Mar 24, 2014 22:14
Here is day seven.
Today's doll is a
steampunk doll.
TITLE:
The Video CameraPERPETRATOR:
WhereTheBerriesBloomSUE-O-METER:
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sue - pansy parkinson,
rating - toxic,
sue - parvati patil,
sue - luna lovegood,
sue - fleur delacour,
sue - ginny weasley,
sue - lavender brown,
sue - minerva mcgonagal,
sue - cho chang,
sue - padma parvati,
sue - hermione granger
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Of course... some of the people also argue that what is M or MA is subjective as well. How hard is it to tell if the descriptions people used are detailed descriptions, aka where penetration and/or the sexual organs are described? While there are sixteen and eighteen year old kids out there mature enough to perhaps read such stuff, not all are and the sixteen and up rating is supposed to allow kids who are mature for fourteen and fifteen to be able to read said stuff if their parents want them too.Some parents don't want their kids who are sixteen and up but not yet adults reading that stuff either. And yet these people try and blame the parents for not monitoring what their kids read... except the parents are.
As I said... entitlement.
Also... they argue that it is "art" but the MA writers and even PWP writers who actually think of their work as an art spend more time working on their stories and don't stick to the bare mechanics. These are the ones most likely to also move to an appropriate site.
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This is why it's so infuriating that people abuse it when there are sites like AO3, whose express purpose is that they don't place any restrictions on what can be posted provided it's tagged and warned for correctly, and they specifically have a legal team that advocates for people to be allowed to post fanworks of any nature. If you want to write smut, it's in your best interests to post it on AO3! Same for RPF, because if you get into any trouble for it (unlikely though it may be) the site will support you, whereas FFN would throw you under the bus. And rightly so, because they've laid down the rules, which they need to in order to protect themselves as an organisation funding itself through advertising. AO3 is entirely volunteer and fan run, so if anyone gets all mad about FFN being too "restrictive" why don't they just move themselves on over there. Sure, the user interface isn't as great and the tagging system is pure chaos, but overall it would be in everyone's best interests. I'd even argue that MA material is more likely to get attention on AO3 than on FFN, if that isn't persuasive enough! In my experience you'll get more feedback on smut fics than you will regular fics on that site, so if people really want to share their MA rated stuff, that is the best place for them! I don't know why they fight so hard to get away with posting it on FFN when there's much better places for it.
There is a line between M and MA, and occasionally it can be hard to define depending on how many flowery euphemisms people use to be obvious without being explicit, but in the vast majority of cases, that isn't what you seen on FFN. It's just clear MA material that shouldn't be there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not kidding myself that if 14 year olds can't access MA on that site they can't access it at all (whether they should is another matter) but there are good legal reasons for the site enforcing that rule, and the site has a duty to try to protect its users. That means not making MA content available to minors, and people ought to respect that. Just because it's widely available elsewhere on the internet isn't an excuse, because that isn't FFN's responsibility.
I've also noticed that MA and PWP fic I've seen on other sites generally has a higher writing quality than anything I've happened across on FFN, probably because the writers themselves are more mature and don't have this sense of entitlement that makes them think they can post it in inappropriate places. The badly written nature of most of the MA stuff on FFN makes it even more annoying, considering it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Sorry, kind of ranting here and preaching to the choir, I know, but this is something that really frustrates me.
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I've come across only one writer I can think of where the writing was pretty good on FFN and when I explained that they could get in trouble for MA material they started moving said material over to another site. The ones that post MA material aren't the only ones who whine about themselves being censored and how much their work is an art form. I'd say only 1% of the rule breaking stuff is truly creative, truly artistic... though it seems to be a bit higher with RPF, but not by much.
Fact: If you cared about your work and do consider it artistic and creative you would either make it compliant with the rules or you would find a venue that it fits.
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