I have this really bad habit of seeing something I relate to and just blathering on and on about adventures or bad habits or diabolical deeds or traumas involving my characters and oops, sometimes I forget that these people weren't there when it was written and not everyone has the same sense of humor.
Not that I find abuse or trauma funny. I don't. Some of my characters are like....adult cartoons, I guess? So dangerous situations end up with a potential for humor.
Ex: There's a parenting meme up on Bakerstreet and someone mentioned haha my characters aren't parent material but it's fun to think about and I was like BOY DO I HAVE STORIES
So I started talking about this one character I have who I experimented with as a parent and she's just the worst. She's a psychopath. Selfish. Violent. Actual cartoon supervillain. Not a great role model.
That whole side story was so fun that I forgot all about how I was hijacking someone else's post and bringing up things that, in the real world, would not fly. (neglectful more than abusive)
The humour was in how people ill equipped to deal with a child were suddenly forced to and how the child ended up somehow more capable than either of them while still being a child who pours glitter into moms next death machine
But yeah. I guess I'm still too used to RPing with the person who played the partner (because there's no way she could actually keep a child alive or safe by herself) who was providing half of those situations and humor and so content warnings were never needed. It was all via chat anyway, so no sensitive mutual friends were going to stumble on it.
I'm not used to content warnings. I am used to taking with people as if it's one on one. Result: hijack and transform into something tremendously inappropriate.
Almost none of my characters have a perfectly clean and family friendly history, but I'm so used to them that I forget no one knows who these people are.
To be fair, I think its more on the rare side that characters have pleasant backgrounds, so you shouldn't feel on the spot about it. It's a simple, honest mistake, and it's not limited to characters. We can't know everything about everyone or what might set a person off, and best we can do is learn and try to remember for next time.
Hi, I'm Drake and I'm processing emotional abuse with unhealthy habits. I'm Alexis and I take my child with on bank jobs. Good morning. I'm Darius and I can't take a pleasant afternoon walk without looking for a tripwire.
because that is my problemI'm Alexis and I take my child with on bank jobs.
Good morning. I'm Darius and I can't take a pleasant afternoon walk without looking for a tripwire.
Hi. I'm Miriam and I like the beach, horror movies, and my plants.