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⌈ Secret Post #6270 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I actually find this example really interesting for how trigger warnings can be used in storytelling. The unease you experienced sounds unintentional, but could possibly be put to deliberate use in another story that focuses more on the harassment themes? The way it made you uncertain of the male characters' intentions sounds like an interesting side effect of the choice to warn. I find very specific trigger warnings for brief, non graphic scenes to usually feel out of place but it is the author's choice in the end and I can always skip the warnings if I want to remain spoiler free. You've got me thinking about how trigger warnings can affect the mood of a story now, in potentially cool ways, too.

[(Anonymous)]

! Ooh, yeah, I've seen a couple examples of this I think! The Homestuck Epilogues had an extremely long and flippant (but still accurate list) of trigger warnings (ie listing stuff like "Clown dynamics" and "Gerrymandering" alongside stuff like abuse etc) which definitely did something to set the tone. The other thing is Too Like the Lightning, a book which presents itself as an in-universe document from a future with some weird censorship laws, so there are content warnings which double as a little taste of worldbuilding. But I bet there are other interesting things you could do with that, would love to see some horror making creative use of warnings.

[(Anonymous)]

An example that comes to mind for me is the chapter content warnings for the webcomic What Happens Next, where I feel a sense of dread waiting to see "how" it happens, which works really well for me in the general sad, funny, and tense tone of the comic. I think also the way the comic jumps around backwards and forwards in time makes having a glimpse of the bad things to come kinda unnerving. The current chapter has a content warning for suicide, for instance, which I appreciate as a trigger warning personally and also feel so much narrative dread and suspense from, not knowing what it means for the characters.

Idk, I would love to see the structure of content warnings used in horror, could be really cool in a thriller. It's a bummer that OP had a disappointing experience with the book they read but the effect they got from the warnings has me intrigued to think about.