[ SECRET POST #2448 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2448 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #350.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Just a friendly reminder that

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

But isn't there a limit for warning readers? Look at your sentence:

"I know a lot of people who like reading stories about ______ and other people who don't."

You could replace "OCs" with anything. I don't like reading stories about bad parenting, alcohol abuse or religion. Should authors warn for those things and every other preference a reader might have?

Or should the reader maybe accept the responsibility to figure out on their own whether or not the story in question is something they like and want to spend time reading? (Because they'll have to do that anyway, regardless of content.)

Re: Just a friendly reminder that

[(Anonymous)]

Some of uf us have very a limited time for things like reading fanfiction. I use tags and warnings to find things I might like. If I start reading a fic and three chapters in it turns out that this is actually a fic about my favorite canon character falling in love with an OC, I don't want to read it and probably won't have any time left to start searching through tags and summaries again, so I have no choice but to leave unsatisfied. Is it really too much to ask for people to tag and warn on the fics they write? I mean, if you had time to write the canon character/OC fic, you really should have time to add "canon character/OC romance" in the summary.

Re: Just a friendly reminder that

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People have limited time to read, so it is general considered polite among fanfic writers to give the reader a clear idea of what to expect, and what not to expect, from that fic. That includes, on the most basic level, telling the reader which characters and pairings appear in your fic, whether they're canon or original. It's just good manners.

As for everything else, that's what you have tags and a summary for. Of course you don't have to warn for every single thing that appears in your fic, but you should make it clear whether you're writing a super serious, potentially triggering story about child abuse or porn without plot or a philosophical piece where characters discuss their religious beliefs or whatever.