I actually largely agree with Ahddie, inasmuch as it seemed like it was pretty easy to opt out of, and while there should have been an initial warning on the post, there wasn't, and that's somewhat regrettable, though it's good that it did go up.
I'll go ahead and say for full disclosure that I smoke pretty regularly, and that I don't have a problem with it, because I -- personally -- have actually found the effects of marijuana to be less than the effects of two or three alcoholic drinks on my tiny little body. That being said, I've always known when I was taking the drug.
But I also think that because the whole "Oh hee! People don't know they're eating pot brownies!" thing is such a trope in media these days (my boy Puck bakes some pot brownies for a bake sale and sells 'em like crazy on Glee, for instance), no one probably thought twice of it. There are the obvious triggers, and there are the ones that seem to affect one or two people in the game
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The problem is if I'm watching television and something like that starts-I can turn it off. If a book goes a place I'm not comfortable with, I can put it down and not read it again. I have done both. I do not watch most television because I'm uncomfortable with what they portray as the norm.
Fandom High isn't something that's a one-time thing for an event, though. If something happens then the consequences are dealt with, people talk about it, characters react. It can go on for weeks-which makes avoiding something that upsets me greatly a difficult proposition.
I'm absolutely not saying people can't or shouldn't play out what they want in FH. Toootally not my point at all and I really hope no one is taking it as that way. (For one, with my characters that would make me rather a hypocrite in and of myself.)
All I want is adequate warning on posts. And even if the drugs don't hit peoples' radars as triggery then the lack of consent should be hitting them. Yes, even if evening television thinks it's hilarious
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I'm not excusing the lack of consent so much as giving it context. Television tells us tons of stuff is okay when it is clearly not, and FH sort of acts within the tropes and mythos (*steals Ahddie's awesome word) of television and books. So that's why I think it didn't occur to them to warn, and that it wasn't malicious or any kind of "I think this is funny, so screw everyone who doesn't
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I'll go ahead and say for full disclosure that I smoke pretty regularly, and that I don't have a problem with it, because I -- personally -- have actually found the effects of marijuana to be less than the effects of two or three alcoholic drinks on my tiny little body. That being said, I've always known when I was taking the drug.
But I also think that because the whole "Oh hee! People don't know they're eating pot brownies!" thing is such a trope in media these days (my boy Puck bakes some pot brownies for a bake sale and sells 'em like crazy on Glee, for instance), no one probably thought twice of it. There are the obvious triggers, and there are the ones that seem to affect one or two people in the game ( ... )
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Fandom High isn't something that's a one-time thing for an event, though. If something happens then the consequences are dealt with, people talk about it, characters react. It can go on for weeks-which makes avoiding something that upsets me greatly a difficult proposition.
I'm absolutely not saying people can't or shouldn't play out what they want in FH. Toootally not my point at all and I really hope no one is taking it as that way. (For one, with my characters that would make me rather a hypocrite in and of myself.)
All I want is adequate warning on posts. And even if the drugs don't hit peoples' radars as triggery then the lack of consent should be hitting them. Yes, even if evening television thinks it's hilarious ( ... )
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