On warnings

I am pro-warnings. I try to warn for things I know are common triggers or die-hard squicks in my writing and my co-written stuff. Frequently, especially on my older stuff, I've included warnings that are joking or written in a facetious tone (I think I once warned for "disparaging remarks about President Grant" in a Mag7 fic). This doesn't mean that I don't take the need for warnings seriously.

If there are any fics I've written and posted that you think do not have adequate warnings, feel free to comment on the fic or PM me or seanchai and we will add a warning.*

Likewise, if you have any suggestions, criticism, or comments on the warnings and genre tags and other metadata at the Tales of Suspense website (a tag you would like to see included, an issue with the way something is currently being labeled or warned for), please feel free to either comment here about it or to PM or email myself or seanchai.*

ToS currently has a list of optional warning tags, with two mandatory-warning exceptions: major character death (yes, even if it's Steve's death that happened in canon, and no, I don't care if that's silly) and non-con/rape.

The non-con/rape warning is mandatory both because issues of consent in general and onscreen rape in particular can be major triggers for surviors of sexual abuse or assault, and because several people in the fandom specifically asked for such a warning on the site.

A generic "Kink!" tag is currently included on the ToS archive's list of warnings. I am considering altering that, and making a seperate metadata category for kinks, because several people have said during the ongoing warnings/triggers discussion currently going on in wider fandom that they dislike it when authors lump consensual sex acts in with death/abuse/assault. We'd also welcome y'all's opinions on that, as well as any suggestions on specific kinks you'd like to have the option of labelling for.

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etherati's Watchmen fics make me so very happy (and also afraid of posting my one sad little h/c fic when it's back from beta, because OMG, hers are gorgeous). The characterization, the prose, the mood... the zombies ^_^ Seriously, her zombie AU is probably my favorite Watchmen fic of all time, even more than spy's AU or theonlytwin's threesome fics.

Things that do not make me happy? LotR authors who like to throw around phrases like "the golden-haired elf" (Which one? That's, like, every elf in the movies and half the elves in the books) and "the young [noun]" instead of using the character's bloody name. Especially "the young [noun]" in close third. Teenagers? Do not think of themselves as young. 400-year-old elves? Definately don't think of themselves that way, even if 400 *is* young in eleven terms.

The Fluffle is filled with bliss when the Stevelet licks his face, but seems to be confused and distressed when I lick him. This clearly falls under the same "things I thought the cat would like, but which inexplicably distress him" category that putting butter on his nose did.