Gee, what a good idea...
Jul. 14th, 2009 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootSo, the issue having come up in my circle, I was gearing up to make a trigger map of Bujold's Vorkosigan books and solicit thoughts from my reading list.
And then I made the mistake of mentioning this to my spouse-the-librarian.
Who promptly said that it should be a Bigger! project, encompassing, really, all of literature, and wouldn't a user editable database, possibly using the Library Thing api as a base for this, be good, gee what a good idea for a sabbatical project!
So, real soon now, I will be asking my reading list to contribute trigger categories to seed this thing with, since, for maximum coverage, it should be heavily front loaded and the free-form tagging used to supplement that.
But for now, I do want to do up Bujold. So. Here are the ones that leap to mind for me.
Shards of Honor: Rape (does not occur onscreen, but it's a close call and the build up is explicit)
POW abuse (especially women)
The Warrior's Apprentice: Torture (brief passage, but sharp)
The Vor Game: Rape (not on screen, but explicitly referred to)
"The Borders of Infinity": Incarceration (the setting of the story is a fairly intense pow prison)
Mirror Dance: Eating disorders (almost half the book)
Torture (crosses with the eating disorders)
Rape (off screen and past, but explicitly spoken of)
MPD (not trigger material, I don't think, but something I'd surely want the vulnerable to be prepared for)
Memory: Suicidal depression (brief but intense)
Komarr: Domestic abuse (first half of the book)
A Civil Campaign: Child Custody issues (an issue throughout the book)
What else?
And then I made the mistake of mentioning this to my spouse-the-librarian.
Who promptly said that it should be a Bigger! project, encompassing, really, all of literature, and wouldn't a user editable database, possibly using the Library Thing api as a base for this, be good, gee what a good idea for a sabbatical project!
So, real soon now, I will be asking my reading list to contribute trigger categories to seed this thing with, since, for maximum coverage, it should be heavily front loaded and the free-form tagging used to supplement that.
But for now, I do want to do up Bujold. So. Here are the ones that leap to mind for me.
Shards of Honor: Rape (does not occur onscreen, but it's a close call and the build up is explicit)
POW abuse (especially women)
The Warrior's Apprentice: Torture (brief passage, but sharp)
The Vor Game: Rape (not on screen, but explicitly referred to)
"The Borders of Infinity": Incarceration (the setting of the story is a fairly intense pow prison)
Mirror Dance: Eating disorders (almost half the book)
Torture (crosses with the eating disorders)
Rape (off screen and past, but explicitly spoken of)
MPD (not trigger material, I don't think, but something I'd surely want the vulnerable to be prepared for)
Memory: Suicidal depression (brief but intense)
Komarr: Domestic abuse (first half of the book)
A Civil Campaign: Child Custody issues (an issue throughout the book)
What else?
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Date: 2009-07-16 05:27 am (UTC)Oh, I agree! *shudders* I found that whole thing so intense I could barely lift my eyes from the page, I was so desperate for her to find a way out, and I'm pretty trigger-free.