1) emmagrant01 had an interesting rant/discussion about character death warnings in her journal not too long ago. I can't be arsed to go find the link but she doesn't post too terribly often so you can probably find it. Her stance is that character death warnings (and other warnings) can be considered spoilers. To which I say, um, yeah but it's not like a movie or a book with trailers and dust jackets. The header info is all a reader has to decide whether to read a fic or not. Therefore a reader needs to know the primary squickables - like character death before they decide to click.
2) Very well put together poll
3) I chose other on the question regarding "dark fic = character death". A lot of people use dark fic to cover such a big blanket of thigns that I think it's impossible to jsut assume the above. I would never assume that, although I probably would have a little inner debate with myself, to click or not to click, and I have that on "dark fic" regardless. However, I 95 percent of the time will NOT click on a fic that has "character death" in the warnings unless I know the author or have some other really compelling reason to read it. That HP fic that everyone's been talking about, I have steadfastly not read, despite the fact it's been recc'd up and down and side ways.
4) I'm not saying that every fic has to be shiny happy joy joy cuteness, but for my money, my life is complicated and depressing enough. I'm on here and in fandom for stress relief, for an escape. I don't need to get sadder based on something I read.
*snugs* Thanks for doing the poll though, good job.
And I wibbled slightly on what fandom to choose before picking HP, omg!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-03-08 05:43 pm (UTC)1)
2) Very well put together poll
3) I chose other on the question regarding "dark fic = character death". A lot of people use dark fic to cover such a big blanket of thigns that I think it's impossible to jsut assume the above. I would never assume that, although I probably would have a little inner debate with myself, to click or not to click, and I have that on "dark fic" regardless. However, I 95 percent of the time will NOT click on a fic that has "character death" in the warnings unless I know the author or have some other really compelling reason to read it. That HP fic that everyone's been talking about, I have steadfastly not read, despite the fact it's been recc'd up and down and side ways.
4) I'm not saying that every fic has to be shiny happy joy joy cuteness, but for my money, my life is complicated and depressing enough. I'm on here and in fandom for stress relief, for an escape. I don't need to get sadder based on something I read.
*snugs* Thanks for doing the poll though, good job.
And I wibbled slightly on what fandom to choose before picking HP, omg!