I have to say, I'm rather disappointed to see a fdk thread become yet ANOTHER discussion about death-fics. Seriously, the horse is dead, and has been flogged to tiny shreds. If this conversation must be rehashed again (and I'm not sure why it does, since it seems everyone who has an opinion on the topic (including me, to be sure) has expressed it at least two or three times), a fdk thread is not the place.
Posting a fic like this is extremely brave, given the current environment on this board. (An environment that has made it a place that I personally am far less inclined to visit.) If it were me, I would be a bit nervous about whether I would get much fdk, or whether people would just skip my deathfic. Imagine seeing the number of messages in the thread, and then opening it to find fewer than half of the posts actual fdk.
I thought the warning at the top of the story was extremely respectful of those who have expressed not wanting to read deathfics. It's really a shame that equal respect for the fic's author could not have been shown.
