Comments | lifein1973: Fic: Nine Tenths of the Law, C0ldSteel, Brown, Sam/Annie

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Fic: Nine Tenths of the Law, C0ldSteel, Brown, Sam/Annie

Nov 03, 2014 22:20

Title: Nine Tenths of the Law
Rating: Brown Cortina
Word count: about 3,100
Notes: C0ldSteel wanted to write a Sam/Annie, which this is, but it discusses other (rawther kinky) things, too. It gets about as smutty as they come, but there are helpful guidelines for skipping in case of squick. (Thanks! :p ) If you skip, it's about a Blue Cortina. ( Read more... )

rating: brown cortina, genre: romance, character: ray, character: annie, character: the missus, rating: blue cortina, genre: established relationship, fic, pairing: sam/annie, pairing: gene/the missus, character: sam, character: gene

Comments 4

basaltgrrl November 6 2014, 18:59:46 UTC

I'm befuddled about coldsteel being concerned about people being squicked by good ol' male/female missionary position sex, but not warning for extensive discussion of three-and potentially moresomes.

That said, it's a nice piece and everyone seems in character.

On the subject of smut it's really quite tame; coldsteel should maybe sample the archives here at li'73 and/or ask for recs to get a sense of the LoM smut that's out there. And there's lots. One of my all-time favorite authors (petronelle) has written Sam/Annie smut that really probes the boundaries.

master_pages November 6 2014, 19:55:26 UTC

Well, fanfiction.net is a little different from this comm--I believe the rules say not to include any explicit sexual descriptions. (which people break constantly!) T is supposed to literally mean 13 and up and M is supposed to mean something like if you saw this in a movie it would be rated R. As a very conservative individual, I greatly appreciate warnings about such explicit stuff, and just because there is more graphic fic out there, that doesn't mean that I'm eager to read the "tame" smut without at least knowing what I'm getting into, if that makes sense. "good ol' male/female" sex scenes in movies still squick me a little, but I know I'm unusual in that area. (Of course I'm a Christian with Asperger's syndrome, so... that may explain it.) The discussion of a threesome didn't get detailed at all, so I didn't find it nearly as big an issue but as it might be to some I'll suggest adding a warning about it ( ... )

basaltgrrl November 7 2014, 12:16:07 UTC

Firstly let me be clear that I think it's totally cool for people to set their boundaries where they will! Not everyone wants to read smut, which is why fandom is full of warnings and rating systems, etc. of course it's also fine for people to write and read that smutty stuff.

I know I read a lot of smutty LoM fic on fanfiction.net before I found lj, so I had no idea there was any such effort to "keep it clean".

The truth is I had a knee jerk reaction to your describing this fic as "as smutty as they come". Without having any knowledge of your (or Coldsteel's boundaries) It just made me think "Whoah, you haven't explored the archives much, have you?" Now I'm not saying you should run out and read stuff that's squicks you, that you really don't want to read. I think I want to say, just don't make assumptions. Don't assume that your audience does (or does not) want to read smut. Don't assume it's gonna blow their minds.

Re: "good ol' male/female sex" vs. the concept of a threesome, I'd argue that a lot of traditionally minded folks ( ... )

master_pages November 7 2014, 18:32:57 UTC

Fair points. I looked over FF.net's guidelines again and anything explicit they consider "MA" and their rating system for stories goes up to only "M." Obviously they don't police it very closely because I've run into TONS of MA level stories there (often without proper warnings)... only one or two that have been censored, so I suspect that only happens when someone gets offended and turns them in to the administrators ( ... )