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[sarren]

Sexual Assault, Triggering, and Warnings: An Essay A fan explains why warnings on fic are important, drawing on her own experience of abuse - "Warning: Very explicit discussion of sexual assault and the nature, anatomy, cause & effect of triggers. Is itself triggery."You know, I do get both sides of the 'debate' that's going on about the importance

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[imkalena]

I vote you for Fandom Empress.

[sarren]

\O/

Be assured, I will be a wise and benevolent dictator.

[callistra]

Can you make them put in wordcounts too? I have found that I will often judge whether I can read something or not based on how long it's going to take me to read.

[sarren]

Just for you!

[cricketk]

I am tired.

I don't understand why people wouldn't provide warnings for well-known triggers, particularly in the non-spoilery matching text and background option.

As in, I completely fail to understand why someone would not warn.

[sarren]

Because of their ARTISTIC INTEGRITY.

And also, as my absolute favourite commenter said about putting warnings on so people can choose not to read the fic - if you're not going to read my fic anyway, what have I got to lose (by NOT putting them on)

[brightbear]

The idea of using lj-cuts for the warnings is probably a good one. That one hadn't occurred to me.

[sarren]

I've been thinking about it for a while, given that I've always believed warnings are non-negotiable, but still get that some people regard them as spoilers.