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The thing where.

1. People on purpose comb through specific Warnings tags on ao3 so they can harass authors who have used them bc all content with that warning is Evil and ppl must be Punished

2. The authors subsequently overwhelmingly STOP USING SPECIFIC WARNING TAGS AND JUST USE “AUTHOR CHOSE NOT TO WARN”

3. I NOW DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE CONTENTS OF THEIR FAN FICTION WILL BE . BECAUSE THE SPECIFIC WARNING TAGS ARE NOT BEING USED. BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THAT WARNING TAGS ARE FOR FINDING HARASSMENT TARGETS RATHER THAN FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT SPECIFIC CONTENT IS BEING WARNED FOR SO I CAN DECIDE WHETHER I NEED TO AVOID IT

I hate this. I hate this I hate this I hate this THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU CLAIM TO WANT you are causing ppl browsing to lose the ability to safely navigate this content . This is valuing performative attacks against strangers over the ability of people in general but more specifically … people who have a reason to be paying attention to warnings so they know what to avoid e.g. TRAUMATIZED PEOPLE, to safely navigate these archives. Fuck. You.

I’ve thought about this too – authors being able to click a box to render any given tag on their work unsearchable so I can see content warnings when browsing but ppl can’t go into tags on purpose for harassment …. that said there’s nothing stopping ppl from combing certain fandoms or ships to see which works have unsearchable warnings on to find stuff to send harassment about but at least they’d have to work a little harder :T lol god

maybe people should just stop making things that are Bad and maybe you shouldnt be pandering to people making questionable if not outright harmful and insidious shit op

but people are allowed to write about bad things if they want. that’s what one of the purposes of writing is.

I write about my own experiences and they aren’t all dandy; so what? I should be allowed to do so, and I should be allowed to share it and put a proper warning on it.

if you just ban everything bad, no one will be able to relate to anything fictional. hell, if that’s what we “should” do, then we might as well ban authors from writing about dead parents, because some people have traumas related to the loss of their parent(s), and we shouldn’t write about suicide or illnesses or anything negative whatsoever.

writing is an expression. don’t limit it.

im so sorry i dont want people writing incest and pedophillia on an internet FanFiction site you idiot

Okay, a while back, the tags for a story I wrote were screenshotted and shared around tumblr, and people commented about how terrible it was and I was, and how this story was proof that fanfiction was a mistake. This hurt, and it was scary, and it made me want to delete all of my fics and stop writing.

The fic is a long, plotty ensemble Harry Potter crossover fic, and over the course of the story, an eleven year old muggleborn character uses her new wand to confront her rapist father, and then later, the main villain develops sexual feelings for her brother, culminating in her nonconsentually kissing him. I warned extensively for these things because they can potentially trigger someone’s trauma, and even if they don’t, these are upsetting topics and no one should stumble on that content without warning. And for this care, I was pilloried.

I frequently write about upsetting topics. I frequently write characters being abused. I write in canons where characters are canonical abuse victims and canonical abusers, and I like to explore what this means. I have written a story about a grown man raping a fifteen year old girl, told through her point of view, and I am writing a follow up story about her dealing with the aftermath. I have written characters imprisoned, I have written them enslaved, gaslit, tortured, and brainwashed. And none of this means I condone this behavior.

Furthermore none of this means I normalize this behavior. I write about this behavior as terrible and harmful, as something the victims have to deal with for the rest of their lives. I was abused, and writing about emotionally similar situations is not about coping for me. It’s about expressing the horror of what happened to me in a way that I can make somebody understand viscerally how damaging and horrible what I went through was. Fiction is affecting and it does change the way we think and the way we see the world. When we try to ban things like pedophilia and incest from being written about, the message to victims is not “These things are too terrible to be written about”, it’s “These things don’t happen. You are alone.”

You might think that fanfiction is the wrong place for these stories, that they belong in more serious literature. But professional serious literature doesn’t deal with them with any more sensitivity or intelligence than fanfiction does, and fanfiction writers, being more likely to be somehow disenfranchised or shut out of professional fiction, are more likely to be drawing on their own experiences when writing about abuse. I have seen some disgusting portrayals of rape and abuse in all its forms as loving or romantic, both in fanfic and in mainstream literature. But in my experience, the people who are warning for these things are usually not the same people romanticizing these things and presenting them as okay. The people doing that generally don’t admit that these are things you should warn for.

You say you don’t want people writing about incest and pedophilia on an internet fanfiction site. I do. I want to critique society’s narratives about these topics, and I want people to be able to avoid these topics, but I also understand the value of seeing these painful real world things reflected in fiction. Warnings are a way to enable people to avoid these topics while still allowing this process. Warnings are a way to have it both ways. I know this isn’t what you want. I’m glad it’s not up to you.