I'm a teensy bit guilty of using warnings as jokes on fic that are written to be crack. :( I'm going to be more vigilant about it now, though; it's one of those things I didn't notice I was doing cavalierly before, something I was blinded to once but will work to not be again. I saw also, on thingswithwings' post on warnings, the elegant option of providing blackout/whiteout warnings so that the reader can choose to be 'spoiled', etc.

I do write some hard core stuff, and try to warn appropriately. I think the biggest change to my warning tactics is going to be that I'm going to warn for when the story has nothing that I consider triggering in it, for added reassurance on the part of the reader. It's something I never considered, but something I also consider very vital in the creation of a compassionate space.

I remember reading your profile when I first subscribed to you, and making a mental note re. your trigger. I tend not to mention mine because it doesn't always hit, and it makes me feel like I have to explain it, which I prefer not to do. I think part of what is so infuriating to me about this warnings debate is that one person did post, in graphic and horrifying detail, the creation of her trigger through repeated assault - and then one of her detractors insinuated repeatedly that she was lying about this assault and years-long abuse in order to claim 'victim privilege', and when not insinuating this, had the temerity to baldly state that the OP's insistence on warnings was akin to the assault she endured for her taking away of the author's free will. It was one of the most profoundly hurtful things I've ever seen one person say to another.

Sometimes fandom makes me flail; but at least it always has me thinking.

(Also, icon win. Did you know that Kirk and Spock originated the term slash? Or at least their fans did. We owe so much to them.)