#(to clarify-- yes if you're going to exhaustively tag things like 'needles' and 'hospital setting' are common squicks worth a mention)

[mixelation]

Oh yeah not saying that people shoulf stop writing those fics, I was mostly venting and I guess it comes off as very adamant but yeah it's mostly just that I'm tired of closing every third fic I open just because the way those subjects ate often handled squicks me - which is a me problem.

i don't think it's 100% a "you problem" when there's not really a good way to make informed decisions as a reader about it without attempting to read the fic? i mean, it's a "you problem" in that everyone has their own set of preferences for what content they want, and those preferences shouldn't control what individual fic writers want to make, but in a system like ao3 where you're meant to be able to filter out content you don't want and search for content you DO want.....

idk, i don't think it's possible to tag fic for every conceivable squick and trigger, but i do wish this very specific thing had its own tag, especially since it's something that entire fics are based around. i didn't interpret your ask as trying to get rid of those fics; i just wanted to make it clear to other people reading this blog that i don't think it shouldn't exist..... i just want a way to avoid it

#i do get annoyed when a fic has a wall of content warnings and you're like 'yeah im okay with all that' #and then you go to read the fic and the fic is like 'what if chronically ill people don't know how to manage their lives?' #bc it comes of as the writer trying to say that THIS is how the world should work and it's not worth a content warning #especially if all the content warnings are for medical procedures and behaviors associated with whatever illness/disorder/etc #and then there's no content warning for 'the disabled character has their medication taken away so their friend can administer it for them' #it kind of reads as 'disability itself needs content warnings but mistreating disabled people doesn't' #(to clarify-- yes if you're going to exhaustively tag things like 'needles' and 'hospital setting' are common squicks worth a mention) #idk im not really an exhaustive tagger but i do try to give people a heads up if i think something might be a nasty surprise