Hey, you are me. Except for the part where I remain relatively hardline about marking pairings and other labels. I kind of like the idea of labelling for genre (as we used to do! In XF of old! Sob!!), as long as "angst" is not a genre.
In re warnings, I was at work and completely ignored your stated warning in "Spider Bites", skipped right on past it, went blind for the NC-17 rating, and failed to click on the Author Note, and that was a Mistake. (It was eagerness, you know, to read your writing. I went back at home and read the rest.) So I don't know what would draw appropriate attention without grabbing readers by the shirt-collars and asking, "ARE YOU SURE??" I do tend to agree that the fandom at large demonstrates a considerably more -- explicit? theatrical? finely-tuned? -- sense of what is angsty and/or dark than I do, so your Author Note might have been more effective on people who read more carefully than I do.
You're confused about ratings, like PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 ratings? (As you know, Bob, I am one who has rated a story NC-17 solely due to violence. I would like to think other people have done that, but I've never seen it.)
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In re warnings, I was at work and completely ignored your stated warning in "Spider Bites", skipped right on past it, went blind for the NC-17 rating, and failed to click on the Author Note, and that was a Mistake. (It was eagerness, you know, to read your writing. I went back at home and read the rest.) So I don't know what would draw appropriate attention without grabbing readers by the shirt-collars and asking, "ARE YOU SURE??" I do tend to agree that the fandom at large demonstrates a considerably more -- explicit? theatrical? finely-tuned? -- sense of what is angsty and/or dark than I do, so your Author Note might have been more effective on people who read more carefully than I do.
You're confused about ratings, like PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 ratings? (As you know, Bob, I am one who has rated a story NC-17 solely due to violence. I would like to think other people have done that, but I've never seen it.)