Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 18 - Lunar Eclipse
Rating: NC-17
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| 2009-06-30 13:07 |
| On Warnings & Fanfic Ratings |
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Given the recent kerfuffle about warnings for fanfics, I hereby explicitly state my own policy:
Fanfic rating policy: I rate my fanfics using the MPAA rating system (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17). You'll find the rating stated in my fanfic guide post, in my announcement posts to communities, and at the very top of the story itself. The rating is followed by a listing of the reason for the rating.
Multi-chapter stories are rated as a whole in the same manner at the very beginning of the fic. If the content of a later chapter exceeds the scope of the initial rating, an additional warning is given at the top of the chapter.
I use AdultFanfiction.net's extensive list of story codes as a first reference for content to list. However, I expect potential readers to inform themselves about the canon content of the respective fandom. Please note that I am German and more critical about violence than sex. However, I try to pay respect to the different sensibilities esp. in the US by usually using the higher rating when I believe it might differ.
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: Interregnum 6 (between the chapters 17 and 18)
Rating: NC-17 (story in total)
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About the future of this journal: moving my writing activities to Dreamwidth
Why Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth, which I tested thoroughly while it was still in closed beta, offers a lot of awesome features that make cross-posting, commenting, foreign-commenting and generally maintaining my writing journal a lot more easier than the other services I'm using (IJ, JF, LJ). For example:
- DW allows crossposting to other sites - such as IJ and JF - and changes made to the DW-post will automatically applied also to the cross-posts. This makes corrections in posted chapters a lot more easier for me than now. In addition, I can set the cross-posted entries to redirect commenting to DW rather than having the commentaries fragmented between the different services.
- DW allows to import your journals from different sites into your DW journal including comments; thus I now have all the nice comments from my LJ times *plus* the comments made on IJ back in one journal (and feel finally complete again).
- DW's limits for entry and comment word counts are a lot more generous than on the other blogging sites (300.000 characters for entries and 16.000 for comments [for comparison: LJ 65.000 & 4.300!]).
- DW's split the friending procedure into "subscribing" and "granting access". Subscribing allows you to keep track of journals on your reading list, but you don't have to reveal your private posts to the subscribers, that's limited to those whom you granted access and those can be filtered further. Makes following your preferred writing a lot more easier. :)
- DW allows to refer to people on other blogging services correctly, without duplicating their user name as belonging to their service.
- You can log into DW with your LJ- or IJ-identity (as Open-ID) and if you validate your email address, then you have virtually all the features of a free account (minus posting entries of course): you can keep a reading list, receive notifications of replies to your comments; you can even upload up to six icons.
- and much more.
In 2008, I moved my writing activities away from LiveJournal when I couldn't bear the uncertainty and annoyance there any more and I found a new, cozy home here at Insane (and let's face it: "insane" is a nice adjective for a physicist in popular culture *g*). I was happy when quite a few of my readers followed me along and got accounts over here as well. Which is the reason that I feel slightly guilty about moving yet again. Therefore ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) solo and I together offer seven invite codes for settling into DW to our readers. I will keep cross-posting to IJ. I will keep watching my friends list here and I am entirely happy to have IJ as reliable backup archive for my blog entries. But I will set comments to take place on DW from now on and I hope people will bear with my wish for comfort and visit me there as well. Comments to this post are still possible. Growl at me if you feel to do so. (But I make no guarantees about how my rather possessive ficus benjamini might behave about it.) Edit: Invite code count: 1
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| 2009-04-20 12:06 |
| rating of multi-chapter fanfics |
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In lieu of the increasingly available option to set "access controls" for fics not suitable for all audiences, I wonder how you rate multi-chapter fics.
I know that when people click on a fic rated NC-17 and find no content they consider "for mature audience", they tend to be annoyed (or even angry) about the false rating - often independent of whether or not they liked the fic in question - but what is considered mature depends a lot on the cultural background. For example: the US rates a lot more restrictive on sex and drugs than on (bloody) violence, whereas in Germany it's exactly the other way round. How do you rate your fics in that regard?
And what to do about multi-chapter fics? Not all chapters contain NC-17 material, some are just R or even PG, but such a chapter is merely a part of the whole story, which won't work without the mature parts. Do you rate chapters be rated strictly by what's in them - thus granting younger readers access to story parts, all the while knowing that they can't read the whole thing - or do you rate the story as a whole like I do?
How do you do it? :)
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Someday, I will compile a "production outtakes"-file for 36° and Family Matters and collect all these snippets!
Until then, have fun with 36°'s "Dennis the Menace", in which Subaru reads Seishiro's analysis of the upcoming end of the world, the new millennium, and Baby Jesus. [Warning: strongly religious people may find some of Seishiro's thoughts (like most of X, likely) disturbing]
( 36° outtake: Dennis the Menace )
This is one of the scenes I was really sad about not finding a place in the fic for it. :)
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 17 - Solar Eclipse
Rating: NC-17
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Sometimes when writing a fic you have a scene for a late chapter, written almost at the beginning. You grew fond of that scene, played with it, endorse, giggled, whatever about it. And when you finally come to the chapter it is intended for, you realize that the minuscule changes from the original plan accumulated over the last 16+5 chapters and the mood no longer fits. Sometimes, you can salvage the scene, sometimes not. Sadly, "Hotaru's caterpillars" are a case of the latter. It was deleted this morning. At least the rest reads better now.
( beware 410 unedited, unpolished words )
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| 2008-12-06 18:19 |
| X fanfic: Under Construction (36° inspired) |
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Fandom: X (influenced by 36° but not a side-fic)
Title: Under Construction
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Imonoyama Nokoru / Kasumi Karen
Warnings: 559 words of melancholy & inconvenient truths
Comment: my entry into the x2009 fic-challenge of 2008! See this post from the fabulous ruthk for a complete set of summaries and links to all the fics of the challenge!
Summary: Survivors who had learned not to mind that each called somebody else's name in orgasm.
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 16 - SumeraMori 2
Rating: NC-17
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I'm thinking about whether or not I continue the Decagram past FM. While I have quite some plot I'd like to tell, I'm not sure it would still be a fanfic.
36° was about their connection & Seishiro's past as Sakurazukamori.
Family Matters is about how they continue & the past of their clans.
Additional plots would be (in no particular order): - Yue's story
- Setsuka's story
- Seishiro's life around the time of making the bet, between the making of the bet and its execution, until the beginning of X
- what happened with Subaru's parents
- and the continuation of Family Matters would tell how all that affects their present existence.
But I'm pretty far from the canon already and the distance would increase necessarily with the next part. So far, 36° & FM are seen rather positively, but I wonder if I don't "overuse my stay" if I stray that far from the canon into original territory. What do you think?
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| 2008-06-23 15:21 |
| Eight things that put me off a fanfic... |
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This list is incomplete and partially bordering on a rant, though it wasn't intended as one when I started it.
( Eight things that put me off a fanfic )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 15 - Sun Flare
Rating: NC-17
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: Interregnum 5 (between the chapters 14 and 15)
Rating: NC-17
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With chapter 15 (after the upcoming Interregnum 5) Family Matters is going into the final hot phase, collecting and -hopefully- tieing all the lose story threats and building starting platforms for sequels and sidefics. I'm admittedly curious what my readers think about the cast of original characters Family Matters acquired so far. Please let me know. :)
( Family Matters Poll 3: OCs )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 14 - Under the weather
Rating: NC-17
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 13 - SumeraMori 1
Rating: NC-17
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Family Matters is going into its final quarter (or so) now and I have to make up my mind about some things, which may or may not become important as tie-ins for future stories (or an elaborate expanding of this one).
Therefore I'm very interested what my readers think about the relationship between Subaru and Kamui canonically and/or in Family Matters so far.
Please note that I'm not asking about what you want it to be (as in "gimmeeee hotttt!! buttseks with Ka toppings!!!!11!" (or vice versa ;-) )).
( on to the poll )
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| 2007-10-26 20:35 |
| 36° in Russian! |
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A while ago I was asked whether or not it's fine with me to translate 36° (and later Family Matters) into Russian. (It is.)
Today, Lazurit (the translator) mailed me the first two links:
36° Introduction (Russian) and 36° chapter 1 (Russian).
I hope that her Russian speaking readers enjoy her effort as much as the English speaking readers do. :)
By the way, it's really strange to see your own fiction in a language you can't read (and the babelfish results are sure funny). :)
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