The Further Adventures of an Ill-Rated Fanfic

[kennahijja]

Those of you who remember my recent confused posting about rating issues might be interested in the further tale of Slytherin Lovers. Which, to cut a long whine short, was rejected from one archive for not being NC-17 enough. Well, it was subsequently resubmitted to a lower-rated archive, where it was rejected for being too NC-17 :). Which didn't surprise me much, and I admit I was very entertained by sitting on the Fic That Broke The Rating System. Hey, I'm the one who's generally opposed to clear boundaries ;).

Well, as several wise people had advised me in the first place, I appealed with a (hopefully not to whiny) 'Look, it's got to belong *somewhere*, right, and I don't think among things child-safe', and wheeee! it got accepted. As R ;). Which makes me suspect it was more to shut me up than from conviction, but yeah, well, I feel better to have it *there* than *there*.

On the one hand the whole thing amuses me greatly, but on the other I think I broke my brain trying to figure out the dividing lines between NC-17 and R for good this time :). But at least it shows it's not just me!

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AND A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO adela711 (today!) AND furiosity (tomorrow!)
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Comments

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Thank you, darling! ♥

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

omg happy birthday from me too! ♥

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ♥

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

:x :x thank you! :>

Also, I've always found FA's ratings guide helpful whenever I wasn't sure. Or I just cheat by rating things in-between >.>

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

You'll be welcome tomorrow ;)

I did look at the ratings guide, and thought 'it's probably not going to flow' which it didn't :). Still, even that guide depends a lot on context and interpretation...

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

Just glad you were able to get one of my favorite stories ever archived!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not that I hadn't gotten it archived anyplace else, really ;). Just a matter of wanting all my smut in one place if there *is* such a neat place :).

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

And, oh, how do you do the SHINY hearts?

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Um... I dig up an old post that has them, and c&p ;). Not the most advanced thing, but I can't seem to memorise the code :(.

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for taking the time to do that for me. *goes off to practice shiny hearts*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

But there *is* a code for it too... *digs*... "& hearts ;" (without quotation marks and spaces)

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you got that worked out. How ridiculous. It sucks being at other people's mercy. Usually.

I love that story. I'd start an archive just to host it, if I could. ;)

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't mind rejection, but here I couldn't understand the rating reasons... It's just funny that one archive considered it R, the other NC-17, so it really fell between the cracks ;).