I really want to enjoy whump content because it’s exactly the kind of stuff that appeals to me, but I have a problem with the way whump blogs tend to flood mental illness related tags and make it really hard to find actual posts discussing disorders and symptoms, like for example I rarely bother with the touch aversion tag anymore because I won’t find posts about being touch averse, I’ll find whump posts that paint touch aversion as something tragic and angsty that can be ‘fixed’ by the right person, and it’s kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. I do really want to enjoy the posts, I just wish they’d stay out of the tags that people use to discuss their conditions and symptoms.
Yeah, if there’s one thing that I would improve with the whump community it would be tagging.
There is a reason that we don’t tag any of our whump posts with actual mental illnesses, abuse tags, etc.
I think a good solution would possibly be tagging (to take touch aversion for example) “#whump touch aversion” or “#cw touch aversion” instead of directly the main tag.
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