Forum: Story Recommendations

Now, I read bondage stories and bro/sis stories,

Whereas those sort of stories do nothing for me & I avoid them, yet i had no issues at all with the scenes you've described in Bec3.
Context & interpretation is everything.

I'm not sure you read the same story as I did. I found nothing that was creepy at all in Bec1,2 or 3. Like Grant said, it's all about context.

Think back to the scene where Laura ties Bec up and leaves her in a wardrobe, the scene which leads one of Laura and Tara's friends to go nuclear and publicly dump Laura.
I agree with the bit about context though.

Please tell me the prior context from which Bec and I should have seen that coming.

1- Parent, not parents- had you read the series you'd know & understand that particular point.
2- Post context, not prior context.
What happened & why was explained- that's the way most things are. You find out about the whys & how's after things happens, not before.

The fact is that BarBar would have copped a lot of flack for tagging the story as BDSM in any way, shape or form by those reading the story for such content, and then being extremely disappointed at there not being any.

And as for tagging for possible squicks, as a previous post on these forums has shown, pretty much anything can be a squick to someone.

I personally think that an author should recognize that nonconsensual nude bondage of a child would squick some people. Tara was 14. She could not legally consent, a situation that is aggravated in when the offender is a parent who has complete authority over a child.

I understand the post context argument and how the reader comes to realize, "oh, now that makes sense." I think that is the sign of a good author. I'm just not sure that a sensitive person who for whatever reason was triggered by Tara's being tied up nude and spread eagle should be expected to continue reading in order to find out that the father's action was consistent with his character and important to the plot.

I personally doubt that a significant number of people would have been offended if Bec 3 had been tagged "light bondage." But that's just me, and I could be wrong.

In the end, Bar Bar made a judgement call about the tag with which I disagree. You can't please everybody.

should be expected to continue reading in order to find out that the father's action was consistent with his character and important to the plot.

For future reference- It wasn't done by her father (for reasons that the stories make very clear).

Thank you for the correction. I misremembered and didn't intend to misrepresent the story.

That was actually an important part of the plot. Bec stopped the situation by pointing out that her/their father was going to react *really* badly when he found out. Really badly as in triggery. Which was probably the point of the scene.

The opposite is the case. It has not fallen out of favour, it has been assumed that adults had the mental fortitude to read about topics and content that was controversial, that they had no need to retreat into a safe-space, like some sort of adult pillow-fortress, that protected their precious feelings from the harsh reality.
If someone is so mentally retarded, still a mentally infirm child that needs to be protected from reality, maybe, just maybe they should not be on an adult stories platform.
Personally, I think you should use the tags that feel relevant to the story you want to tell.

Now, for a small absurdity: I get triggered by trigger-warnings, please accomodate that. Good luck creating a trigger-warning for that

I get triggered by trigger-warnings, please accomodate that. Good luck creating a trigger-warning for that

you are behind the times. You are not the fist to express a desire for trigger warning warnings.

If someone is so mentally retarded, still a mentally infirm child that needs to be protected from reality, maybe, just maybe they should not be on an adult stories platform.

While I agree that you shouldn't overuse tags, the tags are still there to be used. It's up to the authors to decide how they will use them, and I don't usually disagree with their judgement. I haven't read Bec, so wouldn't know what to think in this case.

But to argue that you shouldn't read stories here if you don't like how the real world works seems kind of misplaced since almost all stories here are fiction, not at all realistic. Alot of people read FICTION because they find it more interesting than reality. Or maybe you think that one shouldn't read stories about teenagers with 12" dicks who makes any woman drop her pants with just a look, if one can't face this "harsh reality"?

Was about to say the same. Yes, if you take @Darroks words literally, and you have an actual condition that puts your mental age as that of a child, of course you shouldn't read stories here (if you even could read at that point).

But if you're just an adult that don't like some peculiar squicks, to imply that you shouldn't read stories here if you can't handle how realistic they are, that's just plain ridiculous.

I argue that, if you have a need to be protected from anything that might offend you, you should not be on the internet, you should be in kindergarten.
Thus, I don't think that there should be rules that you have to place certain tags, if your story touches remotely on those concepts. Saying more would violate forum rule number six, so I leave it at that.

And the destigmatisation of psychological treatment would help a lot more, compared to enabling ostrich-like behaviour.
We see where your path leads to, to law-school students being allowed to skip classes dealing with sexual assault laws because they are triggering, without any repercussions (as in, being limited to what they can practise later, for a public defender those laws are a lot more important than for the average contract lawyer)

Sure, you are only advocating for that shite in a hobby-space, but I'm a firm believer in nipping things in the bud.

Imagine an abuse survivor who is happily reading a story that helps her/him and runs into an uncoded scene that matches their abuse? How should they feel? 'Oh, I'm an adult, this shouldn't bother me'? Maybe, but it might also cause them to melt down.

Just out of interest, since you seem to kill file uncoded 'events' in stories.

How do you feel about a story with basically no codes that contains a number of references to abuse, some of which are glorified, including that perpetrated on a son with the father's knowledge and consent?