M_Star_25
Anyone else think the new guidelines are over censoring a little? Like, "awareness-focused narratives" of self-harm must be marked mature, are we trying to hide it from kids or something? Plenty of kids self-harm and we're not gonna let them read about it? Stuff like this is why people like my friend doesn't realize they self-harm just because it's not the traditional form of self-harm
Angel_Slayer5
@M_Star_25 as someone who SHed when I was a kid (young teen, but I had always had the mental health problems) being able to read stories where I could see people like me struggle helped me in ways I can’t describe. Seeing Charlie spring, and Lukas Lockhart heal, and recover filled me with this bittersweet feeling. “if they can do it, then maybe so can I” I don’t want to take that feeling away from people who need it. And I don’t want kids to have to go to the mature label just to read them, because there be smut ther e
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M_Star_25
@Angel_Slayer5 I think that's how everyone sees it, like are we seriously gonna disallow children from reading a recovery story that might help them because they're "Too young" for a story about what they're living through! It's stupid!
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Angel_Slayer5
@M_Star_25 Sorry what? Suicide and Sh affect children too, and they should be allowed to read those stories. (Authors should give tw’s though) The Mature label is for smut, at least that how I see it
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