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[coffeebuddha]

Okay, I get title banners on fics. I don't like them all that much because most of the ones I saw when I was forming my opinion on them were huge and obnoxious*, but I get them. But has anyone else noticed the recent influx of people posting fics with random screencaps of the pairing in the header? Why do that? What's the point? Do you think I can't read well enough to figure out the pairing from the text? Do you think I don't know who the characters are?

I honestly don't know why this bugs the crap out of me, but it reallyreallyREALLY does.

*Slight edit for clarification.

Comments

[zilentdreamer.livejournal.com]

Sounds counterproductive. What would the point be? If the reader doesn't know who they are, why would they read it at all?

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And if you're posting to a comm for the show and the characters you're writing about are literally in every single episode, then chances are we know who they are.