Series titles
Aug. 29th, 2008 01:28 pmWell, for fanfic, that is.
I tend to archive my series/universes, especially my unplanned ones, with the title of the first fic in series. This is not normally a problem. But when I was working on cataloguing some fic last night, I ran across the problem of a fic series where the title was much fluffier than quite a bit of the content.
( Fluffy title, not-so-fluffy fics )
Now, I think of this set of fics by the first story's title because to me, all of the stories contain the same (potentially disturbing) story thread and I know what looks like fluff isn't so fluffy. But I worry about someone stumbling across the first fic, ignoring/missing the warning on the second fic, and flaming me for not warning about the squick in question. Or reporting for issues that don't exist, for the fics that are on LJ.
I'm torn between retitling the series and forgetting which series I'm referring to and just leaving it as it is and trusting that people read the warnings. It also unsettles me to try to retitle the series because some of it *is* rather fluffy. Just parts of it are not.
For the moment, I'm leaving the title as is because I can keep better track of it. But I wonder someday if it it might be better to change it....
I tend to archive my series/universes, especially my unplanned ones, with the title of the first fic in series. This is not normally a problem. But when I was working on cataloguing some fic last night, I ran across the problem of a fic series where the title was much fluffier than quite a bit of the content.
( Fluffy title, not-so-fluffy fics )
Now, I think of this set of fics by the first story's title because to me, all of the stories contain the same (potentially disturbing) story thread and I know what looks like fluff isn't so fluffy. But I worry about someone stumbling across the first fic, ignoring/missing the warning on the second fic, and flaming me for not warning about the squick in question. Or reporting for issues that don't exist, for the fics that are on LJ.
I'm torn between retitling the series and forgetting which series I'm referring to and just leaving it as it is and trusting that people read the warnings. It also unsettles me to try to retitle the series because some of it *is* rather fluffy. Just parts of it are not.
For the moment, I'm leaving the title as is because I can keep better track of it. But I wonder someday if it it might be better to change it....