sign of getting old

[kaigou]

Used to be, stories came down the pike, and I'd read at least the first chapter, no attention paid to warnings, ratings, or pairings. Less time, less energy, less inclination, and an author who doesn't list pairings will get the delete key from me faster than anything. (The old n+? at least tells me there's a reason the author doesn't want to state the pairing.) Yes, no pairing listed will launch delete action even faster than finding seven misspellings in the first two paragraphs, or use of the dreaded fanon cliches -- banged boy or little one or the ever popular braided baka and if I see so much as a perfect anywhere and the next word starts with an s, shwooooop, and that would be the sound of my mail program sending yet another email down the chutes.

No rating, no warning, no pairing, no nothing, no read.

*stomps off*

Comments

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can definitely agree that it's something. I'll at least warn people about probable squicks and pairings (and I've never done one of those "I haven't decided the pairings yet" things because I don't post until a story's done) but I tend to go along for the ride a lot with the GWA folks. Most of the writers over there are at least decent, unlike the majority at ff.net, and if I don't like the writer or the story, well... I know where the back button is. ;)

I hear you on the 1x6x1 - it's pretty, and I can maybe see drunk!angry!competitive!sex in a PWP, but other than that... too different, and their similarities are all the type that would have them at each others' throats in a relationship.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the warnings on squicks are a big one. For all that I've written about some pretty wild stuff, there are some things even I have no interest in; at least a blurb in published fiction will imply situations, or I can read a review that may even discuss, nominally, the plot points that might turn readers off.