Do you think authors need more than just the dead dove tag to properly warn people of what's to come? For example, should I label my works "dddne because of *this* triggering topic" or is the dead dove tag simply enough?
dead dove tag alone doesn’t tell anyone anything. like. at all. dead dove means “you have been warned”, but if you don’t tell your readers what you’re warning them about, they’re not gonna know what the content of the fic you’re warning them about is. is it non-con? is it violence? is it gore? they’re not going to be able to know it. dead dove tag is supposed to be used to emphasize the actual warning tag(s). it’s not supposed to be used as a standalone tag.
that said, most writers don’t use “dead dove: do not eat because of xyz”. how it’s commonly used is “dead dove: do not eat” as one tag, and then different tags that tell the audience about the actual warnings.
for instance, “dead dove: do not eat”, “blood and gore”, “rape/non-con”, etc
Exhausted reminder that this is the origin of DD:DNE.
The DD:DNE tag means that you should expect to see exactly what other tags advertise and not to come in the comments crying screaming throwing up when you were warned, but for all this to work there should be appropriate and extensive tagging!
