2009-06-26

briarwood: AI avatar of me as a witch (Default)
2009-06-26 03:23 pm
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On warnings and triggers

As fandom is in the midst of the annual warnings debate...

I strongly dislike warning on fic. I think much of the time warnings act as spoilers. But you know what? I still put warnings on my fic. Because that's just what you do when you write stuff as dark as I do. You take account of the fact that some of what you're putting out there can hurt people.

This latest iteration of the debate led to [livejournal.com profile] trigger_fence being created. I started to think about drafting a warnings-policy of my own that I can link to from my fic headers or wherever. But I found doing so a lot more challenging than I expected.

[livejournal.com profile] trigger_fence lists the following as things that are triggering and should be warned for:

ExpandCut for length; discussion of triggering issues under the cut )