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Old 11-04-2015, 03:21 PM   #708
DavidTC
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu View Post

What sites use '/' for romantic ships and '&' for platonic? I don't recall seeing that before. A few example story URLs would also help.
Well, I can just find AO3 ones, like http://archiveofourown.org/works/2824976

Some sites don't do friendship relationships, and some just do *all* relationships the same way.

But I'm pretty certain *if* they are distinguished, that's how they usually are distinguished. / has a long tradition going back to the origins of fanfic for relationships, and & seems like an obvious choice of grouping two characters that isn't that. (Although I wouldn't be surprised to see +.)

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Originally Posted by JimmXinu View Post
I want to explore the sites that use that a bit before making any decisions. What happens in cases where it's common to have a '/' as part of the name, such as superhero fandoms?
I'm not sure of this question. How is this handled now?

If the site uses / as a separator, and also puts / in names, then sort_ship simply can't work at all, from what I can tell. That's not changed with what I suggested. (I see no solution for that silliness at all.)

If they use / in names and *something else* like | as a separator, well, that sounds like a job for regular expressions changing things going in, and then changing them later. (My problem is I've go *two* different types and I'm trying to end up with two different types. If I just had &, I'd turn them into /, and then back to &.)

Or alternately you could let people list the separators in an option, which would let them list | for that site, and & and / for AO3, and so on.
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