fandomsecrets | [ SECRET POST #562 ]

⌈ Secret Post #562 ⌋

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I agree here, too, actually. My beef is with the people who gleefully refuse to use warnings out of some sense of 'they should know better' or the idea that anyone with trigger issues is a wuss who shouldn't be on the internet. I firmly disagree with the idea of telling/ordering someone to use warnings. At that point it's time to step back and say 'okay, well, it's just not worth it to me to read your fic.'

I'm aware that the above opinion rides the line of hypocrisy, but it's fandom!secrets, where we can object to something without necessarily taking it on as a personal cause (all evidence of my comments about this scattered throughout the thread notwithstanding).

Though, one last thing I would like to add--since there's no way to tell the people who disapprove of having to warn for stuff from the people who do and just aren't posting a story that needs warnings, I do kind of wish the former group were easier to recognize. I know some of the people on my flist have a comment in their profiles about the level of squick possible in the stories found on that journal--but there again, I hate the idea of actively telling people 'you have to do this.'

Which just leads me to the very situation that got me thinking about this--I read an SGA deathfic without a deathfic warning and it was a fabulous story but oh god it kind of still haunts me. I wouldn't have read it had I known. It's a bittersweet thing, because really, it was a *good* story, and I hate to miss out. Ahh, conundrum.

I kinda see what you're getting at there. I'm not really on board with the way the OP worded the secret, either (the implication that people with issues are just pussies), though I agree with the sentiment.

One final thing, though - I hate, hate, HATE deathfic warnings. I don't want to know that a character is going to die! Shock me, please. It's practically a spoiler. :/

One final thing, though - I hate, hate, HATE deathfic warnings. I don't want to know that a character is going to die! Shock me, please. It's practically a spoiler. :/

Oh GOD, I know! It's like... ugh, I'm being pulled in two equally important directions. Because really, I used to be on the 'don't warn for deathfic' camp and then I read that story and I really didn't need to have the ability to call up that sadness and remorse for reading it whenever I wanted to, you know? I am extra sensitive as it is, and I don't think I'll ever forget what reading that reveal felt like. *facepalm* it's a lose/lose, because I don't want to be spoiled, but nor do I want to end up emotionally invested in something that goes sideways, not when it's not canon. So I'm a walking contradiction!

....I am curious about this story now.

It's called A Hundred Words For Snow (http://atlantis-chat.livejournal.com/16188.html) (by

icantfollow), (and now it has the warning up) and it's a beautiful, heartwrenching story about second chances and not always taking them, even when you never should have gotten the second chance in the first place. SGA fic, John/Rodney.

It's so wonderful, I can't rec it enough, it's just for me, the combo of it being deathfic and the way the story went was a one-two punch that I can't get out of my head.

Thank you kindly for the link! :)

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