[ SECRET POST #5872 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5872 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Shrug. It depends. I'm usually pretty tag heavy - and I'll always give an idea of the general tone of a piece.

But once I tagged a fic as Choose Not To Warn because it was the end of a series and I didn't want the readers to be sure that the main character wouldn't die, and sometimes an important character gets tagged Mystery Guest because part of the story is working out who they are.

[pantswarrior]

Yyyyep. I get that a lot of people are just in fanfic for fluff/romance, and so when I write something that is more suspense/tragedy/horror/mystery, I am not writing for people looking for that. And I make it clear from the tags/summary that the story is NOT fluff/romance, so they can avoid it.

But people who ARE looking for a story with plot twists/surprises probably prefer that they aren't spelled out in advance and that there's still some surprise left. When characters' survival is in question somewhere in the story, my method these days is generally "choose not to warn" and then put notes at the beginning and end of the fic, with the one at the beginning linking to the one at the end that says if the characters live or die. So if people want to know in advance, they can, but it's not right there where someone who doesn't want to be spoiled will see it before reading the fic if they don't actively look for it.

[(Anonymous)]

But once I tagged a fic as Choose Not To Warn because it was the end of a series and I didn't want the readers to be sure that the main character wouldn't die,

I've done this too for a few mystery/thriller type stories. The characters didn't die but I wanted to preserve some suspense while they were in a very dangerous situation.

I'm sure there are people who chose not to read the story because of it, and that honestly doesn't bother me. Everyone should assess their own risk-tolerance level and stand by it, and obviously there's going to be a lot of variance. Not every fic is for every reader and that's okay.