Ooh yes, what about when it changes pairing within?! Hmmn... you know, to some extent I don't mind if it does that, and I don't think I even mind what it ends up as - I just want to know that the slash between B/D is there on some level, that it's a part of their life and their considerations and their reactions... yeah, if they/one of them ends up in a het relationship (and there are zines that I adore where this happens) then I don't feel quite the same about it, but I can still enjoy the getting there... It's knowing that there's slash in there at all for me!
Deathfic just doesn't get me like that - it can make me bleed for them, and make me feel deeply about a story etc, but when I'm bored with feeling sad I just pick up a different story to change my mood. And because I know there's always going to be a different story, then I know they haven't really died! And I don't like my Prosfic to be too un-real life either - too airy fairy happy endings all the time, because I stop believing in it after al while... better to be reminded of how glad I am that they're alive now and then! So if you're certifiable, I have my own twisty little brain working away! *g*
Yeah, age ratings strike me as odd - plus an excellent signpost to the under-age-rs of what to go and read that they theoretically shouldn't be! But then if I only want to read slash then it's all supposed to be over-18 anyway... Although none of it really makes sense anyway - presumably before m/m sex was legalised at 18, not all that long ago, we should presumably have been making sure that readers were over 21 or summat daft... I mean, please!
so any set-up that allows readers to choose whether or not to see warnings or any labels is up there with sliced bread. Yes, I think so too... But my dilemma comes when I want to see whether a story is slash or not, but I don't want to be warned about what happens in it, such as whether it's a deathfic! I'm not sure there seems to be a way to simply work around that - except perhaps by reading exclusively at Hatstand! *hugs slash-oriented Hatstand* *puts Hatstand down and dusts off carefully*
And yes - general hurrah! for Proslib and Hatstand and Circuit archivists, all three!
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Date: 2007-08-22 01:05 pm (UTC)Deathfic just doesn't get me like that - it can make me bleed for them, and make me feel deeply about a story etc, but when I'm bored with feeling sad I just pick up a different story to change my mood. And because I know there's always going to be a different story, then I know they haven't really died! And I don't like my Prosfic to be too un-real life either - too airy fairy happy endings all the time, because I stop believing in it after al while... better to be reminded of how glad I am that they're alive now and then! So if you're certifiable, I have my own twisty little brain working away! *g*
Yeah, age ratings strike me as odd - plus an excellent signpost to the under-age-rs of what to go and read that they theoretically shouldn't be! But then if I only want to read slash then it's all supposed to be over-18 anyway... Although none of it really makes sense anyway - presumably before m/m sex was legalised at 18, not all that long ago, we should presumably have been making sure that readers were over 21 or summat daft... I mean, please!
so any set-up that allows readers to choose whether or not to see warnings or any labels is up there with sliced bread.
Yes, I think so too... But my dilemma comes when I want to see whether a story is slash or not, but I don't want to be warned about what happens in it, such as whether it's a deathfic! I'm not sure there seems to be a way to simply work around that - except perhaps by reading exclusively at Hatstand! *hugs slash-oriented Hatstand* *puts Hatstand down and dusts off carefully*
And yes - general hurrah! for Proslib and Hatstand and Circuit archivists, all three!