I've been through the freeform tagset a few times, and I've found quite a few duplicates! If you'd like to clean some of them up, here are the ones I've spotted:
1) A B and C are each convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship A B and C pine while convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship
2) channeling pining into violence channelling pining into violence
3) A pines while believing B is dead Character pines for someone they think is dead
4) Trapped in Fake Perfect World that includes relationship with object of pining Trapped in fantasy where crush loves them back
5) metaphoric pigtail pulling to get the attention of the person you're pining for Pig-tail pulling to get crush's attention
6) A pines for B who is in a relationship with C A pining because B is in a relationship with someone else
7) Pining While Friends With Benefits Friends With Benefits while pining Pining while in a Friends With Benefits arrangement
8) Pining Character A worries about taking advantage of Character B Pining Character A worries Character B will think they're trying to take advantage
9) A pining for B sleeps with people who look like B A sleeps with people who look like B while pining for B
10) Character A feels unworthy of love Thinks They're Unworthy of Love
11) realizing you have a crush on the person who asked you out a while ago and you rejected Rejected a love confession only to fall in love with them later
12) Pining while having wounds tended Pining While their Crush Tends to Pining Character's Wounds/Injuries
13) Pining while tending someone's wounds Tending someone's wounds while pining for them
14) Pining Character knows and accepts that their feelings will never be returned (but still pines) Utterly Certain That Their Feelings Won't Be Returned
15) A pining because they think B isn't attracted to their gender/sex A pining for B whose sexuality doesn’t match A’s gender
16) Character A worries Character B will think they're trying to take advantage Character A worries pining Character B will think they're trying to take advantage
17) Character A Pines From Afar Watching Them From Afar While Pining
18) Piner Thinks No One Could Ever Love Them Pining because you don’t believe anyone could love you back
19) A thinks B is out of their league Pining for someone you believe to be “out of your league” Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining
20) In A Relationship Because They're Both Pining Over the Same Dead Person Characters are mourning their mutual lover
21) pining for someone who very obviously hates you/dislikes you/barely tolerates you Utterly Certain That Their Crush Hates Them A pines for B while thinking B hates them Character A pining because they think character B hates them
22) Pining Character A Settles For Meaningless Sex From Character B But Wants More Casual Sex While Pining A pining for B while having sex with B
23) Character thinks they're dying and doesn't want to hurt their pining partner Pined After Character Is Dead Or Going to Die
24) A pines for B incorrectly assuming they're dead Character A pines for Character B who is presumed dead
There are also some of these larger clusters, where they're not exactly duplicated but you might want to go from 3->2 tags or something, because they have a lot of overlap:
25) Character A pines for Character B because they think they're too old for B Character A pines for Character B because they think they're too young for B Character A pines for Character B who thinks they're too old for Character A Character pines for someone they believe will think they're too young for Pining because character believes age gap is too big
26) being forced into faking a relationship with your crush Fake Dating - mutual pining Fake Dating - one-sided pining Pining while fake dating
27) Character pines for someone who is dead Character A pines for their dead lover Pining for someone who died before feelings could be revealed
28) Love Confession: One Character Thought The Other Was Dead pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died pining character finally makes a move after they almost died
These tags either are duplicates, or might be missing a word/need rephrased:
29) B vanishes from existence and only A remembers them should this be pining B? B vanishes from existence and only pining A remembers them
30) Pining for father figure should this be pining for A father figure? It's either a duplicate of the second or a more specific version of the third pining for your father figure Platonically pining for a parental figure
31) Character A fears revealing feelings for Character B due to laws/rules Rules prevent pining characters from being together
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Duplicate Freeforms
Date: 2021-07-15 03:53 am (UTC)I've been through the freeform tagset a few times, and I've found quite a few duplicates! If you'd like to clean some of them up, here are the ones I've spotted:
1)
A B and C are each convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship
A B and C pine while convinced the other two are about to get into a relationship
2)
channeling pining into violence
channelling pining into violence
3)
A pines while believing B is dead
Character pines for someone they think is dead
4)
Trapped in Fake Perfect World that includes relationship with object of pining
Trapped in fantasy where crush loves them back
5)
metaphoric pigtail pulling to get the attention of the person you're pining for
Pig-tail pulling to get crush's attention
6)
A pines for B who is in a relationship with C
A pining because B is in a relationship with someone else
7)
Pining While Friends With Benefits
Friends With Benefits while pining
Pining while in a Friends With Benefits arrangement
8)
Pining Character A worries about taking advantage of Character B
Pining Character A worries Character B will think they're trying to take advantage
9)
A pining for B sleeps with people who look like B
A sleeps with people who look like B while pining for B
10)
Character A feels unworthy of love
Thinks They're Unworthy of Love
11)
realizing you have a crush on the person who asked you out a while ago and you rejected
Rejected a love confession only to fall in love with them later
12)
Pining while having wounds tended
Pining While their Crush Tends to Pining Character's Wounds/Injuries
13)
Pining while tending someone's wounds
Tending someone's wounds while pining for them
14)
Pining Character knows and accepts that their feelings will never be returned (but still pines)
Utterly Certain That Their Feelings Won't Be Returned
15)
A pining because they think B isn't attracted to their gender/sex
A pining for B whose sexuality doesn’t match A’s gender
16)
Character A worries Character B will think they're trying to take advantage
Character A worries pining Character B will think they're trying to take advantage
17)
Character A Pines From Afar
Watching Them From Afar While Pining
18)
Piner Thinks No One Could Ever Love Them
Pining because you don’t believe anyone could love you back
19)
A thinks B is out of their league
Pining for someone you believe to be “out of your league”
Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining
20)
In A Relationship Because They're Both Pining Over the Same Dead Person
Characters are mourning their mutual lover
21)
pining for someone who very obviously hates you/dislikes you/barely tolerates you
Utterly Certain That Their Crush Hates Them
A pines for B while thinking B hates them
Character A pining because they think character B hates them
22)
Pining Character A Settles For Meaningless Sex From Character B But Wants More
Casual Sex While Pining
A pining for B while having sex with B
23)
Character thinks they're dying and doesn't want to hurt their pining partner
Pined After Character Is Dead Or Going to Die
24)
A pines for B incorrectly assuming they're dead
Character A pines for Character B who is presumed dead
There are also some of these larger clusters, where they're not exactly duplicated but you might want to go from 3->2 tags or something, because they have a lot of overlap:
25)
Character A pines for Character B because they think they're too old for B
Character A pines for Character B because they think they're too young for B
Character A pines for Character B who thinks they're too old for Character A
Character pines for someone they believe will think they're too young for
Pining because character believes age gap is too big
26)
being forced into faking a relationship with your crush
Fake Dating - mutual pining
Fake Dating - one-sided pining
Pining while fake dating
27)
Character pines for someone who is dead
Character A pines for their dead lover
Pining for someone who died before feelings could be revealed
28)
Love Confession: One Character Thought The Other Was Dead
pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
pining character finally makes a move after they almost died
These tags either are duplicates, or might be missing a word/need rephrased:
29)
B vanishes from existence and only A remembers them should this be pining B?
B vanishes from existence and only pining A remembers them
30)
Pining for father figure should this be pining for A father figure? It's either a duplicate of the second or a more specific version of the third
pining for your father figure
Platonically pining for a parental figure
31)
Character A fears revealing feelings for Character B due to laws/rules
Rules prevent pining characters from being together