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nephirDear Fandom,
I love and adore you. You have given me years of pleasure, joy and laughter but can we please get the fuck over ourselves?
Fandom is not therapy, but it can be used to help existing therapy.
If you have triggers and you stumble across a 'kink' or 'hurt comfort' story, take as a give that there is probably something in there that may trigger you and either a: avoid the story or b: read it and then talk to your therapist about it.
Don't blast the author because it brought back some traumatic event in your past.
Its not their job to only write safe stories. It is the job of an author to challenge the mind and to tackle uncomfortable subjects.
Without authors who do such things we would never have had To Kill a Mockingird to read, or Brokeback Mountain. Robert A Heinlein would never have been published because he wrote about incest, cannibalism and religion.
Please -- enough with the race fail, feminist fail, trigger fail, etc. Please?
I love and adore you. You have given me years of pleasure, joy and laughter but can we please get the fuck over ourselves?
Fandom is not therapy, but it can be used to help existing therapy.
If you have triggers and you stumble across a 'kink' or 'hurt comfort' story, take as a give that there is probably something in there that may trigger you and either a: avoid the story or b: read it and then talk to your therapist about it.
Don't blast the author because it brought back some traumatic event in your past.
Its not their job to only write safe stories. It is the job of an author to challenge the mind and to tackle uncomfortable subjects.
Without authors who do such things we would never have had To Kill a Mockingird to read, or Brokeback Mountain. Robert A Heinlein would never have been published because he wrote about incest, cannibalism and religion.
Please -- enough with the race fail, feminist fail, trigger fail, etc. Please?
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Date: 13 Sep 2010 07:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Sep 2010 13:15 (UTC)