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Why Warnings Suck
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| Title: | Why Warnings Suck |
| Creator: | Laura Jacquez Valentine |
| Date(s): | May 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Wayback; WebCite |
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Why Warnings Suck is a 2001 essay by Laura Jacquez Valentine.
"Originally posted to FCA-L in response to someone saying that they wanted warnings because they didn't want to be "blindsided", and then clarified and updated when the bi-annual warnings flamewar rolled around again. Edited together from multiple posts and for clarity." It is at listen to me! listen to me! essays.
Excerpts
I have *very* intense reactions to things that I read. If I pick up a book in the store, I can get all kinds of information out of the blurb on the back, but it's rarely going to tell me that someone dies or gets raped or has sex. I don't want fanfiction to be any different.
Yes, I've got intense reactions to fiction. Yes, I have most of the "big" triggers: death, rape, graphic violence. I also have triggers that are pretty small and personal, and I think most people would agree it's my look-out if I have Issues with "blowjob, heavy on the blood" and "POV character gets squicked, so You Will Too".* So why isn't it my look-out for the other things as well? To my mind, they all fall into the same category. Yes, more people might have the death-squick (or the death-kink), but the prevalence of a pattern of thought doesn't mean that we have to go about accomodating it in art.