merryish is a kind, kind person, especially for editing remix stuff for me and keeping me awake till it was all done. Now I'm typing in the beginning of my Howie/Justin story for
allecto's crossover challenge, which I wrote in a notebook during the past week. Maybe I shouldn't have used the purple gel pen. Practically every word makes me cringe. I don't know if
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Warnings and labels are two sides of the same coin. For every reader who is looking for 'BDSM', 'death story' and 'rape' labels so they can avoid the stories, there's another reader hunting them down because he or she *loves* that kind of fiction.
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I've grown to be oddly fond of the wacky pairing names in popslash. Not fond enough to use them myself, though. Clarity wins out over charm. But Timbertrick, you know, it's just a really neat word. :-)
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ANYway. Now you've made me go look at my site and see if I'm guilty of lack of labeling. Or, made me feel like I need to, as I haven't actually gone yet. I suspect I'm guilty -- not out of any agenda, though, just out of tunnel vision. I know what it is, so obviously everyone else should know, too. I probably do a better job of labeling once something is on my site than when I first announce it in LJ.
Off to test that theory. =)
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But Dixiekitten, no. :-)
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Go through old essays and rants (from at least a year back). Find one that, if someone posted it on a ml now, would make you:
rethink your current position
start a flame war by violently disagreeing with it (not that you'd flame them, exactly, just that you'd respond, and someone would take umbrage with it and...)
feel nostalgic for the days of your youth, when you were young and carefree and everything was so much simpler...
agree with it completely
and last,
one where you agree, but for different reasons (or at least think you should have said it a different way, used different arguments). Essay Remix!
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One of the things about anime fandom I would change if I could (heheh. Yeah. Right. 8) ) is the habit of labelling individual chapters for sexual content.
Part one.
Part two. (Lime!)
Part three.
Part four. (LEMON!)
Part five.
Is this so that readers can skip those chapters? Is it to enable readers to skip straight *to* those chapters? Is it so the reader can gird their mental loins against the horrors of explicit sexual content?
Or is there another reason that doesn't seem completely to work against the reader's enjoyment of the story?
*climbs off soapbox*.
This rant brought to you by the letters N & C and the number 17.
8)
Linda.
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