hi, my triggers, let me show you them.

[whitereflection]

FFFFFFFFF. Surprise deathfics are NEVER cool. Asdfsksdfjsdk goddamn, *warnings* PLEASE. ARGHL. Stupid stupid ff.net author, I don't care if you were one of those rare examples of good technical writing over there, I will never read you ever again. I'd rather read crap that's poorly spelled and with crap grammar that uses warnings than someone whose writing is awesome but that can't bother to slap a warning: major character death up at the top (or even a See warnings at bottom and then put the death warning there, because yes, I do check).

Hate, hate, *hate* how I feel after reading something like that. I don't care if it's handled in a "they're in a better place now" sort of way. I don't LIKE reading that and I wouldn't have read it at all if they would have bothered to warn. But no, now even though I stopped at the line of "never woke up again" and only briefly glanced at the next bit to see that yes, character x had indeed died, I'm going to feel crappy the rest of the evening.

Son of a biscuit. Always worse when it's some really long, multichapter fic, too. Nice to get really drawn in, and them BAM. (And especially awesome when they took fourteen chapters to get a character to work through why he shouldn't be suicidal and should live, despite a disability and BAM OH HEY ILLNESS BAI. Fuck. What was the *point*? Might as well have let them use the gun first chapter. I just. ARGH.)