“Dead Dove” (DD), a shortened version of “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” is a tag used by fanfiction authors to warn readers about dark/problematic themes within a given fanwork. In addition to other tags attached to the fanfiction, the DD tag reminds readers that what they see in a fic’s tags is what they can expect to find in the fic itself. In this article, we’ll take a deeper dive into where this term came from and how to use it properly in your own fanworks, along with an alternate meaning that’s developed for it.
What does Dead Dove: Do Not Eat mean?
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat is a tag used to categorize fanfiction with dark themes on platforms like Archive Of Our Own (AO3). This tag warns potential readers that the fictional work contains problematic themes, and to mind the tags before actually reading the fic.