When you read a story, what is your personal preference for character death warnings in fic headers? I've found that a lot of stories will warn if one of the good guys die, but consider it just deserts if someone they think of as a bad guy dies. Being a fan of a particular bad guy I get really tired of reading fic that has him in and him just getting decapitated or burned alive or whatever. I'd like to be warned, so I could skip it until I'm in the mood. Because some days watching everyone die painfully is really the last straw. Which is the only reason I'd want death warnings in the first place. But I wouldn't much mind if some random never named vamp lunch got killed without a death warning, so I think of it as 'only major characters', but have an unusual definition of major.
'required' headers depend on venue. On mailing lists you can always skip the part 0. In other places it isn't so easy to ignore the warnings if you don't want to be spoiled.
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:37 am (UTC)I've found that a lot of stories will warn if one of the good guys die, but consider it just deserts if someone they think of as a bad guy dies. Being a fan of a particular bad guy I get really tired of reading fic that has him in and him just getting decapitated or burned alive or whatever. I'd like to be warned, so I could skip it until I'm in the mood. Because some days watching everyone die painfully is really the last straw. Which is the only reason I'd want death warnings in the first place.
But I wouldn't much mind if some random never named vamp lunch got killed without a death warning, so I think of it as 'only major characters', but have an unusual definition of major.
'required' headers depend on venue. On mailing lists you can always skip the part 0. In other places it isn't so easy to ignore the warnings if you don't want to be spoiled.