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contemplating kink memes, reading fanlore, and thinking about squicks, triggers, and all the things somewhere beyond squicks that aren’t triggers but I don’t really have a word

you can have squicks that aren’t triggers and squicks that are

triggers that aren’t squicks, too

other things that are uncomfortable or upsetting with varying degrees of value judgement

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 I can’t believe I forgot Due South.  I made a list of fandoms I’ve been in and I left out a bunch but how did I leave out the first one?

I forgot that before college, before Usenet, before all the Star Trek smut and contemporaneous with Xena there was Due South.  In those days if a website had pictures I had to wait many long minutes to load them cuz modem.

I feel like moving from general show appreciation to meta and fanworks and discovering slash coincided with the sloooow creeping realization that “queer” is a necessary description of me.  I never once met any LGBTQIA+ person and knew it before college, despite the fact that EVERYONE had or knew someone who had an uncle or a cousin with AIDS.

The world has changed.