Note to author about author notes

[mew3]

Dear Author,

It is really obnoxious to post the warnings at the bottom of a story, especially if they are controversial such as in this case "explicit shouta". There are 127 words in your authors summary at the top, you can add a few more. (How about five? Warning: story contains explicit shouta.)


I assume that you did this, so that people would give the story a chance. The first chapter is gen and sets up a decent introduction.

So while I will agree that it is marginally more courteous than leaving me to discover the shouta as I don't even want to know happens in the middle of whatever.

But I can't help but feel that I'm left in this conundrum:

• If I care about warnings (though perhaps not this particular warning) then I spoil the ending of the first chapter for myself.
  
• If I don't usually care about warnings, but this hits my squick button hard, then I've wasted my time reading your story.
  

</3,
Mew3

Comments

[nan]

Wow. As someone who isn't even squicked by shouta, I TOO would prefer a warning!

[noracharles]

I like warnings at the bottom of the page, but I do agree that it's nice with some visual space, so the reader doesn't accidentally skim the last paragraph. That kind of defeats the purpose of hiding spoilery warnings.

OT

[reason_says]

Is shouta different from shota?

Re: OT

[mew3]

I believe that they are the same thing, just an alternative transliteration. I copied the term from the authors warning. It was pretty clear in context that it was about an eight year old being put in a sexually compromising position.