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fanficrants, I'm starting to wonder if one needs to post warnings about, well, the whole fic in some cases? Especially since I am sitting here eying one of my centi_50 drabbles which went right into R-/M-rated territory (yes, a certain gent whose name begins with M is involved and I'm tempted to Lampshade that as a joke), and for some, it might be NC-17-/MA-rated territory. After a few kerfuffles I've had on here, I'm gun-shy about high-rated fics. And what about the warnings? If I post a warning for the whole thing, it's going to be a bit spoilery. And make the header longer than the damn fic, which causes me to think of the tractor part of a highway tractor-trailer rig towing a small fiberglass trailer carrying a minuscule wooden rowboat.
Back to the M-rated fic, I'm also worried this could also bring the creeps back to this LJ; the last time I wrote the pair involved, there were a few comments that made me cringe a bit, though I could just have been acting over-sensitive. I technically ship said pair, but with reservations, since it defines "unhealthy relationship", or "bad romance" to quote a Lady GaGa song which fits said pair just a little too well. I have to admit, I went a bit over the top, and I'm tempted to think part of me was channeling Hideaki Anno at that point. Instead of it being "Okay, fans, you wanna see a main character die a horrible, messy death? You got it!" (ie. Asuka's horrible death in "End of Evangelion"), it's "Okay, you don't want me to fade to black this time? You got it! And just remember: one of 'em is a borderline pyschopath who likes sharp things..." Maybe I'll succeed as well as Anno did and creep out the creeps. I'm just worried about creeping out everyone else in the process, though trust me, in my case a creepy story is creepy because, rather than be Fetish Fuel, it needed creepy to be a good story.
fanficrants, I'm starting to wonder if one needs to post warnings about, well, the whole fic in some cases? Especially since I am sitting here eying one of my centi_50 drabbles which went right into R-/M-rated territory (yes, a certain gent whose name begins with M is involved and I'm tempted to Lampshade that as a joke), and for some, it might be NC-17-/MA-rated territory. After a few kerfuffles I've had on here, I'm gun-shy about high-rated fics. And what about the warnings? If I post a warning for the whole thing, it's going to be a bit spoilery. And make the header longer than the damn fic, which causes me to think of the tractor part of a highway tractor-trailer rig towing a small fiberglass trailer carrying a minuscule wooden rowboat.Back to the M-rated fic, I'm also worried this could also bring the creeps back to this LJ; the last time I wrote the pair involved, there were a few comments that made me cringe a bit, though I could just have been acting over-sensitive. I technically ship said pair, but with reservations, since it defines "unhealthy relationship", or "bad romance" to quote a Lady GaGa song which fits said pair just a little too well. I have to admit, I went a bit over the top, and I'm tempted to think part of me was channeling Hideaki Anno at that point. Instead of it being "Okay, fans, you wanna see a main character die a horrible, messy death? You got it!" (ie. Asuka's horrible death in "End of Evangelion"), it's "Okay, you don't want me to fade to black this time? You got it! And just remember: one of 'em is a borderline pyschopath who likes sharp things..." Maybe I'll succeed as well as Anno did and creep out the creeps. I'm just worried about creeping out everyone else in the process, though trust me, in my case a creepy story is creepy because, rather than be Fetish Fuel, it needed creepy to be a good story.
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Date: 2010-03-02 04:19 pm (UTC)