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[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

An untitled bit of light reading for your weekend!

Author: travels_in_time
Characters: Fraser, RayK, OC
Rating: PG
Length: ~675 words
Warnings: CRACK.

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Comments

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

hey, could you list the pairing? especially since even after i clicked the link it took me a bit of reading to figure out which ray you were writing about. thanks!! :)

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I didn't want it to be clear that they were together until the end, so I didn't list anything. I'll put the characters, though, is that okay?

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

Well, speaking just for myself, I think that listing it that way is misleading, and that posting conventions exist for a reason. There are people who read F+K gen and not F/K. But in the end you have to make the decision you think is right for your story.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Well, true, I wouldn't want to lure anyone to reading a pairing that might squick them, or even just irritate them.

What's a good way to handle it, when you really don't want the pairing to be clear right away, but neither do you want to hack off your readers?

(I have to be away from the computer for a while now; not ignoring you, just gone.)

[belmanoir.livejournal.com]

i think you have to make a choice. either the pairing has to be clear and you'll lose the element of surprise, or it will be a surprise and you'll frustrate some readers.

i do think that listing a pairing still leaves lots of room for surprises. we don't know if it's first time or established relationship, and plenty of stories listed with a pairing are really pre-slash anyway. so i'm not sure listing a pairing would really spoil anyone for your fic.

the other advantage to listing a pairing is that people who like that pairing will read your fic. f/k is not going to scare readers away, it's going to make them WANT to read it.

basically, i think listing pairings, ratings, warnings, &c. are there for reader convenience. it enables a reader to read what they want, and not read what they don't want. it enables them to have basic expectations when they start reading a fic. i think in the end, that's a more satisfying reading experience for most people and leads to the most people who will like your fic reading it, and the most people who wouldn't enjoy it not coming around and crashing your party. but some authors definitely choose not to do those things because they think it isn't right for their fic. so long as you know the risks, it's a valid choice (so long as you're not breaking comm rules or anything, of course, which *you* certainly aren't).

anyway, i certainly don't speak for anyone else. i just commented to let you know that i personally had had a bumpy reader experience with your fic--do with that information what you will. :)

[akamine_chan]

No, bel, you weren't the only one. I spent a lot of time going "Vecchio?" "Oh, no, it's Kowalski. Maybe."

*shrug*

[nicci-mac.livejournal.com]

ROFL that's great. I think they should call the little guy Razer. Sounds kinda dragon-esque dont ya think? Ray and Fraser and baby Razer. LOL!

[sage]

Ooh, I see from the comments that the fic is FK. You'll see an admin post up the page that addresses a couple of reasons for tagging (there've been a bunch of untagged posts lately, so I figured it was time), but if you'd rather not have a pairing tag on this entry, let me know and I'll leave it as-is.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Hm. I tried to change it myself, but it just added the new one, it wouldn't let me delete the old one. So, yeah, if you wouldn't mind, you could delete the oblique one. Thank you!

[sage]

done!

[southerndue.livejournal.com]

Love your icon, ohhh shiny!!

Lisa