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Freeform 

Is not actually a fanfiction term itself, but an administrative tag used solely by the Archive of Our Own (AO3) system. AO3 uses a four category tag system: Fandom, Character, Relationships, and Additional/Freeform tags. The "-Freeform" suffix will be added automatically by the system to any Additional tag used by an author that is a duplicate of one existing in the system's canon database of Fandom, Character, or Relationships categories. In more general AO3 terminology, a freeform tag itself can be anything a user dreams up. If multiple people use the same (or similar meaning) tags, behind-the-scenes volunteers called "Tag Wranglers" may link the freeform tags together into a new searchable 'canonical' tag.

Moonbeam's Note: Please see the AO3 Tag FAQ page for further information: Archive of Own Own (AO3) - Tag FAQ

https://archiveofourown.org/faq/tags?language_id=en

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