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[melannen]

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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[melannen]

I can definitely see someone wanting something like "please CNTW my gift fic, I don't need any warnings and I prefer to be surprised", though I suspect it would get you on the wank comms even if you stated it that clearly. And for a kink meme where everybody can see the prompt already even that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Or even the sort of fic where terrible things or extreme kinks happen, but in the end it was all a dream/sex fantasy! So you're saying I'm okay with a fic which would need all these warning tags as long as it isn't actually what the warning tags imply it is. That kind of fic can often be really good, and I have been known to post kinkmeme prompts that end with "This might be more IC if it's a roleplay or masturbation fantasy and I'm there for that."

I don't think DNW'ing Dead Dove will get you that, though, no matter how logical that would be.