This is true but what precisely about the canon you choose to write matters, and I think "well Hannibal has lots of gore so it's totally fine to write a fill that's full of gore. if they don't like it, they've learned about DNWs" is such faulty reasoning that I really can't see it being in good faith. Most people are not watching Hannibal exclusively or even mostly for the gore, and the show itself isn't even exclusively or mostly gore. "I'm going to write a fic that fits the tone of the show even if that's not the tone of the flower crown fanon", fine! Follow your bliss. But there's a limit to what most people expect to see in fanfic and yeah, with a blank signup I would expect a good faith writer to not commit hardcore to a common trigger, that is also a less popular theme/trope in fic, that the show itself features but does not devote a majority of its runtime to. Like, come on. This is "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining" territory.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
This is true but what precisely about the canon you choose to write matters, and I think "well Hannibal has lots of gore so it's totally fine to write a fill that's full of gore. if they don't like it, they've learned about DNWs" is such faulty reasoning that I really can't see it being in good faith. Most people are not watching Hannibal exclusively or even mostly for the gore, and the show itself isn't even exclusively or mostly gore. "I'm going to write a fic that fits the tone of the show even if that's not the tone of the flower crown fanon", fine! Follow your bliss. But there's a limit to what most people expect to see in fanfic and yeah, with a blank signup I would expect a good faith writer to not commit hardcore to a common trigger, that is also a less popular theme/trope in fic, that the show itself features but does not devote a majority of its runtime to. Like, come on. This is "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining" territory.