Comments | snape_sanity: Fic: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings

sailorlum in snape_sanity

Fic: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings - Chapt. 1

Dec 13, 2010 19:30

The skinny: This is a long Severus/Lily fic series, where Severus Snape has some character growth and he and Lily Evans get to stay together for good, and where their lives are explored in detail (with some exploration for their friends and enemies, too). There will be romance, comedy, drama, angst, smut, action, slice of life, shmoop, wizarding ( Read more... )

nc-17, r, snape/lily, fic

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scrollgirl December 14 2010, 07:27:20 UTC

Please don't feel you have to answer, but I'm curious why you changed the ages of the characters. Is it simply to avoid having Snape and Lily get together while they're still underage? Because the age of consent in the UK is 16, in case you didn't know, so it's perfectly okay for them to be having sex at the end of their fifth year.

(Of course, whether you feel comfortable writing 16-year-olds having sex is another matter!)

sailorlum December 15 2010, 01:10:21 UTC

No problem, I don't mind answering questions. ;)

I decided to age everyone up so I could avoid the whole chan issue. A lot of HP fic archives I’ve come across require that all characters in NC-17 situations be 17 or 18 and up, and I want to keep my archiving options open. Also, I feel more comfortable writing graphic sex for people age 18 and up, than I do for 16 and up, anyway.

Nifty icon, BTW. :)

scrollgirl December 15 2010, 02:09:03 UTC

Thanks for answering! I can appreciate your POV on taking artistic liberties to feel more comfortable with sex scenes :)

I like your icon too!

sailorlum December 16 2010, 23:11:47 UTC

No problem. ;)

Actually, since almost every comment I've gotten about the fic, thus far, is about the age change, I've taken it as a sign to change it back to canon. I can get over not being able to submit my fic to some archives (it turned out it was a group of archives by the same group, so it wasn't that many, anyway), and canon aged Severus and Lily are two consenting people of the same age, who are at the age of consent, and no one is getting arrested for writing "16 and up graphic sex" in written fiction, so...I probably shouldn't worry about writing it. It's not like I bat an eye at other people's fics when they write two consenting people at the age of consent having graphic sex.

I like your icon too!

Thanks, it's one of my favorites. :)

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