Well I have to admit that when I was writing I warned if I considered a fic dark or if there was character death but otherwise I'm a bit of a fluffy writer and I'm not keen on incest or underage or non con and won't write it. I actually find RPF disturbing too so I like to know pairings. I also like ratings that a lot of people use for fic because it's a nice short hand way for me to get an idea of what I may be getting into if the author is unknown. Some days you want something steamy, other days straight adventure.
I would hate to think I unknowingly ruined someone's day with something edgy I'd written, without the proper warnings. But I did understand in the second article, some of the concerns about what people should warn for; the big things I see and I think most people would agree on what they were, as mentioned above. It's the secondary (for lack of a better term) items that might be considered worthy of warnings that were being discussed that worry me, some of them sounded too subjective, although I suppose that could always be used as a defense/argument. Do unto others is not as easy as people would have us believe.
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Well I have to admit that when I was writing I warned if I considered a fic dark or if there was character death but otherwise I'm a bit of a fluffy writer and I'm not keen on incest or underage or non con and won't write it. I actually find RPF disturbing too so I like to know pairings. I also like ratings that a lot of people use for fic because it's a nice short hand way for me to get an idea of what I may be getting into if the author is unknown. Some days you want something steamy, other days straight adventure.
I would hate to think I unknowingly ruined someone's day with something edgy I'd written, without the proper warnings. But I did understand in the second article, some of the concerns about what people should warn for; the big things I see and I think most people would agree on what they were, as mentioned above. It's the secondary (for lack of a better term) items that might be considered worthy of warnings that were being discussed that worry me, some of them sounded too subjective, although I suppose that could always be used as a defense/argument. Do unto others is not as easy as people would have us believe.