Haha! Didn't mean to make anyone paranoid, but I also wanted to speak in general about how the squick for me was not in the story so much as the mismatch between the story and my expectation of it, rather than getting bogged down in a particular example.
The summary of the story should have been enough to tell me it wouldn't interest me, but I just had it in my head that there was going to be more there than it seemed on the surface. I like that our community worries about warning the reader, but I don't really think it would be fair to expect the reccer also to issue warnings.
Anyway, I am quite unharmed by the experience, and it made me think more about warnings.
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Date: 2009-02-28 12:08 am (UTC)The summary of the story should have been enough to tell me it wouldn't interest me, but I just had it in my head that there was going to be more there than it seemed on the surface. I like that our community worries about warning the reader, but I don't really think it would be fair to expect the reccer also to issue warnings.
Anyway, I am quite unharmed by the experience, and it made me think more about warnings.