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specialagentartemis · 4 months

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tbh what I ACTUALLY think about content warnings is that the author should not be the one writing them. I have encountered multiple stories where the events the author warned for were kind of bland and predictable, but there was stuff baked into the narrative that was really uncomfortable or disturbing and the author seems to have not considered that a problem at all. Becky Chambers’s fish scene STILL haunts me.

#Chambers is not warning for animal cruelty. Travelling Light is not warning for a flippant treatment of artifact theft and smuggling #This Planet Needs a Name is not warning for the deeply insidious colonialist attitudes #That one short story in the aro collection did not warn for the uncritical repetition of anti-Native American tropes applied to evil Orcs #We need someone besides the author to read/listen to this shit and go uhhhh #Like TO BE FAIR Chambers fid not write content warnings #But she said that she wrote a book where nothing in it could harm you #And ma’am You Failed At That

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