I am aware of fan_character, already partially blacklisted it, but as it says in the description of such, "Wholly original characters... ...should NOT be tagged as fan_character". I don't want to entirely block images of original characters, or fan characters, rather only those that also involve unassociated official characters, basically this in the blacklist:
copytags:>0 "original_character"
copytags:>1 fan_character
(I know the latter would catch some in the crossfire, oh well)
As I said, I don't want to completely blacklist such, as 90% of e6 would go poof, but it really just takes me out of it to see characters I know from media I love getting railed by random OCs.
going through old forum posts is seems like there was some sort of OC tag before. Am I missing something, or is there no way to do this?

There is no way to blacklist this particular situation, and I don't think there will be.

You're looking for canon_x_oc

cloudpie said:
You're looking for canon_x_oc

Never mind, then. Not sure how I missed that one, other than it being very undertagged.

cloudpie said:
You're looking for canon_x_oc

that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!, however it is as the other guy said, chronically underutilized.

scth said:
Never mind, then. Not sure how I missed that one, other than it being very undertagged.

Suprisingly so ain't it? I mean, if people actually used it, that tag should rightfully be over the 20k mark by now!
Yet another tag that needs someone to go on a CRUSADE with.

closetpossum said:
Suprisingly so ain't it? I mean, if people actually used it, that tag should rightfully be over the 20k mark by now!
Yet another tag that needs someone to go on a CRUSADE with.

I imagine somebody's counter-untagging it if I had to guess, bit like there was the whole kerfuffle over if "OC/Original Character/Fan Character" tags should even exist.

votp said:
I imagine somebody's counter-untagging it if I had to guess, bit like there was the whole kerfuffle over if "OC/Original Character/Fan Character" tags should even exist.

hmmmmmm.....well obviously, imo, if it's a original character EXISTING within the worldspace of an existing property...it's not an OG-Character...it's a fan character.
And I thought we already had this thing where we don't tag "fan_character" if they're not existing within said worldspace.

So how can there be a kerfuffle, is that concept actually hard for people to get?

closetpossum said:
hmmmmmm.....well obviously, imo, if it's a original character EXISTING within the worldspace of an existing property...it's not an OG-Character...it's a fan character.
And I thought we already had this thing where we don't tag "fan_character" if they're not existing within said worldspace.

So how can there be a kerfuffle, is that concept actually hard for people to get?

I think "existing in the worldspace of" is a bit too flexible. it should be strongly based off the species/design of a particular copyright to be a fan character.

closetpossum said:
hmmmmmm.....well obviously, imo, if it's a original character EXISTING within the worldspace of an existing property...it's not an OG-Character...it's a fan character.
And I thought we already had this thing where we don't tag "fan_character" if they're not existing within said worldspace.

So how can there be a kerfuffle, is that concept actually hard for people to get?

There are still regularly tagging issues with Hakya111(or however many ones their name has) with their zootopia animations because said world is indistinguishable from the real world.