Summaries that are crap.

[ladydrace]

Hey, I'm so sorry for this, but I'm in a crap mood. (loooooong story)

So I just want to express my annoyance with summaries that are just a random line grabbed from the fic. Isn't a 'summary' supposed to 'summarize' the fic? It doesn't tell me dick about the fic if the summary is something along the line of: "Merlin was tired, when he entered Arthur's rooms." No it doesn't.  Pisses me off.

Sorry if anyone on my f-list does this. I don't hate you. I'm just pissed.

That is all.

Comments

[idanianspice.livejournal.com]

I'm not too crazy about those type of summaries, but I don't mind them if they at least point to what is going to take place in the fic. Like in your example, I would expect maybe, after a hard day of spellcasting, Merlin is going to get a nice full body massage and some hot handjob action from Arthur and then fall blissfully asleep. But if the story turns out to be them going to fight a dragon, or something, then I would really wonder WTF.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I don't mind a summary grabbed from the fic, if it just makes some sort of sense. My example... didn't.