Actually your argument against labelling for the kind of (lack of) romantic content does make sense and I suppose truly "extreme" stuff is covered in a warning :) I think it weird anyway that excessive violence is less a factor in ratings (films and fanfic both) than perfectly healthy, consensual sexual actions between two or more adults...
I probably never noticed that you do not warn for slash because I can deduce such stuff from the pairing, most of the time and/or am looking for that kind of relationship in the first place. ;)
Re: Differences from canon: I have read my share of film!based Lord of the Rings stories where the characters were not whom I had seen on screen and/or read about in the books (I put both sources together because they both inform each other and my "reading" of Tolkien or the films). Most of the ones I actually finished were at least well-written and logically done once you just accepted the changes. Elfslash is a very good example of a subsection of fandom where you have to learn to shed your own canon reading to enjoy a story :)
And you know what? Even if you (general you, what we Germans would use "man" for) don't like the story there may be people who do. The author's bad grasp on canon and writing skills (says she who does not have many herself) can only improve if she is helped along rather than condemned for it.
And normally you are more of a canon conscious person than I am and your deductions and extrapolations in LOTR were so good that some thoughts and ideas forced me to look at my own Ardaverse critically. I cannot imagine it to be any different with your sci-fi (Star Trek Voyager? Stargate? something else?) stories.
So don't let yourself be discouraged, you are one of the best writers of LOTR fanfic I know *hugs*
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Date: 2006-03-24 06:04 pm (UTC)I probably never noticed that you do not warn for slash because I can deduce such stuff from the pairing, most of the time and/or am looking for that kind of relationship in the first place. ;)
Re: Differences from canon: I have read my share of film!based Lord of the Rings stories where the characters were not whom I had seen on screen and/or read about in the books (I put both sources together because they both inform each other and my "reading" of Tolkien or the films). Most of the ones I actually finished were at least well-written and logically done once you just accepted the changes. Elfslash is a very good example of a subsection of fandom where you have to learn to shed your own canon reading to enjoy a story :)
And you know what? Even if you (general you, what we Germans would use "man" for) don't like the story there may be people who do. The author's bad grasp on canon and writing skills (says she who does not have many herself) can only improve if she is helped along rather than condemned for it.
And normally you are more of a canon conscious person than I am and your deductions and extrapolations in LOTR were so good that some thoughts and ideas forced me to look at my own Ardaverse critically. I cannot imagine it to be any different with your sci-fi (Star Trek Voyager? Stargate? something else?) stories.
So don't let yourself be discouraged, you are one of the best writers of LOTR fanfic I know *hugs*