Well, even in a bookstore a book can sometimes get deliberately shelved in more than one place.
Descriptively, what is considered to be worth warning for tends to be a combination of author's preference and community norms. People who think similarly on these subjects tend to clump together, or else adapt to the norms of the people to which they are clumped (if that makes any sense). Prescriptively, I'd prefer it to be author's preference, yes, or else all fashioned to my preferences (I'm joking). Rape is nearly universally considered necessary to warn for, although I wouldn't argue that derives from any categorical imperative but rather just a very pervasive community norm spanning many sub-communities.
And in fandom, genre preferences get caught up with our fannish identities so easily. I didn't start out a femslasher, but I joined femslash_minis and one thing led to another.
I think we are moving beyond genres in some way in that few people actually put the genre on their fic itself, but something like genre still seems to have a pretty huge pull on us. I'm not sure that's a bad thing as long as people are satisfied with what they're reading and writing, but I know that's not always the case, which is sad.
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Descriptively, what is considered to be worth warning for tends to be a combination of author's preference and community norms. People who think similarly on these subjects tend to clump together, or else adapt to the norms of the people to which they are clumped (if that makes any sense). Prescriptively, I'd prefer it to be author's preference, yes, or else all fashioned to my preferences (I'm joking). Rape is nearly universally considered necessary to warn for, although I wouldn't argue that derives from any categorical imperative but rather just a very pervasive community norm spanning many sub-communities.
And in fandom, genre preferences get caught up with our fannish identities so easily. I didn't start out a femslasher, but I joined
I think we are moving beyond genres in some way in that few people actually put the genre on their fic itself, but something like genre still seems to have a pretty huge pull on us. I'm not sure that's a bad thing as long as people are satisfied with what they're reading and writing, but I know that's not always the case, which is sad.