A fanfic tag that warns you to take the other tags seriously. For example, if one tag says 'non-con', expect non-con. Don'
t think, 'ah, it's probably just
dub-con.' If the tags say 'organ harvesting', expect literal organ harvesting. Don'
t take it as a joke or exaggeration. You were warned.
Very commonly misunderstood as a general warning of bad things to come, because it's so often used beside more serious tags, when really it's a specific warning not to take the other tags lightly.
(Originally comes from the TV show Arrested Development, referencing a scene in which the character
Michael Bluth finds a bag in the
fridge that says DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT. He opens the bag anyway, before wincing, and saying, '
well, I don'
t know what I expected..')
