Ramp-Up Essay: The Safer Candy Store - Discovering Kink Bingo as a Survivor

June 24, 2013, 6:00 am

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Posted by: implicated2

Content notes: Contains a very brief mention of a sexually coercive relationship between teenagers. No other standard notes apply.

When I signed up for Kink Bingo last year, I'd only been reading and writing fanfiction for about six months. The possibilities felt endless. I had so many fandoms to learn to write in, so many genres to try, so many kinks to explore. I wanted to get a bingo—no, an x-pattern—no, a blackout—okay, maybe just a bingo to start. And maybe a postage stamp? Come on, the squares for torture/interrogation, wrist/ankle restraints, guns/blades, and bloodplay were right next to each other. (So were the squares for gender play, body alteration, crossdressing, and pegging/strap-ons. It was a pretty sweet card.) “I feel like a kid in a candy store,” I told a friend I'd met in the public kink scene years earlier. “Wow,” my friend said, sounding excited for me. “You've never been a kid in a candy store before.”
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Ramp-Up Mix: Road to Nowhere - A Headspace Mix

June 25, 2013, 8:32 am

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Posted by: sabinetzin

Hello, Bingoers! I have been sent here to ramp you up with this mix. It's a mix about headspace through the progression of a certain kind of S/M scene, from those first soothing touches to hanging all over each other at the end. Headspace isn't a yes or no proposition, not a state that you only hit at the end of a scene. Headspace is an evolving thing, something that's necessary and present in every part of a scene. It's a fragile thing, something you have to cultivate, and for the aurally-inclined, music is one of the best ways to help create it.

( On to the mix proper! )

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Ramp-Up Photoessay: What's In Your Wallet? or, Toys and Their Histories

June 26, 2013, 8:17 pm

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Posted by: sabinetzin

We've seen one kind of toy already in this great photoessay, but I'm here to talk about toys made with a kinkier purpose in mind. As that essay shows, whether we're talking about kinky toys or not, toys have histories, and they develop meaning to the people who own and use them. It may not be immediately obvious what those stories are, and just because something looks like or costs more than another thing doesn't mean they hold the same value to the person who owns them.

So, this is what the little black purse in my toybag usually looks like before I suddenly remember to organize it:


(click to enlarge)

I'll talk about three kinds of toys that I have in my bag- cuffs, clamps, and collars. Also rope, but rope doesn't start with a C.

So let's unravel these, shall we?

( A note on perspective )

( Cuffs )

( Clamps )

( Collars )

( What can it mean to you? )

So I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse inside my toybag. As you can tell, toys are very personal and special to the people who use them. The bond between a person and what they use in their kink can be very, very close indeed. I hope this has given you inspiration, and I look for more fanworks about toys and what they mean in the future (hint hint).

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Kink List for Round Six!

June 27, 2013, 6:33 pm

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Posted by: thingswithwings

For today's ramp-up content, we bring you our yearly post about the changes we've made to the kink list. Herein are the whys and hows of all the changes, as well as descriptions of the nine (NINE!!!) exciting new kinks. With this many new kinks, each player will (statistically) get 2.16 new kinks on their card, which is a lovely thought. Of course, you might get none and you might get all nine, but chances are you'll get one or two at least.

( why we change the kink list )

( how we change the kink list )

( new kinks )

( renamed kinks )

( merged kinks )

( retired kinks )

( the whole kink list, in alphabetical order )

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

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Ramp-Up: The erotics of nostalgia

June 29, 2013, 2:00 pm

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Posted by: naraht

Nostalgia is an erotic aesthetic. Bittersweetness, regret, longing for what used to be, longing for what never was within living memory. Being a person out of time. Being spoken to by the voices of the past. Elegies. Pages crumbling as you read them. I become nostalgic for things that I love before I ever lose them.

There is a powerful charge in the experience of loving someone who died before you were born, longing for a world that you can never enter, finding those places (whether intellectual or physical) where the boundary between past and present becomes so thin as to make the texture of the past almost tangible. Everyone who loves the past will know the feeling, as I once described it, of "imagining and imagining that something exists, so intensely that you can almost taste it."

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Ramp-Up: Tagging For Kinks on the AO3

June 29, 2013, 9:15 pm

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Posted by: melannen

Hi! I'm Melannen, and I'm a tag wrangler on the Archive of Our Own, so I spend a lot of time thinking about tagging. But I also really like using AO3's tagging system to find kinky fanworks, so for my own selfish interests, I love to help people figure out how to tag their kinky AO3 works!

This isn't meant to be an official AO3 communication, and it isn't meant to try to convince you to post to AO3 - if you don't want hear about AO3, please skip this post! But I notice a lot of kink bingo players posting there already, and I always like helping people be more aware of how their tags work.

This essay is going to cover a few basic topics: first, I'll give you a quick overview of how AO3's tagging system works, and why it's a good idea to tag your kinks if you're posting a kinky fanwork. Next, I've got some advice on how kink-related tags in particular work. Finally, there are some notes about AO3 tags that are specific to works that are reposted from kink_bingo.

( Why tag for kinks? )

( The Basic Basics of AO3 Tags )

( Useful Links If You Want To Know More About AO3 Tagging )

But enough of tagging in general! What about tagging for kinks, we cry!

( How To Tag For Kinks )

( Tags for kink_bingo works posted on the AO3 )

( The Big List of Kink_Bingo Tags )

And finally! Somebody suggested that I should write about ( Tagging as a kink )

So I could go on - I can go on about tags and kinks and kinky tags and tag-related kinks forever - but I think that may be enough! I hope at least a few of you learned at least a few things from this post, and I encourage you to go forth and tag! (And you can always go back and update tags on your old works, too.)

We’d also love to talk about how AO3 handles kinky tags and kink_bingo works. If you have any questions, or suggestions, or complaints, there are tag wranglers who will be happy to answer comments in this post and deal with issues; you are also, of course, welcome to use any of the methods linked above. I’d especially love to hear from you if you’d like any changes to the way the tags for kink_bingo squares or any related concepts work; I’m still working on cleaning them up, so now is a great chance to ask for a change.

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Rules Post Round Six

June 30, 2013, 3:36 pm

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Posted by: kink_bingo_mods

YAY IT'S THE RULES POST! This is the one area of Kink Bingo where we definitely encourage thoughtful obedience over insouciant disobedience, so listen up.

Seriously: please read the rules. It makes us mods so happy when people do! I know it looks like a lot, but the idea here is to cover all of the most frequently asked questions and issues. If a rule doesn't apply to you, then don't worry about reading it. If you have any questions about how the game is played, please feel free to ask them here, though do bear in mind that the Achievements post, Accessibility post, and How to Make Bingos and Extras post may answer your questions as well. Achievements and Accessibility posts forthcoming.

This year, there are major changes to rule 11 (prizes no longer given out for underrepresented identities achievements), rule 12 (you don't commit to anything by taking a card), and rule 18 (expanded to include a note about WIPs and remix). Everything else is basically the same, except for some updated wording here and there.

If you are new to Kink Bingo, it may help to go and read the How To Play Kink Bingo: The Short Version first.

The Rules Are:

( 1) Goal of the Game )

( 2) Extras )

( 3) Achivements )

( 4) Ways to Answer a Prompt )

( 5) Filling the Centre Wildcard Square )

( 6) Erotic Focus: What Counts as Answering a Prompt )

( 7) Minimum Sizes for Fanworks )

( 8) Asking for New Cards After You've Completed Your First Bingo )

( 9) Reusing Squares on Your Card )

( 10) Schedule )

( 11) Prizes )

( 12) What You're Committing To By Taking a Card )

( 13) Signing Up as a Team )

( 14) What's Allowed )

( 15) What's Not Allowed )

( 16) If Your Fanwork Is Not in English )

( 17) Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, Safety, and Consent )

( 18) Cross-Posting Fanworks, WIPs, and Remix )

( 19) Where and When to Post )

( 20) Policy on Abusive/Denigrating Language )

( 21) What to Do about Cheating, Conflicts, or Concerns )

( 22) The Most Important One )

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Round Seven in 2015

June 30, 2013, 3:39 pm

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Posted by: kink_bingo_mods

( The short version of this announcement is: after this round, we're taking some time off. )

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round six icons

June 30, 2013, 7:47 pm

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Posted by: kink_bingo_mods

Below the cut are the ninety icons for round six, all of which will be used as the center (wildcard) squares on card images. You're welcome to take any of these to use as icons / blanks / whatever.

( Kinks in the icons include (text list of kinks) )

For more details about the icons, see the text descriptions below.

If you opt out of a kink we will try to make sure that you don't get an icon that depicts that kink; for more information see the accessibility policy.

Icons made by eruthros.

( The official round six icons )

( Text descriptions of icons )

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Asexual-Friendlier Kink Lists

June 30, 2013, 7:55 pm

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Posted by: thingswithwings

Since we've added new kinks this year, we have altered the asexual-friendlier kink lists slightly to take them into account. The lists are one-size-should-fit-some-people lists; they won't fit everyone or every kind of asexuality perfectly, but we hope that they'll help make it a little easier for those who are only interested in doing asexual-friendly styles of kink. There are two lists: a list of kinks that don't require orgasms or sexual penetration (as opposed to bodily penetration in kinks like enemas, piercings/needleplay, etc), and a list of kinks that can more easily be done solo. When the card signup post goes up, you can request any of three types of card: 1) the solo-kink only card 2) the no orgasms/no sexual penetration card, or 3) the solo-kink only, no orgasms, no sexual penetration card (which is simply a combination of the first two). Anyone can opt into those card types for any reason.

For some of the kinks, the decision to take them off a list or keep them on a list was a tough one; quite often we ran up against kinks, for example, that can be done solo, but for which there are very few or limited options for solo kink – in those cases, we often took the kinks off the list. So you may find yourself saying, "but I can think of a cool way to do obedience as solo kink!" or "but fisting/stretching isn't necessarily sexual penetration"– and that's undoubtedly true, but since the overall thrust of those kinks are interpersonal dynamics/sexual penetration, we took them off.

The kinks removed from each list are bolded in the lists below.

( solo-kink only list )

( no orgasms/no sexual penetration list )

We have also categorized the wildcard square image icons so that icons depicting sexual penetration/orgasms or involving two or more people are removed from the randomizers for their respective cards.

( more details on icon categorization )

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Accessibility Policy for Round Six

June 30, 2013, 8:08 pm

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Posted by: thingswithwings

We mean "accessibility" pretty broadly; this post will focus on providing different means of access to the comm for users who might otherwise feel less welcome.

Throughout the post, we'll use "we" to refer to the kink_bingo mods, thingswithwings and eruthros. If you have a question or want to talk about these policies or anything else about kink bingo, please feel free to pm or email one or both of us or to comment here.

1. ( card formatting )

2. ( sexual kinks and asexual characters )

3. ( opting out of a kink )

4. ( personalizing your card )

5. ( content notes )

6. ( achievement banners )

7. ( some helpful posts )

If you have other accessibility concerns, we would appreciate your input! Feel free to comment (anonymous commenting is always on), email, or pm a mod. We'll do our best to accommodate your needs.

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Achievements Post for Round Six

June 30, 2013, 10:45 pm

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Posted by: kink_bingo_mods

If you just want to do the basic Kink Bingo game, you don't have to worry about this post at all – achievements are entirely optional, just a way to give people something additional to challenge themselves with if they want. Kink Bingo Achievements are modeled on video game achievements – something extra to unlock.

Basically, the achievements are a bunch of different goals – some big, some little, some focused on type of bingo, some focused on type of kink, some focused on competition, some non-competitive, etc. – that people can set out to accomplish. Different achievements will be different levels of difficulty for different players – a podficcer might find it easy to make a Text-Free Bingo, whereas a person who can't write a short fic to save their lives might hit the Size Matters achievement by accident. At the same time, if you usually make fanworks involving more than one person, the Solo-Kink achievement might be a fun stretch for you, and if you're tired of the same old kinks, the Nine New Kinks achievement could be your favourite. It's our hope that there's something here for everyone! When you get an achievement, we'll give you a fancy banner to celebrate your victory.

( Changes to the Achievements Since Last Year )

( List of Possible Kink Bingo Achievements )

( How Achievements Work )

( Tagging Your Post With Your Achievements )

( Some Achievements Also Come With Prizes )

( How Achievements Work During Amnesty )

( More Information on 'Underrepresented Identities in Kink' Achievements (with links to resources) )

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This is Not the Card Signup Post

July 1, 2013, 9:28 am

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Posted by: thingswithwings

Kink Bingoers! It's great that you're so excited, but I'm afraid we don't have the party ready for you quite yet - we're looking at several hours before we'll have the Card Signup Post up. So there's no need to start obsessively refreshing the comm until at LEAST 4pm EST. <3 <3 <3

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Card Sign-Up Post Round Six

July 1, 2013, 2:59 pm

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Posted by: kink_bingo_mods

Comment here for your own Kink Bingo card! Signups are open to absolutely everybody, even if you defaulted in the last round.

Signups will be open until October 31st, 2013.

It's easier for us if you sign up with the same username you plan to use to post - so with your fiction or art journal if you have one, or your dreamwidth journal if you're planning to make one.

( To find out more or ask questions )

( If you don't have a dreamwidth account )

( How you'll get your card )

( Accessibility )

Display note: The html tables will display squashed in the comments here, because of anti-spam comment rules, but will display as square tables in posts; here's an example of what they'll look like in posts.

Some people who get html emails at gmail will get html errors copy-pasting from the text box in their email (because gmail "helpfully" adds extra html within the text boxes). If that happens to you, please try copying from the original comment on dreamwidth; if it still doesn't work, please let us know.

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Kink Wiki Linkify JavaScript app, version 2013

July 1, 2013, 8:42 pm

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Posted by: chagrined

Hello comm! I've updated the little JavaScript app to linkify one's KB card for the current round, if you'd like to use it. Like last year (or for those unfamiliar), this takes the image code for your card and generates an image map and table linking each square to either the KB wiki or the posting tags here on the comm.

( example under the cut of what this looks like )

Link to app:Kink Bingo 2013 Kink Wiki Linkify!

( notes on using the script )

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BINGO: first simultaneous double line bingo, text-free bingo

July 2, 2013, 11:58 pm

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Posted by: theleaveswant

by: theleaveswant
fandoms: No fandom, The Killer Wore Leather
kinks: breathplay + foot fetish/shoe fetish, spaces scenes and settings + power exchange, authority figures + vanilla kink, hypnosis/mind control + class fantasies, objectification kink + writing on the body

All pieces are pencil drawings and all links go to cuts within the same post.

Art: Frye Boots (no fandom, breathplay + foot fetish/shoe fetish)
summary/preview: a person lying on the ground while another person wearing engineer boots presses a foot into their chest
content notes: no standard content notes apply

Art: Registration (The Killer Wore Leather, [skip]Slave Bitsy, Tom, the Boys Jack, assorted other attendees at Mr. and Ms. Global Leather and Bootblack 2014, spaces scenes and settings + power exchange)
summary/preview: a crowd scene near the registration table for next year's Mr. and Ms. Global Leather and Bootblack contest weekend
content notes: no standard content notes apply

Art: PSA (no fandom, authority figures + vanilla kink)
summary/preview: parody of a 1950s coffee advertisement in which a woman receives an over-the-knee spanking from a man
content notes: no standard content notes apply

Art: Watch (no fandom, hypnosis/mind control + class fantasies [+ bonus gender play & historical-ness])
summary/preview: a wordless mini-comic showing a Victorian hypnotherapy session
content notes: no standard content notes apply

Art: Milk, Tea, and Oranges (no fandom, objectification kink + writing on the body)
summary/preview: behold the human grocery list
content notes: no standard content notes apply

Mods, may I trouble you for a fandom tag for The Killer Wore Leather?

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BINGO: 1st line card 1 diagonal, ACH: bingo in five fandoms

July 3, 2013, 7:53 pm

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Posted by: cowgirl65

by: cowgirl65
fandoms: vintage art, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, voyagers!, brother cadfael, star trek: TOS
kinks: shaving/depilation, consent play, historical roleplay (wildcard), worship, ageplay

card 1 here


picspam: Barbasol (vintage art, shaving/depilation)
summary/preview: 1940s ads for Barbasol (no brush, no foam and helps you get the girls) G
content notes: no standard content notes apply

photostory/essay: Deeper Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time (the lion the witch and the wardrobe, Aslan, White Witch, Lucy, Susan, consent play {+negotiation}) PG
content notes: no standard content notes apply

picspam: Voyagers! (voyagers!, Phineas Bogg, Jeffrey Jones, historical roleplay {wildcard})
summary/preview: Join Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) and Jeffrey Jones (Meeno Peluce) as they travel through time and make sure history goes the way it should. G
content notes: no standard content notes apply

picspam: Churches of Brother Cadfael (Brother Cadfael, worship)
summary/preview: photographs of churches from the novels G
content notes: no standard content notes apply

picspam: The Deadly Years (Star Trek: TOS, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty)
summary/preview: captures from the episode G
content notes: noncon/dubcon, no other standard content notes apply


mods, may I have a tag for fandom: Voyagers!. I also noticed two tags for Brother Cadfael, one under 'brother cadfael' and one for just 'cadfael'. thanks

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BINGO: 1st line card 2, ACH: bingo in 3-D, text-free bingo

July 5, 2013, 2:24 pm

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Posted by: cowgirl65

by: cowgirl65
fandoms: no fandoms
kinks: bodies and body parts, spanking/paddling, tentacles (wildcard), possession/marking, bloodplay


card 2 here


craft: Heart (no fandom, bodies and body parts)
content notes: no standard content notes apply

craft: Pink Buttocks (no fandom, spanking/paddling)
content notes: no standard content notes apply

craft: Octopus (no fandom, tentacles {wildcard})
content notes: no standard content notes apply

craft: crochet and bead wedding ring (no fandom, possession/marking)
content notes: no standard content notes apply

craft: Blood (no fandom, bloodplay)
content notes: no standard content notes apply

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BINGO: Single line bingo

July 9, 2013, 3:11 am

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by: metallikirk 
fandoms: Rammstein RPF, Marvel Cinematic Universe RPF, Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thor), Priest (2011)
kinks: begging, rough body play, bondage, held down, wild card (bloodplay)


FIC: Der Junger Hund (Rammstein RPF, Till Lindemann/Richard Z. Kruspe, Begging)
summary/preview: Richard likes it when Till begs in puppy-like fashion
content notes: No standard content notes apply

FIC: Battle Of A Different Kind (Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor/Loki, rough body play)
summary/preview: Thor and Loki spar before indulging in a battle of a different kind
content notes: Given pairing, warnings for (pseudo-) incest. No other standard content notes apply.

FIC: Wir halten uns den Arm (We hold each other by the arm) (Rammstein RPF, Richard Z. Kruspe/Paul Landers, Bondage)
summary/preview: Set during the filming of the “Haifisch” video. Paul and Richard spend some quality time together.
content notes: No standard content notes apply

FIC: In the Heat of the Night (Marvel Cinematic Universe RPF, Tom Hiddleston/Chris Hemsworth, held down)
summary/preview: Tom likes it when Chris displays his greater strength in bed.
content notes: No standard content notes apply

FIC: No Longer the Innocent (Priest (2011), Black Hat/Lucy, wild card (bloodplay)
summary/preview: Black Hat takes advantage of Lucy.
content notes: Could be viewed as dub-con (with overtones of rape), given the nature of vampirism in this universe. No other standard content notes apply

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BINGO: 1st line card 3

July 9, 2013, 1:59 pm

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Posted by: cowgirl65

by: cowgirl65
fandoms: Driving Miss Daisy, Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey, Song of the South, Gosford Park, The Help, Jeeves and Wooster, Sabrina, Remains of the Day, Gone With the Wind, The Big Valley
kinks: service, ritual, caged/confined, scars/scarification, torture/interrogation

card 3 here

rec set: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Ghandi (Driving Miss Daisy, Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey, Song of the South, Gosford Park, The Help, Jeeves and Wooster, Sabrina, Remains of the Day, Gone With the Wind, service)
summary/preview: Ten recs for movies and television shows that feature service.
content notes: no standard content notes apply

vid: Standing Stones (no fandom, ritual)
summary/preview: A vid feat. photographs of some of my favourite standing stones set to the Mass For The Feast Of St. Thomas Of Canterbury - 1. Introit, "Gaudeamus Omnes" sung by the Canterbury Cathedral Lay Clerks G
content notes: no standard content notes apply

picspam: The Iron Box (The Big Valley, Nick, Heath, Jarrod, caged/confined)
summary/preview: captures from the second season episode
content notes: noncon/dubcon, no other standard content notes apply

manip: Jarrod’s brand (The Big Valley, Jarrod Barkley, Dave Barrett, scars/scarification)
summary/preview: a manip inspired by my story ‘Forever and Always’ NC-17
content notes: no standard content notes apply

rec set: ‘The Big Valley’ fanfic feat. toruture (The Big Valley, torture/interrogation)
summary/preview: fics mostly revolve around Jarrod, but all the Barkley brothers are involved. All ratings
content notes: all are noncon/dubcon, some have thoughts of suicide which is noted by the individual rec, no other standard content notes apply


mods, may I have tags for fandom: driving miss daisy, fandom: gosford park, fandom: gone with the wind, fandom: the help, fandom: remains of the day, fandom: Sabrina, fandom: song of the south and fandom: upstairs downstairs?

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