I was with you until you mentioned text conversations and articles. Those are literally just another way to format the text (i.e., an actual part of the fic). Your choice to avoid this is as arbitrary as refusing to read any part of a fic that's written in italics.

Then again, I'm talking to someone who chooses to self-censor the word "fucking" instead of writing it properly or choosing a word they find less offensive, so I probably shouldn't bother.