*mutters* and fannish5

[salixbabylon]

Grrr. I wish there was a better way to distinguish between a warning for "character death" that means one of the main guys in the fic gets killed and "character death" that refers to, say, Boromir or Sirius getting knocked off in canon.

But that opens the whole issue can of worms about warnings and I'm not ready to get into that at the moment.


naotalba has been posting these interesting lists and I wanted to play too and it turns out they're from fannish5 so I'm going to start doing them.

What (or who) are your five favorite monsters?

1. vampires - very sexy. I've had a weak spot for Lestat since I was 14.
2. dragons in general
3. werewolves - Remus in particular. *g*
4. the Watcher outside Moria in FOTR
5. the Oogy Boogey Man from "Nightmare Before Christmas"

Comments

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

But people warn for everything anymore, and half of them become meaningless.

Exactly. When people start including everything possible, it either turns into an advertisement for the fic (like spelling out the kinks) or just becomes weird. I recently went back through a story trying to find the bit they said was "pandering, maybe if you squint" and had no idea WTF they were talking about.

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

So you're saying I should stop putting "kinky" warnings on half most of my fic?

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Well. I like your kink. I think general kink doens't need a warning, because I'd say most of what you write tends to be kinky. Specific kinks maybe, if someone has a squick.

But again, to me it's all advertising. "Oooh, is Obi-Wan gettting spanked? I'm SO THERE!"

;)