Hey everyone,

After listening to some feedback from y’all, we have made some amendments to the changes we rolled out December 30, 2024. Thanks to everyone who reached out with comments, questions, and suggestions, as your input helps us make the best possible decisions for our members and the site.

First, in order to better allow readers to find stories that have the content they want, we will be reinstating the Baby/Kid Fanworks category to cover stories where these are major themes, and expanding it to include kids as well as babies. The new definition is:

Baby/Kid Fanworks: Works which prominently feature pregnancy and/or babies and/or raising children

We are not removing any of the new warnings, so please note that if you post something in this category, you will need to include all appropriate warnings as well. This may feel redundant, but after listening to concerns, we feel that this combination of a category and the warnings offers the best option for allowing people to opt-in when they want to see the content or opt-out when they don’t.

While we do not have a list of the fics that were originally tagged with the “Babyfic” category, we have applied the new Baby/Kid Fanworks tag to any fic that carried the Baby/Kid warning.

As always when we make tag changes on the back end, creators should review their works to ensure that the tags are appropriate for those works that might be affected.

Second, we have amended some of the definitions of the new warnings to use more inclusive language and to clarify some points. Please let us know if you have any questions (or additional feedback) on any of these.

• Miscarriage: contains content in which a pregnancy is terminated unintentionally, whether the pregnant person wishes to keep the baby or not.
• Baby or Infant Death: contains content in which a baby or infant dies. This includes but is not limited to stillbirths, nonviable pregnancies carried to term, infants who die of SIDS or other illnesses or natural causes, violence, magical means, or other deaths.
• Baby/Kid: contains content which prominently features established characters involved with the raising of babies or children.
• Adoption: contains content in which a baby or child is put up for adoption, a baby or child is adopted, someone deals with their own adoption, or a character (or characters) is trying to adopt a child/going through the adoption process.
• Abortion: contains extended discussion of someone purposefully terminating a pregnancy and/or the actual termination of a pregnancy. The pregnant person may or may not be the one who chooses to terminate the pregnancy.

Thank you again to everyone who has provided feedback on this topic. As always, if you have any questions (or more feedback!) please send them to elysianfieldsarchive@gmail.com or comment below.