No problem at all, it's just really fascinating to me how different people categorize things, because I would never have grouped those two things under the same category! (Er, this makes me wonder if you feel the rape/noncon warning on AO3 should be applied to mind control fics as well? Genuine question, I'm just curious! And always reassessing how I tag/label things.)
Anyway ... your comment about Healing Sex made me realize that for me, this particular kind of recovery fic is really specifically a thing I want in its gen incarnation -- again with the caveat that if you're doing recs anyway, you may as well put in ones that aren't specifically what I'm looking for, since other people will probably be interested in them as well! But rape recovery fic with pairings is something I probably wouldn't read. (Ummm, I might with a rarepair, or poly fic? I think the issue is that it's really specifically something where I don't want to read fic for this that's particularly romantic or pairing-focused, as OTP fic often is; i.e. a get-together fic with rape as part of that is a really huge turnoff for me, even if the rapist isn't one-half of the pairing. Something that was established relationship or where the pairing was more low-key and background-ish, with other relationships foregrounded, might work better for me.)
And yeah, I know that I'm being incredibly specific about this. XD I mean, this has a lot to do with why I almost never read it and have never written it, because it's one of those things where what I do want has huge overlap with what I don't want.
Anyway, if you're making categories anyway, a gen recovery category would be very useful for me, if you know any fics like that!
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Date: 2019-10-07 11:16 pm (UTC)Anyway ... your comment about Healing Sex made me realize that for me, this particular kind of recovery fic is really specifically a thing I want in its gen incarnation -- again with the caveat that if you're doing recs anyway, you may as well put in ones that aren't specifically what I'm looking for, since other people will probably be interested in them as well! But rape recovery fic with pairings is something I probably wouldn't read. (Ummm, I might with a rarepair, or poly fic? I think the issue is that it's really specifically something where I don't want to read fic for this that's particularly romantic or pairing-focused, as OTP fic often is; i.e. a get-together fic with rape as part of that is a really huge turnoff for me, even if the rapist isn't one-half of the pairing. Something that was established relationship or where the pairing was more low-key and background-ish, with other relationships foregrounded, might work better for me.)
And yeah, I know that I'm being incredibly specific about this. XD I mean, this has a lot to do with why I almost never read it and have never written it, because it's one of those things where what I do want has huge overlap with what I don't want.
Anyway, if you're making categories anyway, a gen recovery category would be very useful for me, if you know any fics like that!