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What is sanitized fanfic? (Very real question. I don't read fic in any other fandoms. ) I figure people should write what the want , tag it so readers know what they are getting into and then peopke either read it or don't.
This fandom (and a ton of other fandoms) used to be full of really edgy fics. I mean, look at Iolokus. It’s one of the most popular XF fics maybe of all time and it’s full of rough sex, rape/non-con, torture, and the darkest possible sides of our agents. I never see any Mulder!torture fics anymore and that used to be a huge part of the genre. Ever since the Great and Terrible Livejournal Strikethrough (where someone got a bunch of porn communities taken down claiming they were promoting underage sex/pedophilia) and FF.net taking down all their porn, there’s been a big “purity” movement in a lot of the major fandoms, trying to get things taken down because they don’t like them. You see a lot of this in the backlash against AO3 - because they will host anything, people get mad and say the whole site should be taken down.
Absolutely everything should be tagged. I try to give content warnings for my fic. And I don’t personally write a lot of stuff that’s super edgy, I don’t think, but it certainly gave dimension to the fandom experience. Fanfic used to be where you could find some of the weirdest, most experimental, most disturbing stories, and now that side is mostly gone, or if anyone does write something that colors outside the lines, people complain and try to get it taken down.
