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[yvannairie]

One of the wildest, stupidest things I see floating around in the modern moral panic over novels is this idea that people are allowed to write about "bad and triggering" topics if they do it well, and that a well-written story about heavy topics would be by default less likely to trigger someone.

When oh boy there's a substantial amount of things I thought I was just squicked or put off by that have turned out to be outright triggers once I read them in a story that was well-written. There's this one writer in my fandom who is a fucking genius and traffics in many of the characters I like, and I've never seen someone who was so good at executing on things in a way that consistently makes me contemplate my mortality, entirely because they're a godtier talent at getting horny about the topic. They're the one writer where I religiously read the content warnings and I still regularly discover new unpleasant things about myself!

(Also to fend off any nbh's abt this: hi Nev! :D you can imagine this is the kind of thing that is hard to put in a comment without sounding backhanded. Rest assured it's a "'worth it' said the vampire about garlic bread" kind of deal, and I will gratefully continue existing in your audience)