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Harvey if he were a gamer

Comics that are actually good

Comics that are actually easy to find and comprehensible for a new reader

Comics that are considered Important

Comics that are actually important to the character's history

Comics that are bad and hard to find and incomprehensible but damn if they don't perfectly scratch that itch of characterization/my OTP/blorbo is Suffering

Everything the character has appeared in

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

Go here for the PDF, or here to view the whole document as a tumblr post.

I recommend the PDF.