#times someone has called tttaac dead dove: 2. which like. huh? why???? do you think dead dove just means Dark...?

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two conversations i want to have about "dead dove do not eat"

it's annoying how people treat it as a genre or descriptor in and of itself when it hypothetically should have no ties to "problematic" or "dark", it literally just means "what you see is what you get with these tags" - which is a concept that can encompass any kind of writing. in an ideal world dead dove is not a Type of fic, it is literally just a neutral descriptor, and i think it's very annoying how it got largely co-opted by proshippers who think it's shorthand for Dark And Twisted Porn™ and treat it as some kind of genre in and of itself

it just sounds incredibly lame. what's wrong with just saying "yeah heed the tags this is serious" instead of assuming everyone knows about a nonsense vaguely-artsy meme phrase. can we not just use our words

#babbles #all my love to this commenter (WHO WAS VERY SWEET) someone once recommended we tag tttaac as dead dove which #1) no sorry. i dont like the phrase. #2) i already said in the description and the tags of that fic... to heed the tags... and i warned people... thats what dead dove means #for all intents and purposes that does the same thing as actually tagging it dead dove would...? what difference would it make. no. #i said a million times in the tags and summary 'this is dark and heed the tags' if youre surprised by it at that point idk what to tell you #do you need a dead dove tag so you know its DARK™ when its already tagged as dark and gore and horror and tragedy??? #all my love to that commenter i am not genuinely mad they were a very lovely commenter i just have picked a very particular #niche fanfiction terminology hill to die on and iv been sitting on this rant for months XD #times someone has called tttaac dead dove: 2. which like. huh? why???? do you think dead dove just means Dark...? #SORRY. IM SORRY THIS IS UP THERE IN SOME OF THE PETTIEST IV BEEN ON THIS BLOG