writing BDSM fic, familiar with my stuff or not, will limit the hell out of your audience.
Starting at the end... Oh yes. I know that. But the circle I (we) move in, even if it's not really their thing, are at least relatively familiar with the idea and I tend to forget that there are a lot of people who aren't.
I'm not sure set-up's the right word for it,
No, probably not, and I didn't mean a bit spiel at the beginning or anything, just getting the info in surreptitiously throughout the fic - and, as you say, in the header.
Of course, Lessons Learned (though that's not the only thing I'm referring to here) is interesting in this respect because it is a first-time fic, and I felt the setting up was done in the fic. But maybe I was assuming that everyone else saw angry, scary Nine as really hot and dominant (which was my starting point for the fic), when actually they don't. Of course they don't!
In not-first-time fics, I would normally include a little bit of the history - like in Constant there were references to Nine/Jack etc.
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writing BDSM fic, familiar with my stuff or not, will limit the hell out of your audience.
Starting at the end... Oh yes. I know that. But the circle I (we) move in, even if it's not really their thing, are at least relatively familiar with the idea and I tend to forget that there are a lot of people who aren't.
I'm not sure set-up's the right word for it,
No, probably not, and I didn't mean a bit spiel at the beginning or anything, just getting the info in surreptitiously throughout the fic - and, as you say, in the header.
Of course, Lessons Learned (though that's not the only thing I'm referring to here) is interesting in this respect because it is a first-time fic, and I felt the setting up was done in the fic. But maybe I was assuming that everyone else saw angry, scary Nine as really hot and dominant (which was my starting point for the fic), when actually they don't. Of course they don't!
In not-first-time fics, I would normally include a little bit of the history - like in Constant there were references to Nine/Jack etc.