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Warnings in fanfic
Mar. 15th, 2012 10:38 pmYou know, I've been thinking about the eight billion different warnings we all seem feel we have to add to every oh-so-short story. Why are we doing that? Are we so afraid of the reaction of certain readers whose tender sensibilities cannot cope with stories written for an audience older than than eight years? Or is it because those immature people tend to be so very loud about their crushed little psyche and we want them in safe distance of our stories?
I know I dio - but isn't that ridiculous? If they buy a book in a bookshop, there aren't a thousand warnings in avance, etiher. They just have to read the story and figure it out for themselves. That is what adult people do, after all. I mean grown-ups, not those who like to read or write smut, just to get things straight. Unfortunately, having spent decades, even half a century or more on this planet doesn't automatically mean that someone would be an adult, as the fandom wars clearly show.
The most annoying thing is, these fanpoodles never actually read the warnings we so carefully place before our stories. The most ridiculous example is "Atlantis Café". There are shifting tenses in that story. I use them as an artistic tool: namely, the time Ianto spends in the Pegasus Galaxy is his new life, his future, therefore those chapters are in present tense. The scenes taking place back in Cardiff belong to his past, so those chapters are written in past tense.
I am meanful of the idiots who roam FF.Net in general and the Torchwood fandom in particular, so I carefully warned any potential smegheads who stumble across the story that yes, there will be shifting tenses. And yes, they are used deliberately, because the tense shifts have got a meaning. Nonetheless, I got reviews in which people "helpfully" pointed out that there are evil, evil shifting tenses in the story. *headdesk*
I know that certain archives require from the authors to post all possible warnings. But I'm considering leaving them out completely in the future when I post a story to one of my own comms. I'm thoroughy fed up with fanpoodle idiocy.
I know I dio - but isn't that ridiculous? If they buy a book in a bookshop, there aren't a thousand warnings in avance, etiher. They just have to read the story and figure it out for themselves. That is what adult people do, after all. I mean grown-ups, not those who like to read or write smut, just to get things straight. Unfortunately, having spent decades, even half a century or more on this planet doesn't automatically mean that someone would be an adult, as the fandom wars clearly show.
The most annoying thing is, these fanpoodles never actually read the warnings we so carefully place before our stories. The most ridiculous example is "Atlantis Café". There are shifting tenses in that story. I use them as an artistic tool: namely, the time Ianto spends in the Pegasus Galaxy is his new life, his future, therefore those chapters are in present tense. The scenes taking place back in Cardiff belong to his past, so those chapters are written in past tense.
I am meanful of the idiots who roam FF.Net in general and the Torchwood fandom in particular, so I carefully warned any potential smegheads who stumble across the story that yes, there will be shifting tenses. And yes, they are used deliberately, because the tense shifts have got a meaning. Nonetheless, I got reviews in which people "helpfully" pointed out that there are evil, evil shifting tenses in the story. *headdesk*
I know that certain archives require from the authors to post all possible warnings. But I'm considering leaving them out completely in the future when I post a story to one of my own comms. I'm thoroughy fed up with fanpoodle idiocy.
