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What does the dead dove tag mean?

Wonderful question!

“Dead Dove” comes from this scene in Arrested Development wherein the character Michel Bluth opens a brown paper bag that reads: DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. He looks inside and sees what is in fact, a dead dove. The then says: “Well, I don’t know what I expected.”

In fandom, the tag has come to mean: “pay extra attention to the tags!” And/or “this fic is what it says on the tin!”.

So if, for example, a fic includes the tags: Body Horror, Gore, and Violence along with the Dead Dove: Do Not Eat tag, the author is saying “Hey I’m not joking about these tags! Read at your own discretion!”

The tag acts as an honest intensifier to whatever tags are already in the work, as the author using it wants to give a double warning for their content, that it may be triggering and that the reader should proceed with caution.

One fic tagged with Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, also includes the tags: Seriously, this fic deals with some serious and disturbing content matter, mind the tags

Thanks for asking and happy reading!

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au where jet doesn’t find out that zuko and iroh are fire nation and when he runs into the gaang he goes ‘oh by the way this is my new friend lee. we met on the ferry ride over here!’ and the gaang and zuko just like awkwardly stare at each other for a really long time

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this might be my fave tweet of all time

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He got mistaken for a waiter and was delighted by it. 

I can’t

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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passing that single brain cell back and forth between them

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Why are there sleeping positions and levels of comfort that are only discoverable in the morning hours when you're supposed to get up?

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Books: Main characters must follow the plot.

Fanfiction: Okay but what if they went to IKEA and fought over furniture instead?

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do not go gentle into that good night

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not gonna lie I’ve been looking at men’s slutty waists and big titties I’m not sorry

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Polite Reminder, even using a/i generated images for yourself, or for fun, even if they never see the light of day and are just to make you laugh with a dumb meme, uses the stolen datasets of hundreds of thosands of real peoples work to make it.

It encourages the use of this technique, and tells the companys that oversaw the theft of billions of images that it's ok (and profitable) to do because people still want it.

Until these particular datasets are purged and built from scratch using art that people actually give permission to use, it isn't ethical and should be avoided altogether. There is zero chance of this happening without legislation, and that will take an exceptionally long time because most people dont see it as a problem.

I know so many artists that have lost their jobs because of the trend, it is having a real, physical and lasting effect on the art community and industry and it is intensely depressing as an artist myself. I ofdten wonder why i even bother trying anymore. But i'll keep going, because art is a human expression, not typing words into a machine and getting something churned out.

Please do not use a/i imagery.

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In 2025 you have to fag it up as much as possible. Goth it up also. Godspeed. Gothspeed, even.

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cabin7originals

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I love this new era of pettiness we’re entering, bully trump relentlessly until he has a heart attack from anger 2025