#i would rather overtag than undertag! ^^

[selfship-stims]

F/O x S/I Stimboard

This one was very hard to do, because I wanted to avoid having too many weapons stims and this... is Samira we're talking about. I did my best with what I have. That being said, this is for a romantic selfship between Samira from League of Legends and an OC.

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[anonfandombandit]

it’s been brought to my attention that I missed some tags when updating MSIS last night and I am SO sorry, I honestly thought I’d already added them 😬 I’ll be more vigilant next time. and if I have missed tags then PLEASE tell me, I would much rather overtag than undertag

[frighteneddraz]

Anthology of Arik 3

Triggers: Child Abuse, Gore

Technically, there isn't any hard gore, but there is a compound fracture and blood so... I figured I'd overtag rather than undertag

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Arik sat in the dark of the cellar crying. Why did his father hate him so? Arik’s young mind couldn’t understand. Why was he treated worse than the cat his father kept to deal with mice in the house? Why was he locked down here while the other boys played freely? Well... he did understand, but still, it was an accident. Right?

Arik sobbed, and called up towards the door: “Please, pa, I’ll be good. I didn’t mean it, I swear, I’ll be good… Please let me out”

The day had started well enough, Arik’s momma and papa had announced that Arik would soon be an older brother, something that had excited Arik immensely. The other kids all complained about their siblings, but Arik was sure they were full of it. Arik had finished his chores early, and his papa had even said he did “alright”. He had been allowed to go play, a rare treat for the boy. That had been when what was shaping up to be the best day of Arik’s young life turned sour. The boys had been playing a “Knights Tournament" and Arik was paired up against an older kid, Thor, for the first round.

Thor was a bully, Arik had disliked him as long as he could remember, he was the oldest and by extension, largest boy in the village at the age of 14, and used his size to take toys from other kids. Nobody liked playing with him, so Arik was always stuck with him. “You’re the strongest other than him” the other boys would say, and Arik would always agree to partner with him for any games that needed a partner. He could handle Thor.

So the two boys squared up, Arik, age 9, against Thor, age 14. The rules of the game were simple, relatively anyways. If the wooden sword hit a limb, that limb was cut off and the person could no longer use it, the first hit to the chest wouldn’t count, but the second would be a mortal wound and the person would lose. Hits to the head and neck were against the rules, no knight would be so dishonorable was the logic of the kids. Obviously, accidents happen, so one kid was set to just watch and make a ruling should a head or neck hit occur.

Arik’s fight against Thor begin with the older and larger boy immediately hitting Arik in the head with his wooden sword hard enough that the world spun for a moment. Normally, that would disqualify a kid, but not Thor, Thor threatened the kid acting as referee into ruling it an accident. The Tournament resumed and Arik quickly “cut off” Thor’s non dominant arm and one of his legs, before Thor got mad and went to swing at Arik’s head again. Arik was ready this time, parrying the hit like a real knight, Arik countered by hitting Thor twice in the chest in quick succession, winning the duel. 

Or… well, that should have been what happened. But Thor got mad and attacked Arik, defending himself against the older boy’s assault as best he could, Arik took a hit to the arm. There was a crunch and Arik’s arm exploded with pain, causing Arik to cry out. Arik grew desperate. He needed Thor to stop, or Thor would kill him. Arik hit Thor back as hard as he could. He wasn’t aiming, his eyes weren’t even open. He was just trying to get Thor to stop. There was a crack as the wooden play sword broke, and Arik opened his eyes as Thor stopped hitting him. A glance made Arik’s blood run cold.  He had hit Thor’s head, and hard enough it made him stop attacking.

He had stopped doing anything really. Just… slumping into the snow, as it turned first pink, then a deep red. The other boys all looked at Arik strangely, as Arik looked down at his broken arm, bone protruding through the skin, it hurt. It hurt horribly, but it had already stopped bleeding. It wasn’t supposed to stop bleeding! Why had it stopped bleeding?! What am I? Arik asked himself in horror. Arik looked up at the others as though they held the answers he sought and watched as they backed away from him, fear clear in the eyes of each and every one of them.

“Please, guys, it was an accident. I… I didn’t mean to, honest. Please don’t hate me, I… he… Please…” Arik begged, tears pricking his eyes. That was when Arik heard his papa shouting…

Arik snapped back to the present, he had just been trying to defend himself. Thor shouldn’t have attacked him like that… Why had he been so vicious? Arik looked at his arm again, his mom had popped the bone back into place before he’d been sent down here. Arik began sobbing again. He was alone. The look on the faces of the other boys haunted him, but as Arik fell asleep in the cold and dark and solitude it was Thor that came to him in his dream. In his nightmare. The first of untold many to come.

[felassan]

Random, but haven't we also known about Tevinter Templars not having powers? I saw you listed it as a spoiler, and I thought it was weird because I haven't read TN but I already knew that fact. And now I can't place where I heard it from.

Yes! We knew already that the majority of the Vint templars do not have anti-magic powers, from an old blog post [iirc?] of DG’s and I think it was either some dialogue w/ Cullen or Cullen war table flavor text. I added spoiler tags just to be extra safe, you can never be too cautious when it comes to spoilers and tagging! for the same reason I also applied spoiler tags to the coffee & Siccari posts (TN spoilers at link) - these things were both definitely pre-existing knowledge but some people were only coming across it for the first time in TN. in addition, for example, in the post about Tevinter templars, I also mentioned the special anti-mage weapons that they have, which I am positive that we are only learning of for the first time in TN, hence that is for sure a spoiler. :)

[msg refs this post]  TN spoilers at link

[carletes]

tumblr life would be so much easier if people tagged their posts properly omg,, I've always thought it was like common decency on tumblr but f1blr doesn't seem to think so??

I’m really really grateful to follow people who are very good at tagging and of course I’m not perfect though I try to err on the side of overtagging rather than undertagging but MAN going out in the wild is. A lot.

That said I try not to tag my hate with the name of the person I’m hating on 💀 the anti tags are what that’s for lmao

As always if anyone has any tag requests pls pls tell me!!!

[hongism]

Also I once found a writer that put *everyone in the story consented to what's going on, I'm just not the best at writing it* which was a weird grey zone

hmm okay yeah this is something i’m very Opinionated about but,,,, that to me sounds more like an excuse than anything else.

consent is something that any and every author should highlight and be clear about. consent is more important than the smut itself, and it should be treated as such. if an author is using an excuse like that, it’s very ??? awful? in my opinion. there are obviously bad ways of depicting consent, but imo it’s not hard to do it right. consent can be as simple as “is this okay? do you want me to stop?” “yes this is okay, i’d like to continue” “are you sure?” “yes”. that grrr i don’t know that really really bothers me that an author is using the excuse of not being good at writing it. it is not hard to write consent, so yeah that might be a weird grey zone but yeah again consent should be the first and foremost thing in writing smut, regardless of what kind of smut it is. it’s a bit careless for an author to push it to the side in that way and i don’t think i could ever in good conscious support that or someone who does that. 

while yeah the author is saying ‘this is consensual’, that does seem to imply that it’s a situation of dubcon so i would hope that the author recognized that and tagged it properly and gave proper warnings for that.

i think a good rule of thumb to follow is this: if you can’t understand it when reading it back to yourself, then your readers won’t understand either. if you at any point in the writing process stop and think ‘hm consent isn’t clear’, your readers won’t think it’s clear either. i am known to be sloppy in terms of editing, but it is a writer’s responsibility to check their work before posting so that they can tag it properly. and if they end up not tagging it properly and someone approaches them asking them to correct it, it is safer to listen to that person and tag it as they were asked to. i always always go for overtagging warnings rather than undertagging bc it is better to cover every possible base to avoid confusion and keep from unintentionally harming others.

too often do i see authors who are more concerned with listing off a whole bible of smut tags just because they think it’s edgy and cute and hot to have 575843234 smut tags and fill up the entire dash with just smut warnings, but when it comes to real triggering warnings, they gloss over those because it’s a) not as aesthetic to have on their fic and b) they don’t want people to be scared off by their tags. those kinds of people are nasty, disgusting, and need to reevaluate a lot of things because it’s clear that they’re in it for attention and faux fame that won’t get them anywhere in life rather than actually spreading good and healthy content. i have no respect whatsoever for people like that, but then again egotistical assholes who can only focus on themselves and their own personal gain rather than educating and helping others are my absolute pet peeve and i will never ever have an ounce of respect for people like that. 

[virtualfindingsdocumented]

My criteria to tag stuff for s3 will be “stuff I wouldn’t like to see if I was in X mood”

Like, when I am avoiding spoilers, I don’t want to see even a quote, even a picture, sometimes not even trailers

When I dislike discourse about a certain character I sometimes go blocking any posts that mention the character 

I would rather overtag than undertag. 

I also want to organize things better in my blog but who knows if it will work

Anyway, just saying so no one will be weirded out by anything that may happen. I will try to make a tag list before it is out. There are some points that I am already sure will need tags (like R, the taxi driver, Beatrice, the opera scene... I have no doubt there will be mixed reactions about these no matter what)