[ SECRET POST #2492 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2492 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap, I really wonder where all this trigger shit is going down. I'm in a mid-sized fandom (Batman/DC Comics), and I'm very active on Tumblr, and I never once ran into this. I warn for all the big triggers like abuse, violence, rape etc., but I know I've slipped up a couple times and forgot to tag some heavy content, and nobody ever yelled at me for it. Or at others I know, and I follow some pretty popular people. (The only time I ever saw tag drama, it was related to some stupid ship wank.)

I really wonder, does this accumulate in some of the really busy fandoms, like Marvel or SPN or what? I really don't see as much of that around than the complaints would suggest.

Also, what kind of asshole yells at you for something you actually DID warn for. I mean really.

[tabaqui]

Man, this. I'm looking at Tumblr and seeing a fairly diverse range of stuff and nowhere am i seeing this kind of craziness.

[(Anonymous)]

Concerning nobody "yelling at you about it", in my experience the people who are actually legitimately triggered (not someone screaming about being "triggered" by pictures of a lamp), feel they're being too picky and don't want to bother the person who slipped up. They're already feeling shitty, y'know from being triggered and all, and probably just want to move on, maybe thinking it was a one-time slip up. That's what I do, I just let it go and hope that it doesn't happen again. It's hard to speak up about it, especially with this "EWW SJWs RUINING EVERYTHING LOL GET OVER YOURSELVES DON'T GO ON THE INTERNET BABIES" when people just want tags for rape, murder, lynching, etc. makes me at least feel a lot worse about it.

I'm sure it can be found in most fandoms, but yes the bigger ones are worse about it. Supernatural and Sherlock especially.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Yeah sorry, I could've worded that better. I understand that some people have serious triggers, and I think trigger warnings in general are a good thing. I do regret it when I don't tag something that I later realize might upset people, and I usually edit to add them if I forgot.

My comment was more directed at that complaint that "Man, trigger culture has gotten so heavy you can't even post cupcakes/cute frogs/some pebbles/close-ups of hands/other random shit that wouldn't immediately strike you as triggering." Because I've never seen it happen.

[nyxelestia]

Also, what kind of asshole yells at you for something you actually DID warn for. I mean really.

That's been happening for a long-ass time, actually. I once got a long private message about how much of an insensitive asshole I was for my fic with non-con and torture in it even though they were clearly in the warnings. Even better was getting yelled for the homophobia in a fic that not only had the homophobia labelled but whose entire plot revolved around my main characters combating homophobia. -_-

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Yeah, that's what baffles me. I write a fair share of non-con and violent stuff too, and I warn for it, and I never had this problem. Why would you (general you) willingly read something that YOU KNOW will bother you, only to complain to the writer afterwards? It makes no sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Yelled at for warning about and depicting homophobia as bad?

As a homo I'm just here going ...fuck off.

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This problem goes both ways

[nyxelestia]

On one hand, I have had someone get mad at me for using homophobic slurs (they didn't seem all that concerned about the homophobia in general, just the slurs) in a short, somewhat fluffy* fic whose entire point is the teenage gay couple coming out together and needing to fight off some homophobic bullies as a result. *eyeroll*

On the flip side, I've had someone remark that my child abuse tag was excessive on a fic in which the main characters, who are 12-13, are kidnapped, drugged, held captive and occasionally beaten or have their life-force drained out of them. WTF.

And these were both years ago. The Warnings politics has grown WAY out of control since then...



* = teenage espionage fandom, so the implications that one of the characters has to stop himself from actually killing anyone counted as fluffy in the context of the fandom

[abharding]

I think part of is some people only want to read fic about the world as they think it should be rather then it actually is...

[armlessphelan]

Generally, if a fandom has canon gays or prominent non-white characters is where it's the wankiest over trigger warnings.