As someone who has witnessed old, established fandoms get completely erased under a wave of new content, I’d like to put this request out now as early as possible:
Can we all, please, use separate tags for “The Magnus Archives” (TMA) and “The Magnus Protocol” (TMP*) both here on tumblr and over on Ao3.
There will be some overlap, of course, but searching for TMA should turn up content about Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, and the old established set of characters, while searching for TMP should turn up content about our as-of-yet unnamed new civil servant protagonists and whoever shares the show with them.
I realize that people are going to want to keep using the TMA tags for both personal organization reasons as well as visibility, but I promise you, once content for the new show starts really picking up steam it’ll be easier on all of us if we have two separate tags to keep them straight.
[If we need an overarching umbrella tag, I’d suggest “The Magnus Universe” (TMU) to cover content related to the world as a whole rather than a specific show.]
*Edit: Some helpful folks have pointed out that “TMP” is already in use as a tag for Star Trek “The Motion Picture,” so perhaps a better alternative would be “TMAGP” so we don’t erase their fandom, either.
Since we’re a week out from the official release, it feels like a good time to circulate this again! The Ao3 tags seem to be sorted out, but I’ve noticed a lot of unrelated cross-tagging here on tumblr.
Remember: The Magnus Protocol (tmagp) and The Magnus Archives (tma) are different shows!
There will of course be some overlap, but in general, posts about Sam, Alice, et al. should be under tmagp. Posts about Jon, Martin, and the old gang should be under tma. You’re going to compare Gwendolyn Bouchard to Elias Bouchard? Feel free to tag both! But if you’re just talking about how much you love Gwen’s character, or reminiscing about Elias committing brutal pipe murder, it’s courteous to stick to just the tags for the relevant show.
(“The Magnus Pod” and “magpod” seem to be common umbrella tags, and may be more useful than “The Magnus Universe”)