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god not to immediately get involved in wank in the new year but i’ve been thinking about a dreamwidth post i read ages ago and now can’t find (i think by a kink-bingo mod, but again, i can’t find it) about how non-kinky people will often declare their boundaries to be “no hard kink,” with no explication of what the fuck “hard kink” means, or a brief explanation that leaves a significant amount to the imagination, with the implicit assumption that everyone has the same boundaries and ideas about kinkiness that they do, in a way that ends up making absolutely no fucking sense and kind of indicates that the person saying it has not, actually, thought very hard about kink and what their actual boundaries are.

Keep reading https://laurelnose.tumblr.com/post/639425336909643777/kink-cw

You know, I was also thinking very hard about this today, and I think I might have the same post? I bet you it was this thingswithwings post written in response to a kinkfreezone comm https://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/82725.html or at least some of the discussion http://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/83103.htm that stemmed from that particular wank, anyway. Might also have been this Eruthros piece https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/278486.html grouping some of the rather unhappy-making kink-critical comments from Yuletide letters. Mighta been SurveyFail but we all REMEMBER SurveyFail, right? Probably not SurveyFail.

(fucking SurveyFail, kids. I still teach folks about it in a “remember your research subjects are people and quite often they are researching you back kind of way when I’m talking about human research.)

Anyway.

It’s not like I’m not mostly lurking and betaing in this fandom right now, but I keep seeing people tossing out interesting, complex story concepts and then going “but look, I’m not going to risk investing a bunch of time and effort into this thing just to be nixed at the last minute.” And you know what, that’s fucking valid! It’s a shame that the organizers haven’t thought through what they do and don’t want to have, and that they weren’t clear about the kind of event they were comfortable running from the very beginning.

it definitely was not SurveyFail, but you know, I think it was at least partly the eruthros piece! it might also have been a little bit this one from implicated2 abt refusing kinky yuletide content https://implicated2.dreamwidth.org/25538.html. I’ve read enough kink discourse that these things all kind of bleed together after a while, lmfao.

I actually saw someone say only writers seem to be upset about the whole thing, and in counter to that, I was intending to sign up as an artist, but the thing about BBs is they are so heavily weighted in favor of artists—like, 20k of fic and 2-3 illustrations is not at ALL an equivalent time investment—that of course the writers are more upset, they stand to lose significantly more if they get nixed. plus, as the artist you can pick and choose which bits you want to illustrate to a significant extent, and often the art for darkfic can be relatively PG-13, so if you don’t have personal triggers or squicks it’s kind of not a big deal who you get paired with. the BB life is simply better for fanartists in general, imo.

but yeah, this was just… so poorly handled. everyone needs to do better with the way they approach content limits, and this kind of thing absolutely needs to be communicated upfront. (Your picture was not posted)