[Mod-Post] Question: What about bad endings?

[smirkingcat.livejournal.com]

As I try to create this playground for all of us, I am in need of your input.

You have time to vote here until the 10. January 2016

[Poll #2024771]

Thanks for the Input- I shall announce the results in late January!

Comments

[tryslora]

Echoing frog on the spoiler code solution; the code is available on various comms. Folks could highlight if they want to know, and authors could also potentially say "choose not to say" in plain text rather than use the spoiler code if they don't want to spoil it, which puts it in the reader's hands to decide whether to take the chance.

I'd keep the options for types of ending as fairly large brackets. Happy Ending is obvious, as is Sad Ending. To cover the other options where it's not one or the other, just go with Ambiguous Ending perhaps because that's something where it's really up to the reader to take away what they please from it (and it kind of covers, IMO, the scenarios frog proposed which don't really fit Happy or Sad).

One thing you might want is to have folks tag with the big tags on AO3, because in an angst fic, those are the ones which might be things folks still trip on, like Major Character Death (which often implies one of the characters in the primary ship).

[capitu]

I was going to say something like this, actually. :D

[tryslora]

<3 Great minds, hon!

[hp-soa-mod.livejournal.com]

note taken!
and yes the big tags are taken in consideration!
but thanks for the reminder (and pointing me to a place i can check out how its done!

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

This^^^