warnings

[roxy]

I happened to be thinking about this subject lately, so I was very surprised to see it's being knocked around. I'm thinking that yes, it's a good thing to warn people, and now that I see how it's possible to do so without spoiling your story or whatnot, I will. Most of my personal posts aren't really all that personal and if it is something extremely personal, I stuff it behind a cut, I also have filters, but doing that to a *story* (unless it's in tryouts--i do that sometimes) kind of defeats the purpose of posting it, right? So, remind me to do the warning thing from now on. You know I'm going to forget about a bazillion times before it becomes habit. Also, please don't rush to tell me why it's not a good idea, and how you'll never do it, because I don't care.

Comments

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

I've put spoiler warnings or additional warnings at the end of a fic and told people about it at the top in A/N. Is there a neater way to do it?

[tabaqui]

I NEVER DO IT!!!

Hehe.

But, to be fair, i don't really write about anything that seems to be the top ten of triggery stuff, like sexual assault and torture and child abuse and such.....

*twirls you*

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

the few things i've written, i'd need to warn for happy endings, peace, love, and understanding. angst? fuggeddaboudit. but when i read your stories, i know to belt in tight for a wild ride, and that's fine!

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about warnings. In some ways they're spoilers but others...well I've read some fic that really SHOULD have had a few warnings. Things I would NOT read if I'd known about it going in.

But things like OFC...really, do we NEED a warning that there's an OFC?

[me-ya-ri.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I do the warning things but then when I do a story that's got no sex I put in a warning for that too. *g* No, seriously, when I write a story that should have sex and it just didn't let me get it in there, I warn 'no sex'. I had someone thank me for that once. *shrugs*

I've only been asked to warn for something once and that was a miscarrage in a Clex mpreg I wrote. I said thanks for telling me and slapped a warning on the puppy. Just makes sense to me.