30 days of fanfic meme, day 14
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pensnestI finished a plate yesterday that the Pots of Art owner asked me to do - featuring Darth Vader and a Dalek. Interesting. He wants to lure more males into the shop. Also finally got back to the gym, and felt full of beans and ready to work - result being my upper arms are complaining now.
Day 14: Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
Actually, ratings rather irritate me. I'm so used to the popslash habit of not presenting ratings, warnings, lists of this and that, etc, before giving the story, and I don't rate my stories on my own website or on AO3. I'm an adult, and I expect my readers to be adults, and if there is explicit sex in the story, I expect my readers to be able to cope without having a fit of the vapours. I dare say if I wrote extreme kink I might warn, but I really don't. I spose I may be missing out on people who are looking for the kind of thing I write, but that's inevitable whatever I do.
I have, of course, posted to various places that require some kind of classification. I generally go with either PG (because even the sex-free stories probably have some kind of innuendo) or R (because nothing I write is violent enough to be NC-17). I really don't mind whether the story ends up gen or filled with explicit sex (well, as explicit as I get, anyway). And I probably have my own idiosyncratic interpretation of 'ratings' anyway. Who knows what they mean.
Day 14: Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
Actually, ratings rather irritate me. I'm so used to the popslash habit of not presenting ratings, warnings, lists of this and that, etc, before giving the story, and I don't rate my stories on my own website or on AO3. I'm an adult, and I expect my readers to be adults, and if there is explicit sex in the story, I expect my readers to be able to cope without having a fit of the vapours. I dare say if I wrote extreme kink I might warn, but I really don't. I spose I may be missing out on people who are looking for the kind of thing I write, but that's inevitable whatever I do.
I have, of course, posted to various places that require some kind of classification. I generally go with either PG (because even the sex-free stories probably have some kind of innuendo) or R (because nothing I write is violent enough to be NC-17). I really don't mind whether the story ends up gen or filled with explicit sex (well, as explicit as I get, anyway). And I probably have my own idiosyncratic interpretation of 'ratings' anyway. Who knows what they mean.
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Date: 2011-07-09 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-14 11:29 pm (UTC)The only thing I want to know ahead of time is if it's slash. Other than that, I'm there for the writing. Either it's good or it's not.
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Date: 2011-07-14 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-14 11:43 pm (UTC)There are some Popslash challenges that I've revamped (because the NF archive is 99.9% het fiction, though there are a couple of slash writers) and done on the archive. They have been great to get people writing, especially when the fandom is experiencing such a dry spell.