A Swiftly Tilting Planet

So, I haven't posted one of my fics here in a while, but I wanted to reach my dead dove audience here, too.

Behold, a Trikey (Trevor/Michael from GTA) fic. The AU makes it such that you don't really need to have played the game to enjoy. Michael is a high school football star and rising social media viral sensation. Trevor is the creepy serial killer/career criminal who stalks him.

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

I do, however, want to point out that I am 10x more likely to skip a fic that has Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. You get burned enough times, everyone pays. And I promise, if you don't use a warning (and I mean the big ones--major character death, rape, etc.) when you should have, I will never read another fic you write. Never.

So remember that when you click that button. Just like me reading your fic is a choice I am responsible for, whether or not you properly warn is your choice, but that choice doesn't happen in a vacuum and it has consequences.

100% you always, ALWAYS have the right to skip a fic that is tagged "chose not to warn."

The tag is there to warn you that the author only wants readers in their audience who are consenting to be surprised.

Writers who tag "chose not to warn" are generally not looking to maximize the audience size of their story but rather to present their story in the most authentic way that feels right to them.

Most writers who tag "chose not to warn" will be glad that you skipped their story if you are not someone who wants to be surprised, and happy for you that you chose to take care of yourself.

i lost you before i got the chance to meet you.

Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Richard Siken, “Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” / The Mountain Goats, “Up the Wolves” / “The Haunting of Hill House” / Richard Siken, “Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” / Fred Rogers / Richard Siken, “Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” / Hamilton Cast, “It’s Quiet Uptown” / Oscar Wilde / Richard Siken, “Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

Grief & Acceptance

Richard Siken, War of the Foxes | Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers | C.S. Lewis | Maryam Mughal, Angel of Grief | Fortesa Latifi | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein | Chelsea Hodson, The End of Longing | Anna Blunden, For Only One Short Hour | Shane Madej, Hot Daga | Mary Oliver, Invitation

Inspired by a submission sent to @geloyconcepcion on Instagram ✨

“I feel the loss terribly, like a fragment of my life itself. The loss of it is like my own death.”

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis

― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

carebunny doodle

You know what? Screw it. Here’s your dose of Grumpshine.

They should’ve put them together within that official art in the first place but don’t worry, I got you all 💪💪

‘Goody Goody Gosh!’

care bears!