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safetypin-louis · 1 year

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a hill i will DIE on is that all books should have content warnings right before the dedication. this is not to say that books should be gate-kept from younger audiences or anything like that, it’s mostly because i’ve read some really uncomfortable things in books that i would liked to have been aware of before going into the books, so i could make an educated decision about whether reading the book was the right thing for me.

#for example i read a great YA series but there was a casual SA drop with no warning and the r word for it was used several times and then #there was an almost sa scene but was stopped by a character #knowing those were in the series wouldn’t have stopped me from reading the series altogether but i could’ve prepared myself for it mentally #and there are other ppl where that stuff is triggering and rightfully so #just a single page that says content warnings: kissing smoking drinking light drug use major character death minor character death etc etc #same like for ao3 #and it’s not to prevent younger readers from accessing books or anything like that #it’s to better prepare readers for the content they’re engaging with #and to a MUCH MUCH MUCH LESSER EXTENT prepare teachers and parents for content students and children might read #just like movies say viewer descretion is advised and shit #anyways !#trigger warning: SA mentioned in tags

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