poll! KFZ!

[aimeelicious]

So I've been giving a lot of thought to character death in fic, and the fic header warnings that often come with them, but sometimes don't. In the interest of fostering a dialogue on the topic, I've created a poll to gather some general information about reader preferences. This post/poll is UNLOCKED, in the hope that some of you will be willing to PIMP it in your journals and hopefully encourage others to fill it out, as I'd like as much input as possible. ETA: I do plan on doing a results post based on this poll, so please know that your responses will not just disappear into the ether.

Feel free to answer the poll anonymously if you wish, and take over my journal for discussion, just don't get nasty! This has been declared a kerfuffle-free zone (KFZ).

[Poll #450697]

ETA: Sorry for forgetting Smallville as a fandom...it's one of my faves and I left it off! Dang polls, can't edit them.

Comments

[abbylee]

Makes me wonder since I can see you are in the Harry Potter fandom, would you have wanted a warning on The Order of the Phoenix?

Hope you don't mind someone else jumping in. Although I guess you're out of luck if you did :p

I was actually very annoyed at how much publicity the death got. I like knowing about the tone before I pick what I read/watch for the day, so I appreciate being told that this particular book might be considered darker than the others. And I certainly have experience with parents who don't want their child reading a book where *gasp* a character dies, so I understand that they were covering their bums. But I really did find that instead of enjoying the twists and turns of the book, I was instead just waiting for them to kill someone off (since I didn't know who) so that I could get on with the story.