Hey, friends. Grauntie Scribe here. I think that we should all take steps to make fandom as safe as we can and ensure people can avoid content that they find upsetting or triggering.

To that end, I’ve written a more comprehensive guide about how to filter your AO3 content here. This post is about how to make the most of your blacklist, specifically for Gravity Falls fans who are sensitive to incest, abuse, and pedophilia.

I am not keysmashing the ship names. If they show up in your ship tags because the tumblr search function is garbage, I am sorry, but I hope you can appreciate the needs of people with different boundaries than you.



This is not long, but I am putting it under a cut since I know that even mentioning the ships can be triggering.

Starting Point

Use this magic link! It filters out Billdip, Billford, Mabill, Stancest and Pinecest. The total number of works in the Gravity Falls tag is 9136 as of this writing. The link gets it down to 5174!



I set it up by using the “Search Within Results” field. You can use the format -filter_ids:tagid to remove results entirely from your search. To filter out two tagids, use the format filter_ids:tagid filter_ids:tagid with no comma or other punctuation between them.

To filter out

Billdip: -filter_ids:1016330



Stancest: -filter_ids:3767057



Pinecest: -filter_ids:547019

Billford: -filter_ids:5620971

Mabill: -filter_ids:1086026

Billstan: -filter_ids:524391 (currently I can’t filter on this one but I’m including it in case that’s a temporary problem)

Blacklisting:

This will hide (though not filter out) fics you don’t want to see by matching keywords to the tags.

Download ao3rdr, here for Firefox and here for Chrome. When you open AO3, every fic will now have a set of icons under it. Click on the one that looks like gears. This will take you to the “settings” page.

Copy and paste the following list. Press enter. Then press backspace once. You’ll see the tags separate along commas.

Cipher/, /Bill, cest, Stanford Pines/Stanley Pines, Stanley Pines/Stanford Pines, Dipper Pines/Mabel Pines, Mabel Pines/Dipper Pines, Dipper Pines/The Author, Mabel Pines/The Author, Billford, Billdip, Mabill, Dipford, Standip



Your blacklist is ready to go! Add anything else you don’t want to see.

(Want to know the three-tag list that would accomplish the same thing if people tagged properly? Here it is: Bill Cipher/, /Bill Cipher, cest

This will block all properly tagged Bill ships and incest works. I recommend blacklisting on the “cest” prefix instead of “incest” itself because this will also catch things tagged “Stancest” or “Pinecest” if the author didn’t add “incest” as an additional tag. It also catches longer tags like “can be interpreted as Stancest”.)

Let me know if you have further questions, and stay safe!