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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.

Date: 2011-02-04 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coffeebuddha.livejournal.com
But actual banners don't bother me that much. I tend to frown at them a little bit when they're really big and obnoxious, but for the most part I think of them as fanart that goes along with the fic. What I'm talking about are plain screencaps that haven't been altered in any way except for being cropped. To me it feels like the author looked at the story and said to themselves, 'Oh, I've written a fic. I'd better include a picture of the two main characters in each other's general vicinity so that the readers will know who they're reading about.' Most of the time the pictures don't even fit the feel of the fic. I saw one the other day that was for a piece of fluff that showed the characters glaring at the camera. I just don't get it.

Date: 2011-02-04 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmali.livejournal.com
Rest assured, dear one, I still love you. Rant on, my genius.

Date: 2011-02-04 02:41 am (UTC)

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