Archive housekeeping post

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In light of the recent discussion/argument over warnings going on in wider fandom:

If any of y'all have any suggestions, criticism, or comments on the warnings and genre tags and other metadata at the Tales of Suspense website/archive (a tag you would like to see included, an issue with the way something is currently being labeled or warned for), please feel free to either comment here about it or to PM or email myself or seanchai.

ToS currently has a list of optional warning tags, with two mandatory-warning exceptions: major character death (yes, even if it's Steve's death that happened in canon, and no, I don't care if that's silly) and non-con/rape.

The non-con/rape warning is mandatory both because issues of consent in general and onscreen rape in particular can be major triggers for surviors of sexual abuse or assault, and because several people on the comm specifically asked for such a warning on the site.

A generic "Kink!" tag is currently included on the ToS archive's list of warnings. I am considering altering that, and making a seperate metadata category for kinks, because several people have said during the ongoing warnings/triggers discussion currently going on in wider fandom that they dislike it when authors lump consensual sex acts in with death/abuse/assault. We'd also welcome y'all's opinions on that, as well as any suggestions on specific kinks you'd like to have the option of labelling for.

( List of already existing and proposed warnings behind the cut )

Note: this is warnings for the Tales of Suspense archive, not for the comm.