It's more--there's adult (sex) and adult (violence) and adult (sexual violence), and conflating those three is conflating apples, oranges, and pomegranates. If I know an author, then when I pick up their fic, I already have a pretty good idea where their limits are and the worst that will happen is I get squicked. For someone who gets triggered, the worst that happens is relieving a horrific, if not the most horrific period, of their lives. For me, as a storyteller, the entire point of my writing is lost the second that happens. For me, as a human, I feel like I've dropped down a step in evolution.
This is not a judgment on how anyone else sees this; this reaction is personally shocking to me as i've had about twelve hours to process this, so it's still very fresh and new that not only does this happen to people, something I did could cause it.
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It's more--there's adult (sex) and adult (violence) and adult (sexual violence), and conflating those three is conflating apples, oranges, and pomegranates. If I know an author, then when I pick up their fic, I already have a pretty good idea where their limits are and the worst that will happen is I get squicked. For someone who gets triggered, the worst that happens is relieving a horrific, if not the most horrific period, of their lives. For me, as a storyteller, the entire point of my writing is lost the second that happens. For me, as a human, I feel like I've dropped down a step in evolution.
This is not a judgment on how anyone else sees this; this reaction is personally shocking to me as i've had about twelve hours to process this, so it's still very fresh and new that not only does this happen to people, something I did could cause it.