I am certainly not against other people using the word warning, but feel it's gotten to the point where either the warning field really is just an enticement to readers and not taken seriously as listing significant potential triggers or it is overenthusiastic in it's warnings.
I completely understand that not everyone wants to read all of the kinks, but I guess that personally I take issue with lumping a consensual, light-hearted watersports fic in with warnings like non-con and graphic violence. It's kind of like these things are not the same at all. I agree that the reader might want to know that it is watersports before reading but I don't want to put it in a warning. I also don't want to end up warning for every paper cut. I want my warnings to be meaningful for the people that need them but not excessive.
There has to be a line somewhere and so I think I am going to take the AO3 approach. I'll warn for the major triggering things if I ever end up writing them, but something like "fisting" can go in the content notes. And things like "fluff" and certainly "slash" or "het" have no place in any warnings, imo.
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Date: 2012-01-20 03:38 am (UTC)I completely understand that not everyone wants to read all of the kinks, but I guess that personally I take issue with lumping a consensual, light-hearted watersports fic in with warnings like non-con and graphic violence. It's kind of like these things are not the same at all. I agree that the reader might want to know that it is watersports before reading but I don't want to put it in a warning. I also don't want to end up warning for every paper cut. I want my warnings to be meaningful for the people that need them but not excessive.
There has to be a line somewhere and so I think I am going to take the AO3 approach. I'll warn for the major triggering things if I ever end up writing them, but something like "fisting" can go in the content notes. And things like "fluff" and certainly "slash" or "het" have no place in any warnings, imo.