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[ SECRET POST #6797 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6797 ⌋

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05. [WARNING for discussion of IRL rape/assault/pedophilia]

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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia/related topics]

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More inspired by the angry anon in the comments for secret #6.

What are your thoughts on fandom writing "sensitive" topics? Anon seems to think eating disorders are a step too far - do you have a personal topic you feel that way about?

Just tag it correctly so I can avoid it. Otherwise, I don't care.

No. I might feel personal distaste at something or the way someone chose to depict something or disgust at an author for doing it, but like "this topic is Too Far for fiction and must be stopped on moral principle"? Not really, no.

Pretty much, yeah. As long as I am not forced to partake, then you go and do you and I'll be over here silently judging but letting you do your thing.

Yeah, pretty much.

Concentration Camp/Holocaust AUs are never something I will be on board with. Not gonna say they should be banned or anything, but I will never read one and will probably distance myself/unfollow people who tend to write them.

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Real-world and historical atrocities are too far for me, as you said I won't say it should be banned and there are likely examples that I would find tastefully done (after all, there is well written published fiction that takes place in such settings and treats the subject seriously) but everything I've come across in fandom I personally felt was in very bad taste and trivializing of the real events. Especially if it's used as a backdrop for shipping, wtf?

There's no shortage of really terrible and trivializing published fiction about the Holocaust, too!

ayrt

Very true unfortunately.

Everyone can write about anything they want forever. Just tag it.

No. The weirder, darker and more extreme and in depth the better.
I think that fandom is exactly the right space to have as an outlet for "sensitive" topics. Published works have restrictions, are linked to people's real names and a lot of them are published in countries with UHM puritanical views. So not all trauma or kinks or fears can be freely discussed. Pseudonymous non commercial writing can bypass all those restrictions.

Sure, 99.9% or the works you find are not that great, some of them are outright offensive, but them there is that 0.1% that is full catharsis for you and it will finally make you feel seen. Happened to be. A fanfic helped me a lot in a moment where I felt like I was drowning in my grief.

Just tag it, put a warning. I will read it if I'm interested or when I'm ready. If I don't read maybe someone else will. And maybe they will too find comfort in being seen by an author that can put into words what they are going through.

(tldr: just let people write what they want. who cares. it's just fandom :/)

Its definitely a case by case sort of thing. I don't think all sensitive issues are off the table, and sometimes they're more connect to the source than people realize (for example in Star Trek, there's mention of Kirk having survived a famine and mass murder on a planet in his youth. There's fics that have in turn explored how he might have a difficult relationship with food after that which could potentially result in developing an ED of some sort).
Then there are fics that some people may write as a way to vent in the form of an AU or just explore dark ideas, and as long as those fics are tagged properly then they can be avoided.

The only time its rubbed me the wrong was has been people being directly distasteful under very specific circumstances - like people taking RPF to heart and sending them to the people they're about as 'proof' of a relationship that doesn't exist - or the time I was in the Hetalia fandom and saw someone write a fic about a war while said war was happening irl.

Honestly as long as its a fictional scenario that is tagged properly and people can be responsible enough to understand what they themselves are ok with reading, then it should be fine.

Fanfics that are culturally insensitive without explicit warnings. Riddled with stereotypes or portraying some people as subhuman.
I also hate authors that use the word "creature" towards a person, usually poor.
I hate it in the books as well.

No. I read and write stories as an addition to my therapy and journaling. Nobody gets to tell me how I get to deal with my own mental health. Don’t like, don’t read.

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