Overtagging is the worst, imho, especially from those who forget that other sites like AO3 aren't Tumblr where they can literally go off into conversational thoughts in the tags. Like, seeing every single character and pairing tagged is annoying enough, there really is no need for tagging nonsensical sentences when you could have just written that in your summary or the additional notes on the fic itself.
Anything that is tagged a pairing but they aren't actually the main pairing of the fic, or there is a NOTP featured, is something else that annoys me as well. Either don't tag or place a warning. Another thing is when people don't tag for character deaths. I read this one fic where it happened to one of my OTPs and nowhere in the tags or description was there any warning for it. Like, if I want to read angst I'd specifically look for it but to have it sneak up on me like that was just, no.
IA with you about published fiction. I know that with some authors their publishers might pressure them to not include queer characters or keep it on the "down low" or something to that effect, but I wish authors would stand their ground on keeping characters who are meant to be queer in the story. It's not really that hard. To say that it's "not relevant to the story" is kind of ridiculous, because what about all the heterosexual romances in stories that aren't about romance? Are those also not relevant to what the plot is about? Like please, get real.
And yeah, the rape-as-love thing is gross. See: 50SOG and how romanticized it is, when it really is just rape and domestic abuse. And the fact that it's supposedly so popular baffles and scares me, tbh. SMH.
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Date: 2014-12-01 11:34 pm (UTC)Anything that is tagged a pairing but they aren't actually the main pairing of the fic, or there is a NOTP featured, is something else that annoys me as well. Either don't tag or place a warning. Another thing is when people don't tag for character deaths. I read this one fic where it happened to one of my OTPs and nowhere in the tags or description was there any warning for it. Like, if I want to read angst I'd specifically look for it but to have it sneak up on me like that was just, no.
IA with you about published fiction. I know that with some authors their publishers might pressure them to not include queer characters or keep it on the "down low" or something to that effect, but I wish authors would stand their ground on keeping characters who are meant to be queer in the story. It's not really that hard. To say that it's "not relevant to the story" is kind of ridiculous, because what about all the heterosexual romances in stories that aren't about romance? Are those also not relevant to what the plot is about? Like please, get real.
And yeah, the rape-as-love thing is gross. See: 50SOG and how romanticized it is, when it really is just rape and domestic abuse. And the fact that it's supposedly so popular baffles and scares me, tbh. SMH.