Warnings and other Meta issues
Ok, as I've hinted a couple times, requirements for postings drive me crazy -- not because I don't think there should be warnings, but because there seem to be no logical rules about what to post. I mean, I know rape deserves mention, but beyond that?
Warnings were originally developed back in the more consciously feminist days, so that survivors of rape and others of that ilk wouldn't read something which really brought it all back. But since then?
It is a constant surprise to me how few warn of major character death, although the warning "sad" might/might not cover it. Recently I've been musing about an extra entry at top; so we've got "warnings" and we've got "matters of taste". I do not like mpreg; or, more precisely, I don't like sweet and fluffy mpreg. So just a warning about that as taste, because it's not for most an absolute "no," the way Dark!Harry fics generally are read according to taste, would be useful.
I'm posting this to start a conversation about what you think upsets a lot of people and what you personally don't like. I'll try to summarize and put them together in a summary finding. If something like consensus occurs, I'll post sort of a series of suggestions. I recommend that "taste" be about things you care about, and "warnings" be things you've noticed a lot of readers care about.
ETA: I would appreciate it if you could ask around in your own fandoms. I'd like to get feedback from fans above and beyond our own lovely community. Of course my first priority are comments from those who actually read and write H/D, since that affects our writing. (Only look out; K/S is rapidly returning to my vision, thanks to the evil machinations of Stray.
Warnings were originally developed back in the more consciously feminist days, so that survivors of rape and others of that ilk wouldn't read something which really brought it all back. But since then?
It is a constant surprise to me how few warn of major character death, although the warning "sad" might/might not cover it. Recently I've been musing about an extra entry at top; so we've got "warnings" and we've got "matters of taste". I do not like mpreg; or, more precisely, I don't like sweet and fluffy mpreg. So just a warning about that as taste, because it's not for most an absolute "no," the way Dark!Harry fics generally are read according to taste, would be useful.
I'm posting this to start a conversation about what you think upsets a lot of people and what you personally don't like. I'll try to summarize and put them together in a summary finding. If something like consensus occurs, I'll post sort of a series of suggestions. I recommend that "taste" be about things you care about, and "warnings" be things you've noticed a lot of readers care about.
ETA: I would appreciate it if you could ask around in your own fandoms. I'd like to get feedback from fans above and beyond our own lovely community. Of course my first priority are comments from those who actually read and write H/D, since that affects our writing. (Only look out; K/S is rapidly returning to my vision, thanks to the evil machinations of Stray.