The Wordsmith&#39;s Forge

I like the way you've articulated your own warning label, very much!

Edited (typo) Date: 2014-07-28 05:53 pm (UTC)

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Thank you. I'm glad it works for you.

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I can believe that. If I had tried to read some of your writing when I was younger and hadn't been exposed to as much, I think it probably would've upset me.

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That's useful to know.

Also when I was younger, I didn't know how much damage this stuff could do. I have learned to put warnings on things and to be cautious about handing certain stuff to certain people.

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Most of my problem stems from the fact that my family just pretends anything they don't like doesn't exist. I was in the middle of high school before I accepted that I was queer, and that came /after/ I was suicidal and in denial. Just... It would've been complicated to think about all of it. Sometimes it's still hard to read some of what you write even though I absolutely love it because it puts me in a situation where I have to start seeing that some of how I grew up wasn't really okay.

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>> Most of my problem stems from the fact that my family just pretends anything they don't like doesn't exist. <<

My sympathies. I know people like that. It is profoundly disturbing to realize that someone is not actually interacting with you, but has instead constructed a sort of doll inside their head with all the features they wish you had, and they are entertaining themselves with it rather than you, while you are right there.

>> I was in the middle of high school before I accepted that I was queer, and that came /after/ I was suicidal and in denial. Just... It would've been complicated to think about all of it. <<

Wow, that sucks.

>> Sometimes it's still hard to read some of what you write even though I absolutely love it because it puts me in a situation where I have to start seeing that some of how I grew up wasn't really okay. <<

It really wasn't okay. I hope the tags, warnings, descriptions, etc. suffice to help you tell what you want to read or skip.

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I... read all of Love Is For Children because it's helping me mentally patch myself up properly. I'm... well, hiding from some of your other fics though. Sorry.

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>> I... read all of Love Is For Children because it's helping me mentally patch myself up properly. <<

I'm glad I could help. If you like feelgood things, Hart's Farm is mostly fluff too.

>> I'm... well, hiding from some of your other fics though. Sorry. <<

That's okay. I write lots of different things, and I try to make it easy for people to tell which they'd enjoy reading. I have some fans who read everything I write, but many people have a favorite series or several. Some series are really popular, some in the middle, other have only a few fans.

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Thank you for understanding.

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redsixwing

..yyyyep. I can see that. Younger Me would have been badly shaken by some of your writing.

It is humorous, though. *s*

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I appreciate the feedback. You're the second person who's said that to me.

Maybe it should have labels like yoga equipment and large sex toys do: "Stretch carefully before using." :D

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redsixwing

Mere LOL cannot encompass how hard I am laughing at this comparison. :D

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zeeth_kyrah

Warning: Dimensional fold active; impossible things at work.

alternatively,

Warning: Do not look directly at tesseract without observers' training.

Edited Date: 2014-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)

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I love both of those.

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thnidu

Of course, nobody considers themself narrow-minded...

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Actually, I do consider myself more narrow-minded than I would like to be. The difference? I /know/ that my 'problem spots' exist, I have a good idea where they've come from, and I flat out refuse to let them shape ME any longer. So it's not a perfect solution; I have to approach triggery stuff carefully, but its' better than playing ostrich with this particular problem!

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*chuckle* Did you see wherever it was that I said maybe I needed an additional warning, "Stretch carefully before using" ...?

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thnidu

Oh, I just saw the other reading of this. You meant it as in "stretch before exercising", didn't you? I read it as syntactically like "shake well before using", with a transitive verb: in other words, something like "Stretch my words / meaning"!

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Stretch before exercising, yes. As in the label put on yoga tools or large sex toys.

Stretch what I'm saying and ... SNAP! It will spring back and hit you in the face.

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I actually think you've helped me figure out my own auctorial warning: Contents Under Pressure, or maybe just a one-word warning: Plasmoid?

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I like "Contents Under Pressure."

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You'd know; you've edited my work1

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thnidu

If you really want it to warn the narrow-minded, the first of those is much closer to being generally understandable.

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