User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-5598897-20130125221228/@comment-5659316-20130125233837

My problem with rough content in Merlin stories is not that (regardless of the pairing) it's THERE, but that it's often IN THE SUMMARY! Especially when it comes to Merthur.

At least with Arwen/Freylin even if the content of a story is not clean (as many of them aren't) they are polite enough, usually, to keep the summaries clean and rely on ratings and warnings to do their job without being fresh in the breif story description.

For example, while not explict, there was some darker content in my Freylin stories "Merlin Und Freya" and "The Sorcerer's Mistress" but I kept my summaries and titles clean as anything, and rated the stories T instead of K+ to show the age group I was writing for. Now, to be fair, also, the content was mostly just implied and entirely needed for the plot's progression, otherwise it wouldn't have been there, but my point is I respected (as the site guildences SAY YOU HAVE TO!) by having it ONLY it in the STORY ITSELF where everyone who reads it will already KNOW more or less what they're in for.

But Merthur fans haven't been doing this. It's like these twinky thirteen year olds who think the actors are "hawt" are trying to shove the fact that they ship slash pairings in the faces of the rest of us. And that's sick and disrespectful. I don't want to read the content IN their Merlin/Arthur stories, why on EARTH would I want to read it in passing on their summaries?!