[ SECRET POST #562 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #562 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 18 pages, 446 secrets from Secret Submission Post #081.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ], [ 1 - empty comment ], [ 1 - Walken ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 132

[shunraiken.livejournal.com]

I can't say I've ever seen a fic where there haven't been enough hints for me to be able to say "hmm, it looks like this might be going in a bad direction." And if it bothers you and you get to something that looks like it could potentially go in a direction you don't like, why keep reading it and risk upsetting yourself? I don't get it.

See, my point is, why should the author be forced to warn if they don't want to? Sure, it's the courteous thing to do, but it's their fic and if they don't want to warn for anything that's their own choice. People have the right be upset by it, but I don't think they should feel that they therefore have the right to dictate what an author does with his or her fic.

I'm not claiming to understand it, I just dislike the mindset that an author is somehow obligated to do anything with their own work.

Re: 132

[likespring.livejournal.com]

Because you can't always see it coming. And even if you can, it'd be nice to know beforehand before you get 50%, 75%, 90% through a story and have to hit the back button because the author decided to pop a rape scene in.

No one's forcing them to warn. There is no law making the author warn. But the only legitimate reason I can really see to not do so is if the author doesn't want to "spoil" certain parts for other readers. However, there are ways to still warn for those who need it without spoiling others -- whiting it out, placing it on another page that you have to follow a link to get to, putting it at the bottom of the story with a spoiler space, etc. If you still refuse to do any of those, I can't see any other reason than just plain "I dun wanna! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Which someone has every right to do, but I also have every right to criticize them for being inconsiderate.

Re: 132

[shunraiken.livejournal.com]

That's fair enough! And I'd actually never thought of those methods of warning before. I haven't written anything with really questionable content myself, but I know that I personally hate being spoiled for things so I tend to go with as few warnings as possible.

Re: 132

[likespring.livejournal.com]

I haven't either. I think the worst thing I've (jokingly, obviously!) warned for is lawyers. :)

I've seen tons of people use the white spoiler space, but the other two are less common in my experience. I understand someone not wanting to spoil other readers, but it's when someone outright refuses other options, even when someone politely explains why it's upsetting without warnings and suggests alternative ways to warn, that really gets me. That, to me, is just being stubborn.

Re: 132

[shunraiken.livejournal.com]

The one thing I hate warnings for the most is character death. It just... ruins the fic for me because I spend the entire time sitting there wondering who is going to die and when, and then when it happens it doesn't have as much emotional impact for me because I was expecting someone to kick the bucket. I'd much rather not see it coming and not have it constantly at the back of my mind.