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Re: dear coal advice column 2

[(Anonymous)]

This might be me, I nominated a couple WWII-related fandoms and explicitly okayed a lot of stuff.

Putting in anything that deals directly with canon - i e., expanding on a veteran's or survivor's canon backstory - would probably be fine. If it's a pre-war canon, giving a character who is likely to have been involved some war stories is also fine. Since they okay'd angst, having that get pretty dark would also be fine.

Mainly I would avoid a) sympathetic Nazis, which will likely get you wank even if recip likes it, and b) genocide porn. That is, non-graphic Holocaust references are probably fine, as is someone describing or remembering their experiences. Detailed fetishizing accounts of death camps and dying Jews I would only do for a specific request (and probably not even then.) "Savior" stories about someone heroically saving helpless Jews from the camps, likewise. And do your research for anything more than a passing reference.

I would warn for even minor Holocaust references unless it's an obviously inherent part of canon, though. People don't want to stumble into that.

Re: dear coal advice column 2

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not totally certain I understand what detailed fetishizing accounts would entail (and honestly, I *really* don't want to know other than staying away from it, so please don't tell me).

But it sounds like anything more generally acknowledging lots of people dying very horribly without going into detail, or describing it very indirectly (like references to smoke that the reader is expected to understand from context to be about crematoriums, that kind of thing), wouldn't qualify, right?

Re: dear coal advice column 2

[(Anonymous)]

Right, that would be fine. So would, like, a vet saying he was at a camp during the liberation and mentioning a few images that lingered or people he met and saying it was horrible beyond description, or a survivor doing the same thing. Trying to write your own version of "Night" as fanfic = probably no.

(I don't really know a good place to draw a line between those though. I requested a character who was canonically in a camp as a political prisoner, and while I would love a fic that deals with that more directly than canon, I don't really know how to do it well and without crossing lines. Which is why I didn't offer him, or prompt that directly.)