lyssie | (no subject)

yet another person who must wrap herself in Charmin before leaving the house.

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Bwahahaha! :D

I love teh Internet.

Free meanie stickers for everybody!

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*confused and baffled*

Awww. Did you break someone's fragile little mind?

'nos commented on the same thing (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nostalgia_lj/772535.html) - I gave her a label (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nostalgia_lj/772535.html?thread=9006007#t9006007) she might find useful to silence the critics. Would you like a similar one for your own use?

Offer to tell them the endings of all the movies they're going to go see, so they can avoid seeing the ones with bad endings. >:)

*facepalm*

That reminds me all too well of a couple of fandoms I've been in, where they'll shitlist you for life if you don't give them a happy glowy ending.

Ever just want to respond "welcome to reality"? *sighs*

fooling people into reading something
Nope, still doesn't make sense.

Ok I'm new here but I do have to chime in ::Hates haveing to go against the crowd::

I can see where a warning is a good thing, even a mandantory thing... now don't get me wrong I ♥ angst - hell I writeangst... but there are some out there who can't handel depressing fics.

My mom won't go watch a movie where someone or something dies. Why? Because if she does she will litterly cry for hours... a warning for people like her is just a kindness - an act of common curtosey to those too sensative to handel such things.

It's also a good idea to add warnings because well people like me exist. You know people with clincial diagnosis that include depression. I read something in the wrong mood and it could be just the thing I need to push me from blue to morose. So, a fair warning let's me know to bookmark and go back when I feel stronger.

Just giveing voice to the other side of the coin.

Please forgive me for intruding.

I had hoped to speak to those willing to give some consideration to another's opinion. I had hoped to have an honest, open and intelligent discussin about a subject that has two very valid sides. However it seems that what I got is nothing more then those who are too wrapped up in their own way of thinking to even hear, much less truly consider another point of view.

I wanted to know if I would be happy here - I have my answer.

I spoke of careing gently for one another and I was met with attacks and accusations of wekaness.

I spoke of the minor amounts of time that it would take to proffer a warning and was told that movies and books do not offer such things. (Which is really strange since I could swear that's what that little R, PG and such and the tiny print that explained why a movie received the rateing it did was all about fair warning.) and if I want warnings as to books I can always check out Amazon for reveiws.

There is not room here for one who doesn't think exactly like all the others here, so I will leave you to one another and search for more open minded pastures.

I bid you good night.

I too wish I had a dollar for every unwarned crappy ending or shitty fic I ever read.

Oh, she means no puppies and roses? heh. Well, yes and no. I'm not a fan of the "and they she got run over by a van, ha hah" ending, but... dude, you pays your money, you takes your chances.

Wait a minute, that's right. You didn't pay.

< / snark>

I was directed to this journal by

elemental_fey and I feel compelled to make a point, even if it may fall on deaf ears.

Warnings are a double edged sword, in fanfiction. On one level, many people will read anything and don't WANT to know about warnings/plot spoilers. On the other, many people don't want to read certain things, as is their right.

Many of you have pointed out that the real world is not a place of happy endings always prevailing, and that is true, but I also have to make the point that fanficion is not the real world. Many people read it for escape, and don't want to be burdened with the heavier points of life.

Books, films and television shows are all mediums that have a lot more publicity than the piece of fiction that a single person posts online. A film has a rating (one user stated that they have no warnings -- I'm not sure about elsewhere, but I here in Australia where I am they do carry tags for 'violence', 'horror' etc), and most of them will be seen in previews that give the prespective audience a clear indication of the films' genre, and what its plot might contain. A book is placed in a genre, and has an outline. Usually, genre and summary will give the audience an idea as to what it will contain. Television shows have a combination of these.

When a person wants to read a piece of fanfiction online, the only outline they have (usually) is the outline provided by the writer. It is common courtesy to give a genre (including angst, etc) so the reader has some idea what to expect, to post and adequete rating and give warnings for anything that might be potentially disturbing (such as character death).

I live for the most part in the Harry Potter fandom, so I can only really speak with any authority on that. They are a series of books written for children, and so I think it makes the posting of warnings very important. Fans of say, 'Kill Bill' are much less likely to be wary of stories containing violence and character death than people reading Harry Potter. Warnings should be appropriate to the fandom, as far as angst and adult content go.

In any fandom, I think things like non-consensual sex or character death should be given warnings - it should be up to the reader to decide whether they want to read that. Imagine being a rape victim and not being warned of a story that contained graphic non-con? Or a parent reading about the graphic death of a child? It's just courtesy to warn about such things. We are not the owners of this material, so it is not our creative license.

There is no need to say, in thses cases, WHO is raped, or WHO dies - a general warning will not usually ruin plot, and it sends away those who do not want to read such things.

My two cents.

*mutters* Do they even know how to read?

*is mean*