01:24 pm: Chocolate, art, cats, and warnings
Danish chocolate isn't particularly good. At least, not the box full of berry-flavoured marzipan chocolates Transamurai brought back from Oslo. I like marzipan, but these were dull.
I'm going to an art exhibition tonight in Glasgow, meeting up with
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solo. I think it's going to be fun, but I'm glad I'm going with
solo.
Because I wasn't going to be back till late, I turned Bob back from eating grass in the garden this morning. She was not a happy kitty.
On warnings for fanfic: The distinction is not between people who have suffered a trauma and people who have not: it it is between people who like being warned of anything untoward in their reading before they take a look at it, and people who do not. The categories are not identical, and indeed I am not sure they even overlap in any significant way.
Current Mood: 
busy
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chocolate,
glasgow,
imaginary friend meetup,
meta
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| Date: | dayordJune 2009 08:13 pm (UTC) |
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I hope the art exhibition was fun!
I hope Bob is not being resentful at you.
I cannot clear my head and have a coherent opinion on warnings.
This is me trying to think at two am:
I am in favour of kindness and consideration, but I hate spoilers myself. I like community standards that favour kindness and consideration:
For instance, I like lj-cuts for spoilers, and I like Not Safe For Work warning on links (and loud automatic sound, and .pdf file, and video automatically playing warnings, too. ) But sometimes I just click links anyway, after just hovering over them to see. Or even shortened links on twitter. I don't like the ... entitlement some people seem to develop as a consequence, the 'well OBVIOUSLY what is common in my corner of fandom , or friendlist, or at *my* local, is the standard for EVERYONE, and I WILL act as though it is'.
The one useful thing point of view I found, was some people saying that one person's warning is another person's recommendation - some people are specifically looking for a kink, or fantasy that gets a warning.
(There was an analogy to peanut-butter cookies, with some people allergic and some people thinking 'ooh, delicious!'.
The analogy breaks, for me, when I consider that I prefer to know what food will be - a cheese biscuit can be excellent if I am expecting one, but horrible salty wrongness if I am expecting a sweet biscuit. But for some media, I prefer not knowing much about the content beforehand.)
