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I have been lurking some prompt memes lately, and I keep seeing "DNW: Dead doves" on anon kink prompts

I don't...

"Dead dove" means "this fic is clearly labelled and fully warned for, so if you open it you know what you are getting." DNW: Dead Dove means... that you want your fic to be badly tagged and unwarned so that you're blindsided by things? I don't understand.

I guess I can see a meaning drift where people are reading "dead dove" to just refer to all of the content that usually needs to be thoroughly warned for, but I've seen dnw: Dead Dove on some pretty kinktomato-flavored prompts. "DNW: Dead Doves" on a prompt for dubcon incest is even less comprehensible than it would be generally.

Does it mean "The only fucked-up content I want in my fic is the content that is already tagged in my prompt"? But that's what dead dove means. If you only want the fucked-up stuff that is clearly tagged you are in fact asking for a dead dove fic.

Can fandom please, in advance of the winter exchange season, please just agree that "dead dove" is not something that makes sense to list in your DNWs? Please?

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Maybe it's literal.

Sadly it is not in a fandom with canonical or fanonical doves, so it's unlikely. Canaries or peacocks, *maybe*.

...I would be kind of delighted to find out there were people were reading it as a synonym for "animal harm," though.

What fandoms have canonical doves?

Besides Arrested Development, obviously. And "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus"

Hatoful boyfriend? Animaniacs? Mary Poppins? ETA: Bert/Ernie fandom?

Okay I guess those are technically referred to as pigeons, but clearly we have established that pigeons count.

Sefer Bereshit | Book of Genesis :D ?

There's a canonical undead dove in Good Omens, which I am pretty sure I have even have seen mentioned in kinkmeme prompts, since it's involved in a semi-interesting difference between book and show canon. But not as DNW: Dead Doves.

Also two different DC superheroes codenamed Dove who each spent a lot of time dead.

Edited 2020-09-18 02:59 (UTC)

Now I'm terribly tempted to sign up for Yuletide entirely with fandoms I can legitimately DNW Dead Doves for.

I support this plan, in the spirit of troublemaking. :D

(I'm also in a couple other non-AD fandoms where "Character has a bad habit of leaving dead animals and/or human body parts in the fridge" is either canon or very strong fanon. Those are fun.)

(...actually I think I now have to put a literal "dead dove in the fridge"/"I don't know what I expected" scene into the fic I'm currently writing.)

Edited 2020-09-18 14:57 (UTC)

This is the high-quality content I'm here for.

I'd forgotten that I've actually written Live!Dovefic.

https://in-the-beginning.dreamwidth.org/6156.html