Fanfiction Meme Day 15

15 – Warnings – What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?

I reckon that even if you've made it clear that your fic is NC-17 or R rated, any kinky stuff needs to be warned about because some people have very low thresholds. Especially non-con. I have too many friends and there are too many people out there for whom that would be an actual problem. Although I do have to admit I'll sometimes read a story based on the warnings. "Ohhh - BDSM and honey - mmmm."

Ahem. Character death I don't warn about usually, 'cause I'll have the level of the fic listed high enough to cover death generally. That, and I haven't written a lot of it. And the few I have, it'd be one hell of a spoiler.

If the category of the story covers things anyway, I don't tend to warn. Crackfic especially - anyone who read The Wibbly Wobbly Wand and expected a serious tale deserves everything they got. However, I did write Changes as a T (Teenager) rated story so felt it was important to warn for a "sex scene" - which is fairly non-graphic but I still felt it needed adding.

The strangest things I've warned about are:

Sometimes a little silly (Still Life with Dogs)
He's a baaaaad Potion's Master. (A drabble for a Snape LDWS.
PWP and very silly (Plans, a very silly response to the "Golden trio" prompt I had no ideas for.)

Hmmm. Perhaps I should use more warnings than that...

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Fanfiction Meme - day 16

16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

As someone who has read far too many cheesy romances, bad thrillers and cheap sci-fi, writing a summary (or a teaser) isn't usually that hard. I just imagine what would draw people in.

Severus caught Tonks and Bill doing something steamy in the bathroom.
Luna, her soul still damaged after the final battle, has bought an old Children's Home outside a grubby mill town. Hermione is helping her turn it into a refuge, but someone who had been there as a child comes back. (Probably the longest fic on the site)
Why did Dolores Umbridge have so many kitten plates?

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