mothers and fuckers of the jury. “Dead dove: do not eat” is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means “the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled”. It does not mean “trigger warning uhhh something”. In fact, it means the exact opposite of “trigger warning uhhh something”, because tou use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as “extreme violence”, “gore” and you tag it with “dead dove: do not eat”. You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with “emotional abuse”, “gaslighting” and “dead dove: do not eat”. You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and “dead dove: do not eat”. It’s so people know you’re really mean the content warnings.
It’s NOT a catch-all term for “uhhh this may be fucked idk”. TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.
It also does not mean “the most fucked-up filth I can possibly imagine.” Nowadays I see people say “I’m writing a dead dove fic, teehee!” as a way of saying that they’re writing something that is filled with the most horrific stuff they can imagine. Which is not what dead dove actually means! Dead dove simply means that your fic contains exactly what the tags say it contains.
when people tag dead dove but not the actual content in question:
when people tag dead
dove but not the actual
content in question:
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
