yeah that's what I figured was the kind of thing going on! I did submit a bug report to them, and they said they'd look into it, but I haven't heard back in ages so I'm guessing it's not high priority for them to look into. If they ever do figure it out I'll be curious to hear the details!

wait I just realized I wrote my post to say "ao3" when I meant "dw". dreamwidth is the site where I had these tag issues!!