What is the deal with 'Sexy Times with WangXian'??

ohhhhh man my guy, what isn’t the deal with sexy times with wangxian

it’s this fic, which as far as I can tell is your bog standard post-canon wangxian live in cloud recesses and have a lot of torrid sex fic. the extraordinary thing about it, which you will quickly notice if you click that link, is the amount of tags.

The additional tags alone (excluding pairings and character tags, which are also pretty bulky) are WELL OVER A THOUSAND WORDS (1,449 as of this writing, in fact). the tags by themself are longer than some fics. and this thing has been constantly, constantly at the top of the wangxian page, the MDZS page, and the CQL page, because it’s 269 chapters and the author wouldn’t stop updating it. (completed, it is over a billion words.)

now, there are a lot of fics with big tagsets, although not this big, and they’re usually this type of fic - porny longrunners where the author feels the need to tag every individual sex act. but the tags on sexy times with wangxian are…beyond that. aside from what i can only assume are some fairly bizarre fetishes (”Penis Measuring”, “Talking Vagina”, “Heartbeat Kink”, “Blow Jobs With Teeth”), there’s a lot of very mundane stuff, thing you wouldn’t usually tag. other tags include: “Flowers”, “Campfires”, “Mangos”, “Pants”, and “Sleep.”

might the story include all these things? who knows, it’s 269 chapters of not-good porn, so I haven’t read it. but i feel like we can agree this is excessive.

it wasn’t always thus - as far as I can tell, there were originally way less (though still a lot) of tags, again, mostly sex acts. a couple people commented to say the size of the tags made browsing frustrating, some politely, some not so much. the author, someone by the handle of virtual1979, took umbrage with this, and eventually pulled the charming move of adding more and more tags out of pure spite, turning into a vicious cycle where the more tags got added, the more angry people commented, which made the author add more tags. this thing came to my attention when the author decided to put it in the songxuexiao tag. whether it actually contains that ship, i cannot say.

the story is complete, but the author may or may not still be adding tags. they have also apparently been on a comment deletion spree - there are screenshots of this thing drifting around with >500 comments, but as of this writing there are 71. i wish i’d archived it so you could see for yourself, but you’ll have to take my word for it. i suppose the author got tired of antagonizing their haters.

so, that’s what’s up with sexy times with wangxian. may it please fade into obscurity, so that i don’t have to scroll past it anymore