Citations:dead dove

Noun: "(fandom slang) a disclaimer or tag for a fan fiction, particularly on Archive of Our Own, meant to signify that the fan fiction contains the content that is described as being in it"

 * 2019, Katrin Tiidenberg & Susanna Paasonen, "Littles: Affects and Aesthetics in Sexual Age-Play", Sexuality & Culture, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2019, page 385:
 * In multiple Tumblr communities as well as within fan-fiction, hashtags and labels such as “badwrong,” “dead dove do not eat,” and “I am trash” are used to mark out fantasies that are appreciated specifically for violating taboos of sexual normalcy.
 * 2021, Adri Joy, "Tor.com Publishing, First Becomes Ashes, and the pretty pastel packaging of abuse", Nerds of a Feather Flock Together: 2021 Hugo Award Voter Packet Best Fanzine, page 66:
 * No system is perfect - AO3 may have clear, non-negotiable requirements for tagging rape/non con and other “major archive warnings”, but it falls down when it comes to racism and other fandom language (like “dead dove: do not eat”, the warning for an unapologetically horrible fic) requires insider knowledge to understand.
 * 2022, Kimberly Kennedy, "Fan binding as a method of fan work preservation", Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, Volume 37 (link):
 * The "dead dove" tag warns readers that the fan fiction will contain exactly what the author stated—usually content that some readers may prefer to avoid—and not to expect otherwise. Even so, such works often encounter criticism both in and out of fandom.
 * 2022, Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 411:
 * One of the most popular tags used in potentially triggering pieces of fanfiction reads “Dead dove: do not eat,” a reference to a scene in the American sitcom Arrested Development, in which one of the characters finds a bag with this description in the fridge, and scorns himself for being surprised by its contents.
 * 2022, Jay Castello, "The YouTubers and TikTokers embracing cringe to explain everything", Polygon, 25 August 2022:
 * “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat,” for instance, is a warning that a fic might include something a reader finds distasteful, and that they shouldn’t click through just to sate their curiosity.
 * 2022, Sean Mullins, "Dating apps are the worst gacha games ever", The Webster Journal (Webster University), 21 September 2022:
 * “Dead dove, do not eat,” a fanfiction tag derived from “Arrested Development,” warns about unspeakable horrors before audiences look regardless. This summer, my “dead doves” were dating apps. I don’t know what I expected.