Hannah Armstrong
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes.
And I think that's it comes a little bit out of the space of where it was first published.
So it was published online where these sorts of things were being explored in a lot more detail.
And so some of the things we see in the first book are probably a lot more confronting and a lot more visual than you would probably see in a lot of.
like straightforward, traditionally published work.
But I think that's just a different avenue to explore these issues.
And I can see how it is really off-putting for a lot of people, but I can also, it feels very different knowing that it came out of Life Journal, if that makes sense.
And I think anyone who grew up in that fan fiction world will recognise that as well.
Why?
I think there was, there was, I suppose there was an early period in the internet where people were just sort of openly exploring these concepts and like a very like free kind of way.
I think a lot of people use it as like a way to process trauma and that sort of thing.
And I think there was probably a point around like the, definitely after 2010, probably more like 2015 where trigger warnings and content warnings and
making sure to be really rigorous in your tagging became the norm in online culture, but before that it was a lot more of just a like,
dead dove do not eat is everything.
Yeah, I know, yeah.
But, yeah, it was like, yeah, you ticked a box to say you're 18 and that was the content warnings.
Wow.
I think there is now.
I think in the original edition there wasn't one.
Maybe not.