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I’ve only ever written two fanfics about consent. One of them is Things They Talked About In The Playground, and that goes into it in a big way, seeing as… it’s about rape culture. The other one is Rory’s Choice, written back in 2012, and that’s…I don’t know what it’s about, and I’m not sure I’m comfortable delving too deep into it.

-Okay, I lied, I do know what it’s about, in a way I just realized, but I’m really not comfortable saying it on Tumblr as it relates directly to me. Suffice it to say-

– I never worked out how to tag it properly. With all the talk at the moment about Ao3 and its ability to warn for triggers it’s just sitting there, tagged to hell with ‘Please read the author’s notes’ etc and age-locked but not really tagged tagged. Because I don’t know what it counts as. I don’t know if the sex act at its center (perpetrated, if that’s the right word, by a female to a male) would qualify as sexual assault if put before a jury, and there’s no-one you can really ask about that. I don’t think so, but –

I’m not even sure what the titular Rory’s Choice was. I think it was “I’m going to stand by this person despite their mental illness causing harm,” but –

If anyone wants to read it and tell me what they think, what tags it actually needs, I’d be really grateful. (Although it’s a Doctor Who fic, pretty much nothing about Doctor Who beyond Amy and Rory really features in the story at all. A part of me thinks I should’ve just changed the names and kept it as original fiction.)