summaries?
This isn't a complaint or demand, and I would never directly ask anybody to change how they do things. Because fic is free, and I'm grateful.
And I spent years in fandoms back when writers frequently didn't even list pairings or fic length or summaries at all.
But it's very difficult for me to figure out whether or not I want to read a fic when the summaries are only snippets of the fic itself. Snippets that don't even include key sentences.
Some fandoms seem to do this more than others, but I'm seeing it more and more.
I don't check tags unless there's a snippet summary, but most of the time I can't even figure out what a fic is about from the tags.
Again, I'm not complaining, but I'm asking if this is a trend done on purpose and I'm just not connecting things or missed something.
Is it done so more people read the fic because they want to find out what it's about? Is it a stylistic thing?
If traditional summaries are going out of style, I don't want to fight it like an ass on my own fics.