Think about movies like The Sixth Sense, The Piano or The Crying Game
I get what you're saying about the element of surprise.
However, when the trailers came out for the movies above, I made a choice NOT to see any of them - based on the trailer and probably from reviews as well. I didn't need spoilers to know that I didn't want to go through the emotional roller coaster those movies were probably going to put me on.
Granted, I may have missed out on some great work.
On the plus side, I didn't spend that afternoon and maybe days afterwards feeling sad and upset.
The problem with fic is - how else is a reader going to know whether she/he wants to read or not if there's no header? I get aggravated when people don't put the pairing in there sometimes. Without some kind of header and warnings, the reader has no basis to decide whether to click that cut or not.
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I get what you're saying about the element of surprise.
However, when the trailers came out for the movies above, I made a choice NOT to see any of them - based on the trailer and probably from reviews as well. I didn't need spoilers to know that I didn't want to go through the emotional roller coaster those movies were probably going to put me on.
Granted, I may have missed out on some great work.
On the plus side, I didn't spend that afternoon and maybe days afterwards feeling sad and upset.
The problem with fic is - how else is a reader going to know whether she/he wants to read or not if there's no header? I get aggravated when people don't put the pairing in there sometimes. Without some kind of header and warnings, the reader has no basis to decide whether to click that cut or not.