Fanfic summaries
May. 11th, 2011 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There are a few remarks that make me *not* read a story in any of my fandoms:
- I'm rubbish at summaries - learn to write better ones, kiddie!
- NOT SLASH! - and that in caps, too, as if it would make the author or the story any better. It usually doesn't. But even if it did, I wouldn't read it, just for that little remark.
- Don't like, don't read! - why, thank you, that's what I'm doing...
- It's better than the title - well then, why don't you find a better title?
- I'm rubbish at summaries - learn to write better ones, kiddie!
- NOT SLASH! - and that in caps, too, as if it would make the author or the story any better. It usually doesn't. But even if it did, I wouldn't read it, just for that little remark.
- Don't like, don't read! - why, thank you, that's what I'm doing...
- It's better than the title - well then, why don't you find a better title?
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Date: 2011-05-10 10:51 pm (UTC)*headdesk* I'm not going to read a story where the title/summary are already ridddled with typos and grammar fail. :/
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Date: 2011-05-11 04:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-10 11:24 pm (UTC)This is why I use that caution in my numerous story warnings for my dark slashy slavefic AU, too - if people don't like slash, AU or slavefic, they should not complain that the story is just that. If they do like these things and still don't like my story, well, then that's my bad luck or I really did write something crappy. But then, they coukld at least have expected to find something they would like. :)
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Date: 2011-05-11 05:01 pm (UTC)However, I've once too often read that "don't like don't read" nonsense in the summaries of inane Merlin fics, where it meant that someone ships a particular pairing, and that's just plain childish, IMO.
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Date: 2011-05-11 08:36 am (UTC)Also, there are fandoms where the "not slash" makes sense - while I do find it offensive in every other context and certainly if it's in big capital letters. Or even more offensive with a tagged on "I don't write that stuff." In fandoms where slash is standard (say, my current one, Hetalia) people will assume the characters mentioned in the summary will end up in a romantic and/or sexual relationship unless otherwise stated.
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Date: 2011-05-11 05:05 pm (UTC)My most annoying experience in the No slash!-area is a particular author in the Stories of Arda archive - which is a site that doesn't accept slash by default, so WTF? - who puts that proud statement in every single one of her story summaries. Speak about stupid and self-righteous!
I never read any of her stories, and I never will. I mean, I like slash. But I like het, too, and genfic, and every possible genre, with the exception of gratuitous rape/torture stuff and kiddie pr0n. But I won't read the stuff on any author who thinks themselves better than other people, just because they don't write a particular genre.
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Date: 2011-05-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-14 09:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-14 09:43 pm (UTC)And for the record, that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that I like well-written slash stories. Those don't have SLASH in the summaries, as a rule.
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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