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Okay, so here is the deal - officially I am "Choose not to warn" for my vids. I don't want warnings about my vids appearing in the program book or in the blurb or on the vid itself.
I am fairly confident when it comes to VVC, that at this point a lot of people pretty much know what they might be getting from me, but I was asked (nicely) in a comment elsewhere to explicitly state that I use vidding as a way to cope with secondary trauma. So yes. This is something I do.
I also used vidding as a way to cope with a lot of other stuff, because it is a creative outlet for me and something I've loved for many years. I look forward to making more vids and sharing them and enjoying this into the future.
I'm not a fan at all of the ticky box warning resolutions being bandied about - mostly because people are not ticky boxes and triggers? Can be very specific (or not!) depending on the person experiencing them. There is no One-Size-Fits-All (and I do have experience with this) when we talk about how people react to and cope with trauma.
Do I want someone to watch a vid I have made and be triggered? Absolutely not. Do I want to make sure that someone who has a trigger has information so they can make an informed choice about watching them? Yes. Do I think I can effectively decide what is going to trigger someone without their imput? Not really. I mean to an extent I think it can be somewhat useful in a broad sense, but I don't think I should be making the absolute call on what someone else might find triggering. I'd much rather that person, who is real and exists and isn't hypothetical, make that call.
So, I talked it over with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cappylicious and she's cool with me answering any questions about any of our vids (we have a number of premiering vids, apart and as collaborations, this year). Comments on this post are screened and will not be unscreened. If you want to just ask here, please leave an email address for me to use or indicate if PM will be acceptable (whatever makes you more comfortable, really). Anonymous comments are enabled - I won't be able to respond to them without unscreening so if you can leave a way for me to get the information to you (and an anonymous email account is fine) I'll get the information out as quickly as possible.
If you don't feel that you can discuss this/ask me/ email or whatever, I am perfectly fine being contacted by an intermediary or someone you trust to get this information to you. I hope we can all go to Vividcon and have a wonderfully wonderful time and finally get to really talk about, I don't know, maybe vids? I hear tell vids are really cool.
ETA: tl;dr version: Won't warn for vids in a program book but if you do need warning ask here (screened) or via email at sisabet at yahoo and I'll get that information to you.
I am fairly confident when it comes to VVC, that at this point a lot of people pretty much know what they might be getting from me, but I was asked (nicely) in a comment elsewhere to explicitly state that I use vidding as a way to cope with secondary trauma. So yes. This is something I do.
I also used vidding as a way to cope with a lot of other stuff, because it is a creative outlet for me and something I've loved for many years. I look forward to making more vids and sharing them and enjoying this into the future.
I'm not a fan at all of the ticky box warning resolutions being bandied about - mostly because people are not ticky boxes and triggers? Can be very specific (or not!) depending on the person experiencing them. There is no One-Size-Fits-All (and I do have experience with this) when we talk about how people react to and cope with trauma.
Do I want someone to watch a vid I have made and be triggered? Absolutely not. Do I want to make sure that someone who has a trigger has information so they can make an informed choice about watching them? Yes. Do I think I can effectively decide what is going to trigger someone without their imput? Not really. I mean to an extent I think it can be somewhat useful in a broad sense, but I don't think I should be making the absolute call on what someone else might find triggering. I'd much rather that person, who is real and exists and isn't hypothetical, make that call.
So, I talked it over with
cappylicious and she's cool with me answering any questions about any of our vids (we have a number of premiering vids, apart and as collaborations, this year). Comments on this post are screened and will not be unscreened. If you want to just ask here, please leave an email address for me to use or indicate if PM will be acceptable (whatever makes you more comfortable, really). Anonymous comments are enabled - I won't be able to respond to them without unscreening so if you can leave a way for me to get the information to you (and an anonymous email account is fine) I'll get the information out as quickly as possible. If you don't feel that you can discuss this/ask me/ email or whatever, I am perfectly fine being contacted by an intermediary or someone you trust to get this information to you. I hope we can all go to Vividcon and have a wonderfully wonderful time and finally get to really talk about, I don't know, maybe vids? I hear tell vids are really cool.
ETA: tl;dr version: Won't warn for vids in a program book but if you do need warning ask here (screened) or via email at sisabet at yahoo and I'll get that information to you.
