[ SECRET POST #2628 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2628 ⌋

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

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07. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]



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08. [SPOILERS for The Wayfarer Redemption series/Sinner]
[WARNING for rape/incest]



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09. [WARNING for suicide]



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11. [WARNING for rape/abuse/etc (unmarked by OP, but I'd assume it applies)]



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12. [WARNING for rape]



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13. [WARNING for eating disorders]

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Late, but definitely have something to add. (OP here.)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

All I was saying was that a lot of writer's seemed to lump the two (rape-fantasy and actual rape) together or they forgot to label it correctly which meant that I started to read what I thought was a psychological fic only to discover that it was yet another fantasy. I know that there is a difference I'm just tired of seeing writers blanket classify it all instead of separating the fantasy and reality in their warnings.

That's not at all what your secret said, though. Your secret was complaining that rape in fanfic is unrealistically written, not that it's mislabeled.

For the record, I completely agree with you that fandom needs to be better about how it labels rapefic. For every author I've seen who clearly and accurately tags for the precise variety of nonconsent in her fic, there are a dozen who mislabel it (usually by downplaying its severity; I have read way too many stories tagged "mildly dubious consent" in which the sex was completely nonconsensual, no "mildly dubious" about it). And, yes, it would be a good thing if more people distinguished between fantastical and realistic portrayals of rape and let readers know upfront which one their fic contains. Maybe lead with that complaint next time, though, rather than scolding fanfic writers for getting their fantasies all over your chosen field of study.

And on that topic, I think you're disregarding how useful these fics could potentially be to someone with an academic interest in people's psychological responses to rape. Are 99% of rapefics unrealistic? Yes, unquestionably. But why are they unrealistic in these particular ways, and what are authors and readers getting out of them, and how do these widely shared fantasies reflect people's real-life fears and concerns? These are complicated questions, and it's hard to get concrete data for them without asking people in fandom a lot of intrusive questions (which I don't recommend you doing, btw; at least not until you've gotten proper instruction in how to conduct ethical surveys, which hopefully you will in your college psych classes), but they're still worth thinking about now.