AO3 has 114 works tagged "mutually unrequited". They're not all by the same author, so I assume the tag has to have some generally-understood meaning. Can anyone explain to me what that meaning is?
...there's this line in Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel that says, "Over time, working at the Branch Library, I came to think of all books as just misprinted editions of Moby-Dick. Carol told me she felt the same way."
I feel like with that definition, every story ever written could potentially fall under a mutually unrequited tag, so long as it acknowledged the existence of persons not written about.
I feel like with that definition, every story ever written could potentially fall under a mutually unrequited tag, so long as it acknowledged the existence of persons not written about.
I feel this is an important and worthwhile idea that requires wider dissemination.
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I feel like with that definition, every story ever written could potentially fall under a mutually unrequited tag, so long as it acknowledged the existence of persons not written about.
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I feel this is an important and worthwhile idea that requires wider dissemination.