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How am I only just learning this!?

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[ID: a cropped screenshot of the AO3 Exclude filter section, reading "Other tags to exclude". "*/reader" and "*/you" have been selected. End ID.]

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Wait

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[ID: cropped screenshot of the ao3 include filter, reading "Other tags to include:" with "*/James "Bucky" Barnes" selected. /end ID]

IT WORKS

Is this new???? I've been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham...

mysteryteacup mysteryteacup

helpful info for those who need it

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a reply in the notes by @/tacobellebandit, replying to @/aliveandalsodead. The comment reads: “the asterisk (*) is a wildcard symbol. It means that whatever comes before "/you" or "/reader" is caught no matter what it is. And the slash (/) just indicates a ship. Character A/Reader for example. So in this example, AnyCharacter/Reader and AnyCharacter/You is filtered out”ALT

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

idontknowreallywhy idontknowreallywhy

Never occurred to me AO3 would be using Boolean…

Prefacing with an infinite wildcard (*) is intense on the database though… although I guess there are a fairly limited number of tags in the grand scheme of things.

Anyway - excellent!!! This will make things much quicker!

Posted 11th April 2025 with 44,312 notes
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At one point in Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Bowser Jr. announces an extremely large coin reward for catching Mario and Luigi, which appears to be simply a random number to Western audiences.

However, this is actually intended to be a pun using goroawase, a type of Japanese phonetic matching, to sound like a sentence when spoken aloud. Different digits each have several ways they can be pronounced for the purposes of goroawase, but with a certain pronunciation, the number spells out "Bowser is the best".

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Posted 11th April 2025 with 3,582 notes
#OHHHHH IT'S A GOROAWASE PUN i should have figured#i knew the number was too specific to Not be completely random but it just never occured to me that it was that#m&l