[ SECRET POST #2910 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2910 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the answer to that is to say that there should be fewer deaths in movies and fiction aimed at children, or that there should be warnings on it (which I actually think there might be now, at least when it comes to movies. Ratings have explanations attached to them now so viewers can know a little bit about the content beforehand). I don't think the answer is to say that fanfic writers shouldn't be held to a standard that's mostly agreed upon by fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's because I HATE spoilers of any kind, but I just don't quite agree with this policy. Sure, children's media is rated, but it doesn't give away plot details -- it just says that it might contain violence or sex or swearing. But trying to do that for fanfic (just giving warnings for violence, sex, disturbing images, etc.) doesn't fly in fandom. People want you to specifically tag for for things such as character death.

And, personally speaking, I can't help but find it a tad patronizing that people think I'm less mentally equipped to deal with twists in a story than a child is.

And, as I noted before, I do think it's unfair to hold an unpaid author writing for an older audience to a higher standard than a paid children's writer.

[(Anonymous)]

But it's not that people think you or anyone else is less mentally equipped. It's that a lot of people who read fanfiction want to know ahead of time whether a story contains certain content. It's the writer responding to a desire and a fandom norm, not the writer making a pre-emptive judgment about you.

And I also don't think it's holding fanfic authors to a higher standard, just a different one (especially since it's a standard that doesn't change anything about the actual writing). As I said, people are usually reading fanfic for specific reasons. The fact that kids don't tend to read fanfic, or that kids seek out media for a wider range of reasons than adults who are looking for fanfic, doesn't really change that.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, agreed.