Or put the Notes at the end of the fic.

Well, the end of the chapter. I know you have Reasons for not getting back to the work more quickly, God know we've all got Reasons.

Notes at the end is an option. But where they display when at the end is hard to avoid, so if you're reading something and the author has a summary at the end of any chapter where there is problematic content (hi, have you met me? I'm the person who is searching for the dubcon and noncon, so this is a lot of my reading) detailing in summary form the problematic content--a common thing these days--chances are you will get stuck seeing them.

I could skin it to hide it, but I don't want to, because I want to be able to turn it on for important notes like translations and occasional footnotes.

As you know, Bob, I share these feels.

The more we talked about it the more committed I got.

detailing in summary form the problematic content--a common thing these days--chances are you will get stuck seeing them.

Yeah. I have "choose not to show archive warnings" checked, because I don't want to know. Similarly, I don't want to be spoiled for the bloody story in the notes. But I suspect that is the trend of fandom.

Man, LOTR fandom was so crazy back in the day. Just shuffling through crack_van (long live crack_van!) and seeing all the pairings wide and yonder fills me with delight. You think crack reached its height in Inception or Teen Wolf? O my friend, LOTR did it all first (and in many cases for the better).

Yeah. I have "choose not to show archive warnings" checked, because I don't want to know. Similarly, I don't want to be spoiled for the bloody story in the notes. But I suspect that is the trend of fandom.

Thus my desire to be able to turn the things off! Jesus, I don't need a summary of EVERYTHING SOMEONE MIGHT BE BOTHERED BY IN THE NOTES. "Blair cuts his hair. He gets into a fight with Jim over it that then turns sexual. Neither of them consent specifically, but both enjoy themselves. Jim worries that he has crossed a line with Blair never the less."

If you've already tagged it, you have warned enough!

I don't want to be spoiled for the bloody story in the notes

I do a quick scan for my standard Do Not Read tags, look over the pairings and standard tags, then skip the notes.

Blair cuts his hair.

this remains the ur-warning, heralding all other warnings in fandom.

It does indeed.

Though, you know, I kind of want to read the story I just summarized now.

OH! SA, I should send you my schedule for Norwescon so you can come mock me when I'm on the fanfic panels. I think a day pass isn't too horrifically costly.

Please do! I had kind of hoped to come up for ECCC, to meet Carla Speed McNeil, but I don't know that that will happen.

Flashback for LOTR fandom: The One Ring Challenge, an experiment with different characters coming to possess the One Ring. This was part of an amazing shift towards fandom through LJ and people going further and wider than had been done before. Still awesome.

Shoot me a mail to my minim-calibre@live.com address so I can add you to contacts quickly and I'll pass it along.