[ SECRET POST #3154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3154 ⌋

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

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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Nowhere in my original secret or in this post have I said that I don't tag my fics accurately.

I tag my fics with the proper rating and I always spend way too long going through AO3 tags to make sure I've selected the proper genres and tropes. What do you want me to do, put "WARNING!! THIS FIC HAS NO SEX!! LOOK, IT'S RATED PG!! LOOK!! BEWARE!! DON'T CLICK!!" in every summary?

People aren't complaining for "false advertising", they're complaining because the romantic subplot doesn't suit their tastes and they're not content with a story where the characters don't have hot sex and, again, I don't mind that, but it sucks when you work hard on something and want people to love it for what it is and they have to literally warn people that it's rated PG/PG-13 as though that automatically makes it worth less.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Just because it's rated PG doesn't mean it will stay that way, and while it's not okay for them to message you complaining about it, why on earth would you think a PG rating for one part of the fic takes away any chance of rating increase for new content later?

I often rate my fics PG and then increase the rating later when the actual sexual content comes in (and so as not to get people's hopes up before then). I recall in days of yore people often wrote "rating will go up in later chapters" to let readers know this.

And yes, people are complaining that your fic didn't meet their tastes. It means to them, your romantic wrap-up was not good enough to mitigate the lack of physical intimacy. Sorry your writing wasn't as good as you thought it was.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

stranger randomly in thread:

smh

0/10

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

If someone wants something specific from a story and the story doesn't have that, they're gonna be disappointed even if the writing is good. What an ass you are to say it means OP's writing isn't good enough.