Absolutely! But the same way I know my idea of a good summary - short excerpts from the story - is a turn off to a lot of people, whatever the intention, saying "no need to know the fandom" will be a turnoff to some people. And that some includes me. :)

Certainly, if I know the fandom and the writer, I will use that as a guide to read more than the declarations that you don't need to know the fandom, but I won't read stories where I don't know the fandom and saying I don't need to know it makes me that much more less likely to read.

And I feel like we're getting off-topic in our friend's lj!