Now, now, they didn't *require* haircut warnings. They merely explained that unwarned haircuts could cause mental trauma to some people.

And embraced domestic discipline as a valid genre.

Seriously. Has there been another fandom that required haircut warnings on stories?

::stares::

...okay, wow. I'm pretty much of the 'warnings are spoilers' mindset, and rather begrudge giving away pairings/character death/salient things. But...haircut warnings.

Wow.

Sentinel was a Very Special fandom, Fay. And the haircut warning almost makes sense in context, if you turn your head, squint, and toss all rationality and good sense out the window. And then perhaps you should eat a hash brownie while you wait for the elves to appear.

Sometimes, fandom turns a corner into hair fetishization. People did it with Charlie on Numbers too, didn't they?

Oh boy. And then there were the Michael hair wars in Nikita fandom.

Oh, and I guess Felicity, too.

People are so weird about hair. I'm baffled by this every time I watch What Not To Wear.

Oh, god, how did I forget to mention Michael's hair? Sorry, I mean Michael's auburn locks. Or chestnut. Not brown! Never brown.

His flowing chesnut mullet locks and jadeite orbs!

Dear world: Chestnut is a synonym for brown. An overwrought synonym.

no love,
me

p.s. "Vermillion" is not an acceptable descriptor for Scully's hair unless she is actually wearing a Binky the Clown wig.

Well, whatever floats their boats, you know? And, yeah, very true that Charlie looks much cuter with the hair than without the hair (if you've seen the original pilot, where they went in a rather more Rainman direction with him, and the other members of the Eppes family were both WASPy WASPs from the planet dull). But...haircut warnings. Allrighty then.

Incidentally, you've just reminded me - every time I go to the Poly Recs homepage I'm reminded that y'all don't rec Domestic Discipline. And every time I think to myself "Hmm...that probably doens't mean restraining oneself from eating all the cookies in the packet, or remembering to buy enough loo roll/washing up liquid, or cleaning the flat once in a while." So what IS it, then? Is it BDSM in the comfort of one's living room? Or what?

"Vermillion" is not an acceptable descriptor for Scully's hair unless she is actually wearing a Binky the Clown wig.

!!!

Oh, but you know, that could be a rather fabulous little ficlet. Scully staring at her reflection in horror, and gazing down at the new hair dye splattering the pristine surface of her sink like a scene from Psycho, and then letting out a wail of pure horror at the unexpected and wholly unconvincing shade her hair has turned, all because she didn't get enough of the alien/werewolf/vampire/goblin blood out of her locks prior to doing her roots.

So what IS it, then? Is it BDSM in the comfort of one's living room? Or what?

It's a relationship where one person disciplines the other in a paternalistic sort of fashion. I.e., Jim would spank Blair when he did something wrong, and not in a sexy way.