Request to my friends: Trigger Warnings for violent news

[asterroc]

Trigger Warning: vague categories of things which I find triggery right now due to current events are mentioned below. Due to current events, even this vagueness might be triggery for others.


I do not want to read about any sort of violence, attacks, injuries, deaths, etc. If you are going to post about news of this sort, I would like to request that you do one or more of the following:

1. Use a trigger warning in the subject or first line of the post. For example, "Trigger warning: Watertown attacks", "TW: Texas explosion", "Content warning: MIT events", "TW: Boston", "CW: violence, injuries, blood and gore". Anything of this sort is enough that I can skip over the post and just move on to the next one.


2. Put it behind a cut with some sort of TW/CW in the text so I know not to click


3. Create a filter which I'm not on.

Anyone who posts something which upsets me I may unfollow for an indefinite period of time for my own mental health, with or without a warning or a further request for TWs. Things that are ok are personal reflections (limiting the retelling of the event itself), uplifting stories about coping with the aftermath, clinical/medical content, fanfic involving the exact same topics and descriptions (yeah, go figure, discussions of amputations of real people even if I don't know them or don't even have their names = BAD, discussions of amputations of fictional characters even characters I love or children = FINE). (So yeah, even just describing that BAD scenario as vaguely as I did made me feel like I want to puke.)

Today I have

1. unfollowed @CNN on Twitter and decided not to visit their webpage for a while,


2. decided that wasn't enough and just avoided visiting all news websites,


3. complained profusely on Facebook and Twitter about people posting links and images without trigger warnings,


4. decided not to visit Twitter again until Monday unless I am specifically told by other people that it's safe,


5. and just now decided not to visit Facebook again until Monday, period.

Do not make me give up LJ/DW for the weekend too, or I'll be really pissed and probably cry. So yeah, use trigger warnings, cut-tags, or filters.

Edit: Damnit. I can't go entirely FB-dark b/c I'm coordinating getting tickets to an event on Saturday evening via FB. Fuck.

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