Sorry, didn't successfully manage to post this as a reply to you. A little distracted.
- Anaryn's always claimed that the flashy thing didn't work on her or she would use it on herself to forget the holocaust. - I *think* we've handled it acceptably for people who have had such things happen to them. (I have fortunately never been the victim of said crime, but I have relatives who have) but I'll leave it up to Neko how he'd like to handle in his journal - I have it marked as dealing with dark topics on my end. - During the demon invasion it was never stated, but implied what had happened when Sareth asked.
A trigger warning is where you put a statement at the top of a post, letting people know that said post contains things that may trigger flashbacks or severe emotions in someone who has been a victim of something that's in the post, like, for instance in this one, rape. Usually bolded to make sure it is seen.
It's very helpful to those who might otherwise stumble on a post like this and end up having flashbacks or an anxiety attack, because they weren't expecting to come across something that would remind them of the bad thing they experienced.
Hmm. Well I tried putting one in, but I'm not sure if it's going to help. The trigger warning must, by definition, mention what it is warning about, so you get a kind of recursive loop. Let me know if I did it wrong.
Oh, I wasn't saying it hadn't been handled well. The problem is, for some people, having to read about it at all can take you back there.
(I have, thankfully, never been there either, but due to other circumstances, even the most innocuous discussions of physical or emotional abuse can do nasty things to me at times, especially if I don't know ahead of time what I'm about to see, so trigger warnings really are a good thing, even when the material is handled in a cautious way.)
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- Anaryn's always claimed that the flashy thing didn't work on her or she would use it on herself to forget the holocaust.
- I *think* we've handled it acceptably for people who have had such things happen to them. (I have fortunately never been the victim of said crime, but I have relatives who have) but I'll leave it up to Neko how he'd like to handle in his journal - I have it marked as dealing with dark topics on my end.
- During the demon invasion it was never stated, but implied what had happened when Sareth asked.
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What's a trigger warning?
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It's very helpful to those who might otherwise stumble on a post like this and end up having flashbacks or an anxiety attack, because they weren't expecting to come across something that would remind them of the bad thing they experienced.
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(I have, thankfully, never been there either, but due to other circumstances, even the most innocuous discussions of physical or emotional abuse can do nasty things to me at times, especially if I don't know ahead of time what I'm about to see, so trigger warnings really are a good thing, even when the material is handled in a cautious way.)
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