User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-4814726-20130126151827/@comment-5659316-20130126181454

"I'm pretty that Julian and Capps were catering to the slash fans lately, ex. wrestling on the floor with Arthur trouserless, Arthur coming up behind Merlin not wearing trousers" -That's not NESSARILY catering to slash fans. It's something slash fans CAN twist to their tastes, yes, but it can also just be seen as regular sitcom/drama comedy moments. The SITUATIONS are funny just because seeing two guys (one of them with his pants falling down) wrestling in front of a confused-looking royal counsel is just hyesterical, for its own merits, in the most innocent way you can look at it. In fact, I personally feel that viewing as a "slashy" "Merthur" moment kind of RUINS that scene. It's FUNNY because Merlin's trying to get that key off of Arthur's belt and is willing to publicly embarrass him by dropping his pants and tackling him to the ground to do so, so he can save the dragon's egg and keep up his 'idiot servant' facade at the same time. In my opinon, viewing it as an...er...how shall I put this...? A front... Or implication, maybe... For something highly inapproiate for them to have been doing... Well then it's not as funny anymore.

"Personally I don't mind reading a bit of slash" -Well, bully for you! But that doesn't mean the rest of us want to read about them doing it in a SUMMARY of a story when trying to find an entirely different kind of fic! A polite, to the point, non X-rated warning is enough, thank you very much! That's my point. People can write whatever they want; I'm not the fanfiction police. But, at least as far as summaries go, use good taste and judgement! Really!

That's what drives me crazy about Merthur shippers. They seem to think that if you find their explict summaries offensive or if you'd rather skip over their stuff, you're a bigot. Um, hello! I don't call people who don't like my Freylin stories prejudiced against boy/girl relionships, do I? Come on, people, seriously...

 "Stories where Merlin gets pregnant, I find them amusing as well, I don't get all serious and mad at the author." -I don't get MAD at the author. Like I would waste a perfectly good emotion such as anger on something THAT weird! But, come on, you do know Merlin's a DUDE, right? And it's not that I'm all "serious", I just dislike random idioticy. And it's not like I dish out what I can't take or anything. You have NO idea how much crud/flack I've gotten for my own writing and pairing preferences, in various fandoms.

Good for you, if you find slash and pregnant warlock stories amusing, I really don't care. I just find it absurd that these "writers" need to shovel this stuff into their summaries.

 The rating thing youre talking about is legit, but I think you'll more feedback about it from fanfiction.net than you will on Merlin wiki. -Thanks for admitting the rating thing is a legitmate problem; but I happen to have a link to my fanfiction on this wiki, and a link to my wiki profile/blogs on my fanfiction. With them all linked up like that, this strikes me as the best way to get my point across.