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#1: Jul 21st 2022 at 2:49:02 PM

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While not exactly pedo-pandering as it's more focused on the aftermath, the fic has many chapters that detail sexual abuse and rape, and sometimes provides details of the actual rape. Specifically, at least half of the work concerns child sexual abuse.

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#2: Jul 21st 2022 at 4:35:36 PM

This was a bit of a premature flag of mine when I first came across the fic. Having delved more into it, it's not explicit and focuses on the trauma surrounding CSA. Assaults are described in some cases but never explicitly and it is absolutely not titillating. It also has several side stories that aren't just about sexual abuse.

That said, I'm also a guest author on two chapters so my word might mean less here.

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#3: Jul 21st 2022 at 4:47:47 PM

I actually read through the fic's TVT page a while back (I don't have the guts to read the fic itself). From what I can remember from reading it, it portrays the sexual assault stuff completely seriously and condemns the abusers. Despite being stated as being graphically detailed, none of it, including those involving minors, seems to be used for titillating reasons. Rather, seems to portray this Rape as Drama and the plot focuses more on how characters cope with trauma in general (not just SA, there are a few that had trauma from different places).

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jul 21st 2022 at 4:49:28 AM

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#4: Jul 21st 2022 at 5:24:42 PM

I haven't read it but from what I understand, yeah, it portrays the characters as victims and shows the trauma from sexual abuse, it's not meant to be titillating.

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#5: Jul 25th 2022 at 3:14:14 PM

I've read the fic and I think it's worth mentioning that the part about it being explicitly detailed simply is not true. The assaults are not described via graphic sex acts, let alone sex acts with child characters. It's certainly gory and violent, but there's very little time devoted to actual rape scenes. No more than your average law and order episode, anyway. Usually the reader gets the lead up to a rape followed by the aftermath and if the rape is described it's always in vague terms that typically don't even mention genitalia.

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#6: Jul 27th 2022 at 3:40:02 AM

Fine with keeping this. Sounds tasteful.

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#7: Sep 5th 2022 at 1:49:56 AM

Bumping to get it out of the stack of locked threads.

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#11: Sep 12th 2022 at 2:27:22 PM

Keep

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#12: Sep 15th 2022 at 2:06:50 PM

I think we got consensus now. I'll holler a lock.

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#13: Sep 16th 2022 at 12:27:14 AM

Locking, then.

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