Today can bite me

[cornerofmadness]

Okay let me ask you if you saw a story with a graphic violence warning and tagged medical torture and serial killers in a fandom where you know the serial killer dissected people (and saw the prompt of Martin nearly killed Malcolm and that’s how he was caught) wouldn’t you assume it contained gore? The first comment to my story was some anonymous

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[evil_little_dog]

Well that's a kind of creepy dream.

[cornerofmadness]

Do I have any other kind?

[classics_lover]

You can set no Anon comments on Ao3 (from the FAQ: Can I disable anonymous comments on my works

[cornerofmadness]

thanks, that's a help.

OMG I hope to hell you responded, thanks I'm Irish born and raised. I think I know my own language.

I honestly don't mind being asked to tag something. I DO mind being yelled at multiple times (and also people talking behind my back as they were on Twitter)

[classics_lover]

You're welcome.

Yeah, I pointed out that they had chosen to explain my own language to me incorrectly, and yet, somehow I was accused of being over the top in my reaction to that. I ended up doing the Ao3 equivalent of blocking them. I still love how they thought they were complimenting me - by missing the entire point and incorrectly telling me how to pronounce Samhain - I mean it's literally the month of November and I learned it as a child, I will never be able to forget it, but go off, my dude.

Same here, if I don't tag for something that's genuinely upsetting then I will absolutely correct myself but people are becoming very demanding and expecting authors to know what will be a trigger for every reader they might ever have, and I don't like it.

[cornerofmadness]

That's sad and funny and makes you want to throat punch. I would block them too because OMFG, pointing out you're a native speaker and that's over the top??

Same here. All they had to do was ask nicely not send multiple rants and technically I've now tagged for somethign that doesn't even exist but whatever. If you can't tell there's gore with the tags I have....I can't gatekeep your fiction

[stellar_raven]

I think anyone with common sense would figure that a story tagged as you tagged yours could possibly contain gore and to go into it expecting such.