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NC-17 Stories Have Plots!
mare:
--- Quote from: Tri on October 07, 2007, 06:12:54 PM ---Actually, Mare, you were the first one to enlighten me about the fact that there is a stigma on NC-17 stories. lol. Honestly, before that, I never knew! You even gave me this suggestion about the rating: "I would say if your story is less about the sex and more about the plot, maybe it would be a good idea to change it. You can try to see if it makes a difference?"
I don't know if you've read Any Other Way or What the Heart Wants, but I'm curious to know if you think the same way now. I obviously don't want to be berated for attaching an incorrect rating to my story. That's why I'm asking and putting the question out to the general public.
By the way, you made that post here back in August: http://absolutechaos.net/fictalk/index.php?topic=512.15.
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LOL yes I remember that very well. And I just knd of answered that strangely enough without even seeing your post.
Teri:
It's not about the readers though. its about the recognition being fair. You have to be 17 to get into a rated R movie don't you? So why put a rated R story as featured? It's merely because of the stigma. So pretty much it's come down to this either be fair and include everyone in THE SAME RECOGNITION or don't have recognition at all because if you're not going to be fair about it it taints EVERYONE who is recognized in saying "oh well you're good enough" and this other story that's just as good isn't because it contains more adult themes.
RokofAges75:
In reading the posts that were posted while I was typing mine, I think maybe it would help to come up with some descriptions of ratings that authors can use when deciding what rating their story should get, and that readers can use when searching for stories to read. Cause like I said, I have no idea where you draw the line! I know with movies, the rating depends on how much cussing, what words are said, how much sex, and how much skin is shown... there are pretty strict guidelines. Maybe we need something like that for fanfic to clarify the ratings for everyone and make the ratings carry across the board. Because right now, what might be considered NC-17 to one person is only R to another, and so on.
mare:
--- Quote from: Jamanda on October 07, 2007, 06:17:14 PM ---Uh, are R-rated not allowed to be featured? Because six of them are. A lot of those contains deaths, rape, graphic sexual content, and violence as well.
In my opinion, R is basically the same as NC-17. I don't think there's this big, gigantic difference.
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so what is the problem then?
I think so far everything that's been discussed has been mature enough without going into graphic detail so I see no problem with continuing with that although i'm starting to want to go all teacher and say the more complaining the less i'm willing. All you teachers know what I mean because now I feel like we're just complaining for complaining's sake.
Tri:
--- Quote from: mare on October 07, 2007, 06:19:11 PM ---LOL yes I remember that very well. And I just knd of answered that strangely enough without even seeing your post.
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lol, so do you still have the same feeling now? I mean, SHOULD I change it to R? Sex doesn't even really come in until the 20-something chapter of AOW (out of 75 chapters). Sure, it's descriptive, but it's not the entire story.
I don't even know if I'm being coherent anymore, but I hope I am.
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