[ SECRET POST #2187 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2187 ⌋

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

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06. [SPOILERS for Once Upon a Time]



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07. [SPOILERS for amazing spiderman]



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08. [SPOILERS for Nu52 Stormwatch]



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09. [WARNING for rape, sexual assault, gore]

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10. [WARNING for rape]



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11. [WARNING for abuse]



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12. [WARNING for child sexual abuse]



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13. [WARNING for rape]



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14. [WARNING for violence, RL deaths]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (not broken, but being reported as malicious?) - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Putting sexual abuse under a general warning for "angst" is inappropriate. Assuming the author wasn't trying to hurt people, I'd suspect they don't interpret what they wrote as being that severe.

Which ... can be a sign that your fic author is an abuse survivor, especially if what they wrote was realistic enough to connect with things that actually happened to you. IME, most fic written by people who are unimaginatively throwing in *the worst angst they can think of* is as harmless as it is boring, even when rape and dubcon is had.

I was with you right up until you started complaining about the end of the fic. I understand that it was infuriating, painful, and not what you needed to be reading. But it may still have been what the author needed to be writing. Fandom as a whole is very sympathetic to the idea that certain kinds of fucked-up romances should not exist, or should be hidden behind a thick wall of "I, the writer, recognize this is completely problematic and wrong." You'll find lots of people who feel that way. But to some of us, stories like that feel like a deep tissue massage. They hurt, but afterward, we hurt less. So I really want a solution were you don't have to read bad-for-you!thing and I don't have to give up good-for-me!thing.

I have no idea which fandom this secret refers to, and chances are, I'm not in it. So I'm not defending the particular story. It's just that this dynamic (attacking a fanfic writer because they wrote something dark and triggering, and the community taking sides based on who they'd rather not do without) has come up before, and regardless of who wins, I think it's a power struggle that shouldn't exist. You shouldn't have felt like you had to leave the fandom. But the fandom shouldn't have felt like they had to defend the story to you, because not doing so would mean it was badwrong and so was the author. Because it was fought along those lines, it sounds like everyone lost.