset allows Original Characters, which obviously don't canonically exist?
I really hope that mods can reconsider this policy - I'm not really following the justification for banning it, since I don't see how it includes a prompt, and unless I was also interested in the actual Solo part of a Solo character tag, it would be extremely bad faith of me to request the Solo tag for self-cest only.