I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Hadrian" yet.

 

"Trigger Warning" that is all.

 

Suicide, suicidal, etc. Tries to kill himself. Or anything similar really.

 

I was curious what is a trigger warning…

I chuckled. (emphasis mine)

Also, "Draco", "Severus" & "Mate" = instant :facepalm

 

For me, I think that 'Dumbledork' is the most egregious, followed by some capitalization variant of 'MoRon.' (If ever I needed a reminder that the average fanfiction writer has a maturity level somewhat beneath that of my son...).

 

Bad thing to base a search on, since you'd skip all of the
"On the train to Hogwarts, Harry meets..."

Then again, most summaries like these wouldn't draw my eyes anyway.


In any case, I jumped here to say that I try not to look, well, a summary in it's bad words. I usually judge the thing as a whole, and even while I will jump out because of mpregs and slash mentions in the summary, the other parts of description would have already told me why I don't want to read it, rather than the, pardon the expression, trigger (;D) words themselves .

 

'Bad summary, but the story is better' or 'Gets better in later chapters'

Because it generally doesn't get better

 

Use of Japanese terms for no goddamn reason.

Oh man, I just can't stand it every time it's just "teme" this and "dobe" that. "Baka baka."

For fuck's sake, you're writing in English. Just write in English.

 

Katana.

/10char

 

What if Harry was darker then he should be?

A certain NO unless someone recommends it

 

"What if a certain Slytherin Ice Queen trained Hadrian Peverell Potter Black in how to unleash his Slytherin side? What if the manipulative old coot wanted to keep Hadrian from Draco and Severus, his soul mates? A darker Harry is ready to destroy his enemies (with a katana). Slash. MPreg. Weasley/Dumbles/Moldyshorts-bashing. Trigger warning: suicide."

I'm sure I've seen almost exactly that summary a hundred times before.

 

Saddest part is, that you are right.

 

You forgot the part where it said: "I will post when I get enough reviews."

 

'I suck at summaries'

 

I love this response. I may have to quote you sometime when DLP's incessant need to categorise things gets out of hand.

 

The "trigger warning: suicide" is a warning that reading it will make you want to kill yourself.

 

Don't like; don't read (or any derivation thereof).

 

Pretty much this. Also 'Harry is betrayed by his friends'. I rarely even go to ff.net anymore because the site is flooded with these stories. :facepalm

 

"A lot can happen in nineteen years..."

"What happened during those nineteen years..."

"Filling in the nineteen years..."

"Nineteen years is a long time..."

"My take on the nineteen years..."



We all know what happens during the nineteen year gap! Everyone gets married, everyone has kids, everything is happy and boring, fuck you, the end. I don't want to read about it!

(Unless it's a police investigation style fic following Harry and Ron as Aurors. That would be cool.)