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Sometimes I write stories that have twists, and sometimes I don't want to give those twists away, and often I'm extremely reluctant to post spoilery summaries of anything I write. That might make me pretentious by fandom standards, but whatever, I'm okay with that.

But I would never want any story that I write to cause someone to relive a traumatic experience. Some of the comments I've been reading claim that how can we be expected to warn for triggery stuff if there's no consensus as to what can be triggery, but I think there is consensus--or at least, I feel that it's been made very clear to me that I should specifically warn for anything involving dubious consent. Beyond that, if I write something that includes violence or dark themes or whatever, I warn for content that may be disturbing or whatever. If anyone were to comment to ask me to warn for something triggery that I hadn't warn for, then it doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult for me to edit the original entry and type a few words in order to keep someone else from reliving trauma.

I don't have anything to add to this debate beyond adding to the chorus, really, I just. Don't understand how this is even an issue. It's not about my reluctance to spoil my story where Merlin cheats on Arthur with Gaius, it's about us as a community doing what we can not to contribute to rape culture.