Reality the Blood Wraith

Artist and soon-to-be vtuber! Probably the freak (affectionate) they warned you about. Anti censorship, pro fictional freedom, hater of children. Current faveorite things: Happy Sugar Life and Sonic.

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About Me

I'm Reality the Blood Wraith, future degen vtuber, and owner of Blood Wraith Art.

Oshi mark (for when I finally start vtubing): 🥀💙🩸🔪

Gonna be more squeaky clean while posting here since Tumblr (and the state of the internet right now) isn't alright with NSFW.

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I'm a beginner artist sharing tutorials on how to make digital art, focused on helping people actually start instead of staying in tutorial hell forever.

I like to make stained glass digital art. I'm hoping to make stuff to sell as prints later, and also assets for people to use.

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My target audience: burned out adults who are tired of labels, DNI lists, gatekeeping, censorship, minors, just want to enjoy making art in peace, and who have an interest in learning how to draw anime, animate, make video games, and who want a peaceful and fun fandom experience. If you enjoy vtubers like Fallen Shadow and Pippa, you might like my sense of humor, and if you are closer to 30, you might share my values in fiction.

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Stuff I like (overall):

✩ Anime, manga, and games with kawaii art styles. Also a big fan of older animes (even if i didn't grow up with those animes)

✧ Most aesthetics, honestly. If I had the money and felt comfortable, I'd dress in literally any way. I could be cottagecore one day, lolita dresses another day, scene another day, menhera kei another day... you never know what you're getting with me.

✩ I like exploring aspects of my favorite pieces of media that weren't explored at all or enough within it. If it's a wholesome show, I'm probably making something dark of it. If it's a dark show, the characters are likely being put into happier situations. Although, sometimes I stay canon-compliant, and other times instead of making them happier, I just make everything worse for them.

✧ Vtubers. I like the ones with a based sense of humor and also that aren't afraid to be very fucking weird.

✩ Utilizing art as a tool to scream instead of screaming at someone else that didn't do any god damn thing to me.

✧ Trying stuff out in art for the sake of it. Like a big red button that says do not push, such is my art. Sometimes I make something because I actually like that trope or ship, and other times I'm just destroying those characters just because it sounded like an interesting idea because I was bored and went, "wouldn't it be fucked up if--"

✩ Blue roses. They're like... my symbol, or whatever.

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Stuff I'm really into right now:

🛑 Filter out all ships, tropes, animes, mangas, games, and situations that you take issue with ahead of time, because if I like a ship or if I'm bored and just feel like it, ANYTHING could be explored. 🛑

✩ At the moment my main fixation is Deltarune, but I haven't really made anything, and I don't know if I will make anything NSFW since I'm not interested in that aspect of it at this time, but currently this is where my current hyperfixation is at.

I'll add more stuff later. Might even make a separate post and link to it if this gets too long.

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Important stuff about me to bare in mind:

✩ I block people who make DNI lists because they have a tendency to have too much Us vs Them mentality, and often are the types of people who will threaten, harass, doxx, and swat you over having even slightly any differing opinion from them.

✩ From now on, any new friends I make should be no younger than 25 because I want to be friends with people who are more mentally mature, and who have some life experience under their belts.

✩ If you're under 18, I'm probably blocking you before you interact. feel free to apply to be unblocked if you think I blocked you in error, and/or because you have turned an adult since having been blocked.

✩ I hate minors, but the idiots still deserve safety.

✧ All censorship is bad, and devolves into fascism quickly. Both political parties believe in censorship. Replace the word sinful with problematic and you'll begin to understand.

✩ Firmly anti harassment. Do not harass other people in my name even if they're doing something harmful to me or others.

✧ Gatekeeping entire fandoms/interests/communities is bad, but having small curated spaces like on Discord is fine.

✩ I no longer use the word queer to refer to myself. i didn't realize it was a subset of the LGBT community this different from regular gay/lesbian/bi, and would no longer like to be associated because they don't treat anyone who doesn't agree with 100% everything well at all.

✩ My friends and I use "fag(got)", "homo", "that's so gay", and "retard(ed)/(ation)" to refer to ourself and situations.

✧ I regress, and it's not a choice I make. However, understand it's not an NSFW thing. Please don't be weird about people in vulnerable states. I probably won't make the stuff in such a way that it can be found. Not due to shame, but because they usual only want people posting only family friendly stuff if they're tagging any posts with it, so I'll probably make a separate blog if I ever wanna regress online again.

✩ Not collaborating with minors, or with people that go too much against my own values, or who are uncomfortable with my values and expecting me to change. Not in a "do not interact with me" type way, but in a "I think you may be unsafe for me to be around because you've listed your deal breakers, and I meet that criteria" type way.

✧ Probably gonna draw stuff you don't agree with later, and probably already writing stuff you don't agree with.

✩ I curse and make NSFW jokes, and if I can find a way in the future when I'm a vtuber and living alone, doing NSFW would be something I find fun. I probably won't do it all the time, though.

✧ I don't wanna be friends with people who are under the age of 18. I do know two people who are (they're actually almost 18! The passage of time is so weird to me...), but that's because I accidentally became their mom in a video game, and I'm not fucking orphaning them. So they're the exception, but they're the last ones I'm ever adopting. If you lie about being 18 and we become friends, I will not remain your friend when I find out. If you tell me years later "I just turned 18", then I'm also dropping you. Why? Because that's a serious breech of trust. You can end up in unsafe situations online doing shit like that. Don't fuck with people like that.

✩ Fuck politics. Fuck religion. Fuck fandom wars. Fuck polarizing views. Fuck the team death match bullshit culture that has been normalized. I will happily clown on all sides of every argument because if you're not allowed to criticize the groups you're in, you're in a cult.

✧ I can be contradictory. This may make you question what side I'm on in an argument, but I won't explain myself because of my hatred of labels. It doesn't change that more core values are centered around thinking we need to protect people's right to live (if they want to live) and live full lives regardless of how I feel about other people. Other people can lead lives and have views and make decisions I don't agree with. I'm not the kind of person who tries to make other people conform to how I live. I just go live how I want to where they aren't, and this works for me. It's how you should do things too. It's a happier way of living.

✩ My friends and I aren't the most "mentally well" people. There will probably be mentions of not wanting to be alive in my content, especially while getting more frustrated while streaming. Lotta dark jokes. If you're not in a great mental place, that's something to consider.

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I watched Freezing back when I was a teenager, and a very large amount of years later I'm starting back in on it. I've seen one episode, and so far, it hasn't held up for me. That may be an unfair assessment since I've only seen episode 1, but it's fine. I'll come back with more thoughts later for sure.

I remember season 2 was really difficult to watch, so I guess I'll need to be in a relatively decent headspace for that, as well as set up good real life conditions to watch it (to make sure that something bad doesn't happen in real life, coupled with how hard on the mind it is to watch that), and also probably chip away at it slowly.

I remember that I found it very interesting back then, but... I dunno. It seems to be missing a certain feeling to it that other animes I've been rewatching had. Other ones held up just fine, but like I said, so far, this one isn't doing much for me for some reason.

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You hear them pronounce governor in such a way so many times that you eventually start feeling like it's not a real word anymore...

Anyway, I showed my person the whole of Valkyrie Drive Mermaid. We just finished it. I love this show, but I agree with him: it could have been a lot more than it was. It's a lot like they ran out of budget at the end and wrapped it all up way too fast or something. The game is so fucking bad. The quality is awful, and also there's no manga or literally anywhere else to get more information about their word or the nature of their powers.

I know the point of the anime is an excuse to see hot lesbians doing hot lesbian things, but it still could have been more.

Some people (haven't seen anyone talk about it) may bitch and be like "women would never do that to each other!" and I'd beg to differ. Women can also do things to other men and women without their consent. Just because it feels good doesn't mean the other person is consenting. I know these animes are made by guys and aren't actually made with these things in mind, but I like to think of these animes as a testament to the fact that anyone can choose to do the wrong thing, and I appreciate both sides being held to the same standard in that way. As a woman, I don't like that people assume we're all angels and men are all evil. I loathe that. it's not fair to the men who are angels, and it hides the crimes of the women who are devils. This kind of mentality will always cause more people to become victims since everyone is determined to put people into groups of who is good and who is bad, when in reality, anyone alive can make mistakes because we can all make choices. It's called free god damn will for a reason.

Anyway, I'm reading too much into all that.

To be honest, I'm used to animes always falling short of what they could be. I would like to see these shows develop the relationships further instead of just being an excuse to see hot things. Some animes are good at doing both, but they're not easy to find. Older animes were lower budget in that way. Regardless, since I'm used to it, I still like Valkyrie Drive Mermaid for what it is. I only wish there were fanfics depicting what we're missing. The show has enough sex, so that part is satisfied. I want to see them bond. I want to see the world developed. I want to see people who did th4e wrong thing think about what they've done, develop literally any, or even just seeing what lead up to them choosing the wrong path when they could have tried something different to escape the island.

I still like this anime anyway. I've seen it maybe three times now.

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Deltarune chapter 5 spoilers. Just realized something (short post)

The golden flower torn in half in chapter 3 was a spoiler for what happened to Flowery.

[realitythebloodwraith]

I love Deltarune, but I do have issues with some things.

It's still recent, so let me just stick all this behind spoilers. I tagged with lots of stuff you can filter to avoid these kinds of posts across the whole fandom, but I care either way.

I hope you understand that people are able to enjoy media while also criticizing issues with it, and that this doesn't negate a person's love for the media in question. With that in mind, feel free to read more if you're ready.

Spoilers for both the regular and Snowgrave routes of Deltarune chapter 5.

You basically don't get a full experience at all, or even close to it without literally tearing up the entire world checking everything twice or more to get every single interaction.

2. If you don't do that with desire to more the story forward already, you don't truly know what is going on. Which means when mysteries that are building up suddenly drop what is happening, they will think it was out of nowhere and not get it.

3. There's another deeper layer to this. If the assumptions we have that Undertale and Deltarune are directly related and parallels and such, the Undertale players can get a full experience without playing Deltarune, but Deltarune players won't get a full experience without playing Undertale first. There are too many mysteries you can uncover in Undertale that may very well get answered in Deltarune, but it will confuse and alienate casual players.

Don't get me wrong. I love these games, but I'm also not a casual. The theories really bring the community together and are a lot of fun, but my person is a casual player, and when I tried to help him get caught up with the hours upon hours of prior lore and explanations about missing characters such as December and Gaster and other such things and how Sans is clearly from both worlds, he got stressed out, and all the effort that i put into helping him be caught up didn't change his mind on how the story telling is being done.

The reward for playing a game is to uncover its secrets, I know, but I think exploration should be the reward instead. Stories like these punish you by withholding a large chunk of the story from you if you don't explore. It's why some streamers no longer want to stream games like Deltarune and Undertale. Because the audience doesn't let them discover things on their own and tells them to explore literally everything. You should only explore because you want to, not as a checklist.

While playing chapter 5, I was stressed out thinking about how I needed to get all the secrets in one go, lest I have to do it again. But there was a lot to explore, and I wasn't enjoying that chapter very much as it was. Feeling like I have to explore or I won't understand what is going on is not a good feeling. It's a place where Undertale and Deltarune is weakened quite a bit in how it tells the story.

There's even more. In chapter 5, you meet Flowery. You get no explanations on why he knows about menus and stats and voice clips and why he can override player choices. But if you played Undertale: ✿ Flowery is Flowey's alias he uses while talking to Papyrus. As that alias, he tells other people secrets they aren't supposed to know, and giving extra praises towards the person.

✿ Flowey has Player powers. In his omega form, he has more determination and can override your decisions, save over your death, load and reload and kill you repeatedly. He knows about resets, he knows about the world being a game.

Then you would know that the reason we probably were not able to get explanations on why Flowery knows those things too is because we needed prior knowledge of Flowey.

Someone may say, "Well, couldn't they watch a play through of Undertale? or go play it for themselves?" and to that i say, once again, why did they need prior knowledge that takes 15+ hours to get (because of HAVING to explore every single thing for every secret in the game) to be able to appreciate what Flowery is supposed to represent? You may say "go watch clips that only have Flowey in them" and sure, that cuts down on the amount you have to look into it to understand, but that's not enough. There was so much interwoven into who/what Flowey is. The whole game is fucking centered around a decision he and his best friend made. You can't get the full context or feel the weight of that decision without actually playing or watching a full Undertale play through, which is why it's an issue.

Toby Fox said Deltarune isn't a sequel or a prequel and is set in an alternate world, but it feels like you're still required to play/watch Undertale to be able to actually play this game. You can make it through the game just fine without that knowledge, but you don't get a full experience if you do one without the other.

I did both and I did them in the right order and as blind as I could. But even with how much I love these games, I'm also getting stressed by the checklist. Like I said, exploration is supposed to be the reward. it should be fun instead of getting worried about not exploring enough and missing things. We're worried if we don't have all the eggs, all the black shards, all the recruits that we'll just be locked out of the best ending we can get. Now, we have no way to know if that's going to actually affect anything or just be another one of those "you'll get some other lore that doesn't affect the ending" type things, but it's getting long and frustrating.

I still want to see the ending. I am excited about where we're going, but I also don't know how he will be able to cram the rest of the story into two chapters at this point. I like the theories and how the community comes together to talk about all of these things. But I don't like what it takes to get a full experience. It goes beyond Undertale and Deltarune. There are references to things outside the games that if you had prior knowledge made the game an even more exciting and full experience. if you don't know those things, you feel like you just watched two people go have a psychotic break and drown in the lake together for no reason. I may know better what may be happening now, but I had to go on YouTube to understand? Why did I need to go outside the game and learn it was referencing something so fully unrelated to be able to appreciate what this story is trying to do?

I'm feeling like Asgore, but instead of realizing I shouldn't give unwanted affection to people, I've realized that when I go tell my stories that i shouldn't do this. If people can't get the full experience if they don't go examine a single pixel that was shifted a little too far to the right and go do research on the lore of how the sun exists in the sky and the clouds turn only certain shades during the sunset on the eve of a solar eclipse because the world is ending and 2 +2 = fish and we need to fight god and the devil is here... that's not very good story telling. It can be fun, yeah, I admit, but... casual players don't like that. I don't like that my person doesn't enjoy this game for these reasons, and I also don't like now that I'm starting to worry about missing small details, lest I not get the full experience.

Man, that Flowery shit... even with my prior knowledge and full-on obsession with Flowey Undertale, I STILL took all night thinking about it to understand what they were trying to do with that in Deltarune and understand that it's apparently a closed loop explanation without telling more. Maybe it's supposed to be answered later in the story when players go deeper in, but... what if it never gets done? what if it really is supposed to only be a question that Undertale answers? If I hadn't played first, I wouldn't have known. This really isn't a good or nice way to tell stories, or to do to players in general.

"But it's Deltarune! Of course the players played Undertale first!" I know that most probably did, but statistically, nothing is ever 100% certain. I am sure that some Deltarune players hadn't played Undertale first for their own reasons. "Then go play it to get the full experience, or watch a video!" if you still feel this way, then I was unable to reach you. "Then maybe you aren't the target audience!" you have to drop $25 on Deltarune and most people will look up "do I need to play the other game first" and it literally says "no, it's not a sequel or prequel to Undertale" so they buy Deltarune not realizing that it's so interwoven with Undertale that you really do need to play Undertale to be caught up. So $25 on Deltarune + $10 for Undertale. This isn't a lot of money, but it's still more than most people have. Not to mention there's so many things you have to look at in both games as well as theory and explanation videos that explain why things are how they are. If you're not like me and not like the rest of the players that are entirely obsessed and have it as a special interest and are only fixated on this, then you likely are someone who just wants to play it and move on or play it and look at fan content after. But the fan content is usually made by people who have basically ALL the context, so casual fans don't know what the blue hairy FUCK is going on.

My person literally doesn't know why people who you have to go out of your way to learn about are important, and is frustrated at the concept that characters he hasn't/may not ever get to meet are what the rest of the story may be orbiting around (December and Gaster.) He doesn't know why he needs to have information about Sans being taken from Deltarune and put in Undertale. And I honestly agree. Unfortunately, these things ARE important. You have to know these things to know why the mystery we're building up to solving is so integral.

If i keep going, I'll just loop through the same thoughts over and over again. I'm leaving it here.

For casual fans like my person, to them, this game is a game about quirky characters who are going to save the world, or die trying. For the rest of us, it's a game about an eldritch being who gave us the ability to control some teenager, and how the people around them are uncovering the mystery about a college-age girl who got lost in the void, and about a group of people who were lost following the eldritch being. Do you understand it now?

Casual players are not playing the same game as the rest of us, and that's the issue.

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Without spoiling anything, I'm not enjoying the new chapter. Others may not feel the same way, but I'm just irritated and stressed out and everything feels like it's in the way of me getting to just... move the story forward. I didn't used to feel that way, but I may be maybe half way through this thing, and when i found a save, i chose to save and leave because I'm not enjoying myself, and video games are supposed to be fun.

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Just remembered I need to filter out Deltarune spoilers till I play chapter 5. I'll likely watch a weird ruloute video because tbh it is a miserable playthrough

Anyway, really excited to play it. I hope I get obsessed again. It gives glorious dopamine.

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Taking Hikaru x Kaoru requests!

If you didn't realize what kind of writer I am when you followed me, this is a great opportunity to unfollow and block me! No hard feelings!

IMPORTANT: No matter how old this gets, feel free to keep sending requests! ONLY send them via ask, please! It's easier to keep up with! You can be anonymous!

Rules

Please be 18 years of age or older if you ask for anything or engage with me or my work.

Don't harass any of the readers, and don't harass me for what I write. Filter things, or block me if you're that uncomfortable.

You can give ideas for a setting if you want, but I also may just take your ship and run with it and do god damn anything to them instead, so have fun, I guess.

Please give me a blog i can tag! You can make an alt if you have to for it. I WON'T WRITE YOUR THING IF I CAN'T TAG YOU TO TELL YOU I WROTE IT.

Please comment on the story, please. it's all an author ever asks for. These are free requests I'm doing. I just want to know you had fun reading it. A rude comment will result in me not writing new stories for you, and ban evading will be considered harassment.

One request at a time, please!

What I won't do:

I won't write stuff I'm not interested in, which could be anything.

I will not attack or harass you over requests I don't want to do.

I won't write for you if you keep reminding me to write your story, OR if you harass me in any way.

I will not give an explanation for why I'm taking so long, or why i didn't do your request.

I refuse to write oc/canon, canon/reader, or anything inappropriate pertaining to real people or fan characters (unless the fan characters are mine, which i haven't done in ages because I'm uninterested.)

At this time, I am not interested in writing crossover stories, so I won't ship the Our*n characters with like... Hats*ne M*ku or whatever

I will probably get around to your story one day, just know there may be a lot of requests, and I'm also very stressed out.

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Imagine if they could properly adapt Metaphor. It would make a fantastic 52 episode anime.

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If you believe in something, throw your whole pussy into it.

If you find out you were wrong, you're allowed to change to the new belief.

You're not required to believe in everything all at once. Most people deadass will not believe in every belief that comes from a group, and you won't find that no matter how hard you niche down to find it.

Don't back down on your beliefs just because you're being attacked, but also be open-minded about new ideas. You're not required to take those new ideas as your own, but you can try to be respectful about the fact the other person is wrong.

If someone is trying to make you change your views (maliciously, not trying to discuss, but just literally trying to attack) double down. Don't bend the knee. i promise they only want to control you, not to actually help others.

Anyway, I intend to continue being myself even if others don't like that. I know my people exist, and I won't let myself bend the knee anymore to people who wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire. I will continue to write and draw what makes me happy/what interests me, and I will go out of my way to encourage the next up coming artists to do the same. I want to be their inspiration. their proof that someone was able to be herself completely, and doing so brought discomfort, but did not kill her.

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[soapyysoda]

DELTARUNE TOMORROW

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I am gonna be so incredibly not normal this month. My person and I were literally talking about how it could maybe come as late as September, and then a few days later, we got the news. I need this dopamine so bad. Nothing can to this feeling.

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Guys is Tumblr safe to update because the app is asking me to do it and I don't trust these fuckers. Is it that terrible age verification shit, or is it all good?

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I'm looking forward to creating vroid (and in general art assets) that are as free from limitations on what people can use them for as possible because if you pay for art, you should be allowed to use it in any way you want.

The only limitations there should ever be in my opinion:

Don't act as if you're the one that created the art.

2. If you modify it, disclose that you modified it, and link back to the original creator.

3. Don't use it with generative AI.

4. Don't resell it.

5. If you want to use it for resale or in a movie/large scale production, buy a license (which should be a ONE TIME PURCHASE DO NOT BE GREEDY DAMMIT YOU ARE NOT ADOBE DON'T FUCKING MAKE PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE MONTHLY TO USE THE ART THEY BOUGHT WHAT IS FUCKING WRONG WITH YOU)

6. Declare that you do not have any affiliation with anyone who purchases/uses your art, and make the buyer say "I bought this asset from this artist, and none of the artists I am using assets from have nay affiliation with each other or with me." This fixes the "oh no! my brand is being tarnished! oh no my moral principles!!!!11111!!!!11!!1!1!!1!" (ugh)

I believe in as much freedom of expression and speech as possible. I don't care if you're out there wearing things I designed on your vtuber model and doing things that are directly against my beliefs. That is your right. what you do does not directly harm me, and I'm not responsible for what you do. I'd never come rug pull you and try to demand you stop wearing what I designed (AFTER YOU BOUGHT IT WITH YOUR HARD EARNED CASH GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE) when I see that our beliefs are so far unaligned that knowing you would make me sick. We're not associated. If people come and demand that I go solve you as if you're a problem, I'm going to tell them to eat a dick and leave me alone, and that's what everyone is supposed to do.

I'm looking very forward to putting things out there for people to use. I'm so irritated. Imagine buying something and basically finding out you literally cannot do anything with it. Fuck this. There's a reason people are turning to AI instead. You're so fucking entitled. The art community is so toxic and insufferable. Unbelievable.

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No longer identifying as queer. I thought it was a catch-all term that made it easier for me to navigate life without having to be forced to label myself, but it turned out to be an ideological movement that I do not wish to be conflated with.

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"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

[realitythebloodwraith]

Hey. Please be careful. They may be trying to bait people who turned automatic app updates off because they're trying to roll out age verification. Before updating, make sure this update doesn't include age verification.

Aside from impending doom, I'd love to look at my likes in order.

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you know exactly who you are and everyone who meets you knows exactly what they're getting into (because you've been burned before and feel the need to scare people away with your bluntness)

What bothers me:

- Dead dove cannot be a tag by itself. Dead Dove: Do Not Eat is in reference to a scene from a show where someone put a dead dove inside a container and labelled it like that. When the other person opened it anyway and there was a dead fucking dove in there, he said, “I don’t know what I was expecting.” 

- Dead Dove by itself as a tag would be the same as coming across a sign that says “CAUTION” and then doesn’t explain what you need to be cautious of. Is it a warning that there’s a dog nearby that eats faces? Is it warning you that if you take an extra step further you’ll be too close to the elephant’s foot in Chernobyl? If these make no sense to you yet, Dead Dove by itself is the same as a YouTuber starting their video with just saying “TRIGGER WARNING!” and then not telling you what the trigger they are warning you for is. If this isn’t making it easier to get, let’s say you need a warning for epilepsy because you will be actually hospitalized or killed by flashing lights, and they only warn you with “CONTENT WARNING!”

- Since there was a dead dove in the fridge and there was a warning on the lid before it was opened, it translates to: “What is being warned for is going to be in this art.” and you will say, “well, yeah, if they said it was in there then why double tag?” the dead dove tag means it will be in there in an intensity that means it is what the art centers around, or is done in such detail that it will be exactly what someone searching for that wanted, and the exact opposite of what you wanted if that isn’t what you want to see.

- I want to give an example using non-triggering tags to make this easier to understand for general audiences: Let’s say you tag your fic with “cats” because there were occasional mentions of cats or moments with cats. Enough for it to be a “cat fic” if you will. This helps people who love cats get a nice cat fic, and helps people who would like to not see cats not see it. But if it’s labeled with “cats” AND “dead dove” or “dead dove do not eat” that fics is going to be in-detail FOCUSED on cats. It will describe the things cats do. The sounds they make. The sharpness of their teeth. The way they eat. The detailed softness of their fur. You are going to be immersed in the experience similarly to how you would do method acting in theater. If you genuinely like cats (and sometimes still if you like cats), this can be overwhelming even for people who like it. It can sometimes feel like it’s so indulgent that you can’t tell if it’s that writer’s personal experience being regaled verbatim like a love letter to sin, or the result of 50+ google searches that would get someone on a very special list that they have never experienced at all, nor will they ever. Obviously, if you were already uncomfortable with cats in fiction as a concept, a dead dove fic FOR CATS is going to cause you issues.

Please don’t click on a dead dove fic that doesn’t tell you what the warning is for. You double tag: “cats” “dead dove do not eat” like that. You can even triple tag to remind people to read the tags.

I’d say my stuff is definitely the sort of thing that requires this tag, but I really honestly just don’t add it because I already expected you to read the tags, and this tag in a round about way literally is telling you to read the tags. If this tag wasn’t being misused to the point that someone has to explain this so often, I’d use it, but because they ruined its meaning and the point of utilizing it, it’s become a useless tag.