I'm one of those really mean people who absolutely refuse to warn for triggers in my personal journal and posting of stories on said personal journal because I feel most people on the internet conflate an actual trigger for a potential psychotic break for "thing that makes me uncomfortable" and it just makes me roll my eyes. NSFW warnings are as far as I'll go since I view my journal at work lol. I had a friend who had someone go off on her about incest posted to her personal journal without warnings, and considering my friend is heavily into the Thor/Loki fandom and posts about it all the time...you would think the person would have been able to gather that incest would be posted. At some point, the reader/viewer needs to take responsibility as well for what they consume. I don't think I've ever seen a book or movie with specific trigger warnings beyond the usual "strong sexual content" or "explicit drug use" or "violence"
But when I am posting in places that require them, I would rather be able to list content and not have to have it be an actual warning. No judgment call, just a list of what you will find in this fic. You decide if you want to read it or not. I like AO3 a lot in that regard.
One of my biggest kinks, or ok, two of my biggest kinks are prob the two that get the most flack from people for even existing - that would be shota and incest, so I am used to be people judging me for it. I think those people are all asshats and move on.
I want to believe the "I think this is gross but..." comments are people trying to convey, poorly, that they enjoyed something they normally wouldn't, but I don't know if I can actually be that rosy about it. I wrote a fic with a fetish concerning something that actively grosses me out in real life and it was an interesting experience to try and portray it as something I could find hot upon reading it.
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Date: 2012-01-19 02:12 pm (UTC)But when I am posting in places that require them, I would rather be able to list content and not have to have it be an actual warning. No judgment call, just a list of what you will find in this fic. You decide if you want to read it or not. I like AO3 a lot in that regard.
One of my biggest kinks, or ok, two of my biggest kinks are prob the two that get the most flack from people for even existing - that would be shota and incest, so I am used to be people judging me for it. I think those people are all asshats and move on.
I want to believe the "I think this is gross but..." comments are people trying to convey, poorly, that they enjoyed something they normally wouldn't, but I don't know if I can actually be that rosy about it. I wrote a fic with a fetish concerning something that actively grosses me out in real life and it was an interesting experience to try and portray it as something I could find hot upon reading it.