“Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” becoming standard and widespread fandom terminology is extremely funny to me, a scientific illustrator who’s the child of an environmental educator

specimens in the freezer have always been normal for me, so when antis get up in arms about dead dove fics, part of me is just like ‘but that’s where they GO’

fandom is the correct place for metaphorical dead doves just like the freezer is the correct place for literal ones

....jokey extended metaphors aside, tbh if more people had to deal with the realities of death and blood as a normal part of life as children they'd probably be less weirdly aggressive about P/roblematic Content In Fiction as adults

I.... I think I talked myself around to 'prevent fandom antis by raising more kids on farms'

not where I thought I was going with this thread, but I stand by it, as a take