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Trigger & Content Warnings

This tumblr is not for debating the purpose or usefulness of trigger warnings.

Q. What is a trigger or content warning?A. A trigger or content warning, or TW and CW for short, is used to warn people of content that might illicit a strong or potentially harmful emotional response. Content warnings may usually be considered less harmful or threatening (or more broad) than trigger warnings, but the severity of response varies. For this reason, there will be no difference between content and trigger warnings on this blog, as the subjects could be both or either depending on the person. Q. What is or isn’t a trigger? Couldn’t anything be triggering?A. It’s possible, but there are common trigger/content warnings used. We will be using those. A TW/CW can be requested for tumblr savior and we will gladly tag it. If it’s a common TW/CW that we’ve forgotten, we’ll add it to our list.

Q. Why is it important to use warnings? A. There are lots of reasons, but it comes down to emotional safety and comfort. With warnings, people can feel better prepared when faced with the content, or chose to forego the content. Warnings are used to help people.

Q. What are the common warnings you use on this tumblr?

A. This is a compiled list. To suggest trigger/content warnings, send us an ask. We may add it, depending on how common it is in media and the ease of including it in our guides. Trigger/Content Warning List:

• Rape and Sexual Assault
• Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual)
• Child abuse/pedophilia
• Animal cruelty or animal death
• Self-injurious behavior (self-harm, eating disorders, etc.)
• Suicide
• Excessive or gratuitous violence
• Needles
• Depiction of pornography (including child pornography)
• Incest (including any and all elements of romantic or sexual relationships between family, tonal in theme, thought, or activity)
• Kidnapping (forceful deprivation of/disregard for personal autonomy)

• Death or dying
• Pregnancy/Childbirth
• Miscarriages/Abortion
• Blood
• Mental illness

Q. I am triggered by x, but I do not see it on your list. Why?

A. We cannot cover every trigger on this blog, but we can add it to posts that you want to avoid seeing using Tumblr Savior. Because some things are so pervasive in media (such as sexism or bad language) it would difficult to list how where and these things occur. Additionally, since we plan to have user-submitted guides, some things such as prejudice can be hard for everyone to see with a critical media eye because of certain privileges. Additionally, we have omitted things that can easily be seen from the ratings system found by the MPAA or TV warnings at the beginning of episodes or movies (such as contains violence, nudity, or language). In the guides we can suggest what additional things may be problematic or triggering, but we cannot include every detail of the show or movie.

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