| The conflict |
 The conflict
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Oct. 12th, 2023 @ 07:18 am 
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Reading someone talking about the validity of people asking for tags about content, while also considering the dumb shit people have asked me to tag for.
The dumbest, of course, being the person who complained about me including content that not only had I tagged for, but there was also a specific and extended author's note warning at the start.
They decided I probably didn't mean it, but also skimmed ahead to check and had a wildly wrong idea of what was going on at all? And complained about it?
Writing a fic that gets popular and becoming a moderately popular author has many consequences, and among them is developing a deep contempt for people who leave complaining comments. Because I wrote a story that got popular, and am now a moderately popular author in that fandom, and I get some of the dumbest complaints.
I also got to develop a deep contempt for antis, even though I write the popular pairing. Not least because I have written that pairing in AUs that hit every aspect the antis claim as justification for being hostile to other pairings, and I've never had those complaints at all.
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I'm all for tagging things where there are large number of people likely to be negatively affected, particularly when it has a high chance of being closely linked with one or more mental health issues.
But--and I say this as someone whose specific trigger is a) rare as a trigger and b) incredibly common everywhere--I don't hold with general warnings for rare things. I will attempt to remember rare triggers for a vanishingly small number of people I value. Beyond that, I'm all 'curate your own damn online experience'. If I'm going to say things that bother people, I hope that they unfriend me (and I've had that happen. I was rude about the British royal family. I am likely to repeat that behaviour. )
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