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Archive of Our Own — the fanfiction archive built by fans, run by volunteers, tagged with more precision than any library, and the winner of a Hugo Award in 2019. The record's entry for the site, and for 'AO3 tags' as a genre of joke about specificity.

A post listing someone's wrongs, with evidence, for the community to judge — the callout post — from Tumblr fandoms into every platform. The record's entry for the trial by thread, and for the receipts folder that every callout requires.

The Tumblr dashboard, shortened — 'my dash' — as the feed of the platform that had feelings about everything, and 'dash' as a place: 'this is all over my dash'. The record's entry for the timeline of the other website, and for the era when it mattered.

'The discourse' — the argument everyone is having today, named with an ironic definite article since 2015, and the record's most-used word in its own definitions. The record's entry for the argument as a weather system, and an admission.

Fiction written by fans about someone else's characters — fanfic — from 1960s zines into the internet's largest body of writing, and the record's entry for the form that trained a generation of novelists and is still apologised for. It shouldn't be.

Something you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that made private reading a public position.

'This hellsite' — the affectionate name for any platform by the people who cannot leave it, first Tumblr, then Twitter, and the record's entry for the love that is expressed as a complaint. Nobody has ever called a site they left a hellsite.

One true pairing. The couple you would defend to a stranger, and have.