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I have been entertained by various people on my flist ([personal profile] jmtorres here, [personal profile] damned_colonial here) posting some of the more amusing warnings they have used on their stories. My favorite set of warnings is A.J. Hall's rather comprehensive list on the cover page of her HP novel Dissipation and Despair, which includes among other things:
Atheists are warned that the local vicar is presented in a favourable light.
Catholics may be disturbed to learn that he is contemplating committing monogamy.
Mary-Sue haters are advised that he is an OC.
Looking through my own body of work, I think my favorite warning is for the HP Hermione/Everyone fic I wrote for the Blame Someone Else challenge, Four Funerals and a Wedding: Warnings for character deaths out the wazoo, and bad puns. (I had forgotten that this was translated into both Czech and Russian! I hope they managed to get the bad puns in there, which are after all the point of this story.)

On a more serious note, I have looked through my website, and all my stories with non-con or dubious consent are clearly labeled except for one, which I am about to label right now. Most of my stories with non-canonical character death are so labeled as well (or link to an optional warning); the exception is a due South story of mine which I agonized about, as some of you know, because (skip) Fraser dies in Across the Great Divide. But it's not permanent! and finally posted with no warning. (I had a couple of hints about the nature of the story in the header, and the character death is right up front in the first scene; as it happened, about a third of people who commented mentioned that they immediately read the ending at that point before continuing with the story.)

(Also, this is a test of [personal profile] amadi's magic warning code to see if I am doing it right!)

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Date: 2009-06-28 09:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ignaz
Warning code: ur doin it right!

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Date: 2009-06-30 07:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] accioslash
I've always been very pro-warning for any reason at all. But I really like humorous ones. It tells me more about the author and helps me decide if they are someone I think I'm going to want to spend time reading. If we don't really have a similar sense of humor, I've found that I generally don't quite get their other work either and it's better for me to give it a pass. But far more often I've found someone whose work I really enjoy.

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Date: 2009-07-01 01:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] franzeska
I hate it when people pile on the generic warnings, but weird, original ones are very helpful. And, man, it's hard to know how to warn for stories where people don't end up dead.

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