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cimoreneThe planets have aligned and, in the wake of the recent full-blown Warnings Kerfluffle seen on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom which I even commented on myself, I have found so far three WarningFails (or rather I've found one and aeslis has found two). I won't post the special issue until I find five, so if you spot one, feel free to forward it.
Also, I thought perhaps it was time for me to make a FAQ/FMC (frequently made comments). As usual, there are five.
1. Is she serious?
I probably don't know, because generally I don't actually open the stories. Sometimes I do, of course, and in the past, I have looked at plenty, so the odds are that yes, no matter how hard you find it to believe that anyone could say that seriously, the author is probably serious. Don't lie, there was a time when you didn't understand irony, too.
2. I actually want to read that one!
If you are serious, which is totally legit - because reading these can be very fun! - I probably don't have the link anymore, and it would frequently be very hard to find it again, because I go surfing back months or years in the communities/archives/tags I take the headers from, and I usually save a month's worth or more at a time! However, remember that these are direct quotes, so it's quite possible you'd have some luck putting them into Google or a Delicious.com search box. Especially with the summaries, because it's particularly common for people to put those in the comment box.
3. Where do you FIND all these, anyway????
The below used to be true, but since 2013 or so it has been just as simple to find them on AO3, either in the course of browsing or in the Recent Bookmarks and Recent Works pages.
Sometimes I find them in archives. When I say a "plebe archive", I mean an open archive that accepts any submissions and contains lots of funny ones. Classic examples would be FanFiction.Net, also affectionately known as the Pit of Voles, or Wraithbait, the Stargate:Atlantis archive also affectionately known (by me) as the Rodney McKay, Angsty Goth Teeny archive.
Sometimes I find them by delicious-surfing. I do this by going to delicious.com and looking at the Recent page for a pairing tag and by following links to individual people's bookmarks.
Most often I find them at plebe communities on LJ. By "plebe community", I mean a community that is mostly full of newbies, teens, and people not well-versed in media-fandom culture/etiquette. Sometimes this group encompasses a whole fandom - that was the case in My Chemical Romance fandom before the big media-fan influx around 2006-07. It is also the case in many anime & Asian RPS fandoms. Communities I check frequently are
4. I think/know that #n was intentionally funny!
The odds are that I noticed that, too. Actually, a great number of people are intentionally witty in their headers, regardless of the quality of writing, which should come as no surprise since writing ability is not particularly closely correlated with sense of humor. Of course, I may or may not agree with you as to whether unintentional humor was also present.
5. #n was actually not plebefic/ I read it and liked it!
Great! I sometimes read them and like them too. This may or may not mean that I consider it plebefic, but that isn't the case by any means with all of them. The presence of a header here means only that I found it in a plebefic community/place and it struck me as funny (or horrifying...).
6. What's wrong with #n?
My dad always taught me not to explain jokes because it robs them of all their humor...
metafandom which I even commented on myself, I have found so far three WarningFails (or rather I've found one and aeslis has found two). I won't post the special issue until I find five, so if you spot one, feel free to forward it. Also, I thought perhaps it was time for me to make a FAQ/FMC (frequently made comments). As usual, there are five.
1. Is she serious?
I probably don't know, because generally I don't actually open the stories. Sometimes I do, of course, and in the past, I have looked at plenty, so the odds are that yes, no matter how hard you find it to believe that anyone could say that seriously, the author is probably serious. Don't lie, there was a time when you didn't understand irony, too.
2. I actually want to read that one!
If you are serious, which is totally legit - because reading these can be very fun! - I probably don't have the link anymore, and it would frequently be very hard to find it again, because I go surfing back months or years in the communities/archives/tags I take the headers from, and I usually save a month's worth or more at a time! However, remember that these are direct quotes, so it's quite possible you'd have some luck putting them into Google or a Delicious.com search box. Especially with the summaries, because it's particularly common for people to put those in the comment box.
3. Where do you FIND all these, anyway????
The below used to be true, but since 2013 or so it has been just as simple to find them on AO3, either in the course of browsing or in the Recent Bookmarks and Recent Works pages.
Sometimes I find them by delicious-surfing. I do this by going to delicious.com and looking at the Recent page for a pairing tag and by following links to individual people's bookmarks.
Most often I find them at plebe communities on LJ. By "plebe community", I mean a community that is mostly full of newbies, teens, and people not well-versed in media-fandom culture/etiquette. Sometimes this group encompasses a whole fandom - that was the case in My Chemical Romance fandom before the big media-fan influx around 2006-07. It is also the case in many anime & Asian RPS fandoms. Communities I check frequently are
- slashatthedisco, patrickxpeter, & frankxgerard: Bandom plebefic comms for Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy's monolith OTP of Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump, plus one of the main MCR communities.
- deancastiel: Supernatural slash for Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) and new season4+ character, the woobie(?) angel Castiel played by Misha Collins. In fact, Sam/Dean and Jared/Jensen are, if anything, better sources of plebefic if only because they're older, but I've never been a big fan of the pairings and don't regularly visit them. Also, I've never located any central communities for them. (They probably exist. I'm just saying I haven't seen them.)
- gibbs_dinozzo: NCIS community for the monolithic OTP Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon).
- In the past (as you'll see if you go back via the headers&summaries or badfic tags) so-called "pundit slash" or The Daily Show RPS has been a rich source, particularly Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert. The volume is low, though, because the fandom is so extremely small. The fiction is often flocked, too, because the members are unusually paranoid about the celebrities finding the slash, even though they also contain an inordinate number of tinhats. tds_rps and fakenews_fanfic were the main sources I used.
- jent_fanfics: Johnny's Entertainment Fanfic, J-pop RPS community which is the source of most or all of the Japanese-fandom stuff I post. I didn't check it myself originally when aeslis was collecting them, but in her absence I've started visiting personally.
- kradam_ai: Kris Allen/Adam Lambert RPS from American Idol
- holmeswatson09 & holmes_rpf - new Sherlock Holmes movie-related
4. I think/know that #n was intentionally funny!
The odds are that I noticed that, too. Actually, a great number of people are intentionally witty in their headers, regardless of the quality of writing, which should come as no surprise since writing ability is not particularly closely correlated with sense of humor. Of course, I may or may not agree with you as to whether unintentional humor was also present.
5. #n was actually not plebefic/ I read it and liked it!
Great! I sometimes read them and like them too. This may or may not mean that I consider it plebefic, but that isn't the case by any means with all of them. The presence of a header here means only that I found it in a plebefic community/place and it struck me as funny (or horrifying...).
6. What's wrong with #n?
My dad always taught me not to explain jokes because it robs them of all their humor...
