[ SECRET POST #5205 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5205 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[When They Cry]


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03.
[Shadow and Bone on Netflix, based on the books by Leigh Bardugo]


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04.
[Word of Honor]


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05.
[I Am Still Alive]


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06.
[Car Talk]


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07.
[A/B/O]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 24 secrets from Secret Submission Post #745.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Dead dove question

[(Anonymous)]

(Anon who posed the question) Okay, that makes a bit more sense.

I was in part thinking of all the kink meme fills I did involving death/rape/mental illness/etc. and later found out the person who requested them had to stop reading my fill because apparently they were more detailed than they were expecting to get, and judging from the reviews after I posted to AO3, other people felt the same way. :P

Re: Dead dove question

[(Anonymous)]

(or actually I should say, not the anon who posed the ORIGINAL question, but this subthread under the original question)

...Now I'm reading the other responses to this and... I dunno? I guess that also makes sense?

Eh. I tag my stuff with the appropriate warnings already. Probably after a few such fics from me, if DD:DNE is warranted on this stuff, people figured that out.

Re: Dead dove question

[(Anonymous)]

A whole lot of people ITT are deeply mistaken about this tag. The best way to think of it is: the tag isn't redundant. It denotes something that can't be denoted with other tags. That's literally why it exists. Because there was a need for it.

So like, you don't need a DD:DNE tag for grooming and underage sex, because that's literally what the "grooming" "underage" tags are for. However, the DD:DNE tag is extremely useful and aptly used if the grooming and the underage sex in your fic are the kink. Because the use of grooming and underage tags don't tell you that information. They only tell you the subject matter, not how it's handled.

DD:DNE is extremely useful because plenty of people will be fine with reading dark content treated realistically, but will be very, very squicked by that same basic subject matter if it's handled as a kink or otherwise not treated realistically. So they may see a fic with some dark tags and not be sure whether to read it or not, because they don't know how that content will be handled in the fic. For instance, I will read a fic where James Moriarty rapes John Watson as an act of cruelty and be totally fine with reading that. But I am suuuper squicked by rape kink, so if Moriarty rapes John Watson as an act of cruelty but the way it's written in the fic is meant to be titillating, then that's a huge no from me, dog.

If DD:DNE merely meant "heed the tags," as the people in this thread mistakenly believe, then it would be redundant. What makes it useful is that it's not about what content you can expect from the fic, it's about how you can expect that content to be handled.

Re: Dead dove question

[(Anonymous)]

OP of thread

This is what I thought, thank you!

Re: Dead dove question

[(Anonymous)]

Very well put!!!