why deny the obvious child
Just read this, started thinking about it...
I think this applies to fanfiction the most; ie in an already created world where people are writing pairs of existing characters and those pairings can be absolutely anything under the sun and therefore would naturally show up under a "pairings" category in the summary of the fic, so yeah, that's weird to put m/m or f/f under warnings in fandoms. On fictionpress I've always put m/m slash under warnings, but that's because I saw everyone else do it and just kind of followed suit and I started doing that when I was a teenage sheep person and was like DURR HOW I ACTIVATE THE DOING FIC RIGHT. Also because ficionpress is original stuff and you don't put pairings in your summaries because nobody know who the fuck your characters are yet! But you know what. I always put m/m slash in my outside summaries (ie before you even click on the fic) and that should really be good enough for people who just really aren't into reading slash (sometimes not even; I had one reviewer who said they missed all the warnings and usually hated slash fiction and yet ended up really liking L&S anyway). I think I'll start moving the notice that it's m/m into the genre. Because yeah; warning is a negative word in that context, man. Almost as bad as tolerate.
I think this applies to fanfiction the most; ie in an already created world where people are writing pairs of existing characters and those pairings can be absolutely anything under the sun and therefore would naturally show up under a "pairings" category in the summary of the fic, so yeah, that's weird to put m/m or f/f under warnings in fandoms. On fictionpress I've always put m/m slash under warnings, but that's because I saw everyone else do it and just kind of followed suit and I started doing that when I was a teenage sheep person and was like DURR HOW I ACTIVATE THE DOING FIC RIGHT. Also because ficionpress is original stuff and you don't put pairings in your summaries because nobody know who the fuck your characters are yet! But you know what. I always put m/m slash in my outside summaries (ie before you even click on the fic) and that should really be good enough for people who just really aren't into reading slash (sometimes not even; I had one reviewer who said they missed all the warnings and usually hated slash fiction and yet ended up really liking L&S anyway). I think I'll start moving the notice that it's m/m into the genre. Because yeah; warning is a negative word in that context, man. Almost as bad as tolerate.