Random Pit of Voles bitchery

[petronia]

I am not good at this classification system thing; not good at all. I mean, what do you call something like 'Hit Single', exactly? Drama? Angst? Romance? Humour? (I think it's funny, but I'm the only one.) Pick two, any two - is 'Velocity Over Time' more dramatic than angsty? More suspenseful than action-filled? Why do they not have a category for non-romantic s3xx0ring? God only knows there must be enough of it on-site. The summaries are even worse. I'm dreading having to write one for 'Open/Close': I'm going to have enough trouble explaining that one to people who know me.

I also feel like a liar. No way is VoT a mere R.

Comments

VoT

[sdavis.livejournal.com]

re: VoT

Oh, that's not lying

Re: VoT

[sdavis.livejournal.com]

Damn the tab key to hell.

All you're doing, with VoT, is making the system work for you. I wouldn't rate VoT as an NC-17. It's prominently sexual, but not excessively so - the sex is brief, marked by a graceful economy of descriptors. It pushes the envelope, but it remains within the boundaries of good faith authorial ratings.

Re: VoT

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad you think so. (I think. I've certainly been passing it off as an NC-17 all this time...) Actually I uploaded the fic and wrote the above entry before my sinus-clogged brain registered that what was happening was that ff.net was banning NC-17s, and not just that their rating system was messed up, or I would've abstained. Doesn't kill me to keep only my PG fics there; Voles' loss, not mine.

They're really taking the spirit and stuffing out of the fanfiction concept, though. Dodginess and absence of legality are 99% of the fun; if I wanted to court public opinion at large I'd write a real book, or something.

Re: VoT

[sdavis.livejournal.com]

I'd read so many rants about ffnet yesterday, that it didn't occur to me that someone might be talking about something else. ^^;

I didn't trust ffnet's philosophy at the start; it was too open to work, like Napster's. Someone mad a crack that, next thing we see, ffnet will only accept original, in-progress children's books. I'm starting to wonder...