that notation can be very immersion-breaking for me, personally, at least when it is in the middle of chapters. if it's in the author's notes at the start and end of smut chapters, it works but in the middle, it really gets in my way.
i've usually seen it in the author's notes, which i think works pretty well. i don't usually see it mid-chapter, but putting it mid-chapter would be sorta immersion-breaking
I have had helpful authros notes telling to if they wanna skip smut skip from (line) Usually till end of chapter.
All things considered they forget my designation. They call me bulldozer They call me power shovel They call me dump truck They call me crane That's not my name. They call me front-end load(er) But I'm in root mode Maybe cement boy It's all the same That's not my name.
I'm actually trying to figure out how to work the planned sex scene in my fic, because while the whole thing is important to the plot, I wanna be able to like...warn for the actual fucking?
Could you do an author's note at the end of that chapter with a tl;dr of the stuff that's going to be plot-relevant that happened during the sexy bits?
Hmm. I've gotta admit the entire concept is strange to me. I tag and rate the fic. It contains what it contains, and the things are not separate. If someone wants to read a fic but sex is a hard nope, then they can just steer away from the fic rated explicit.
I wouldn´t consider it something like tagging that absolutely should be done by any means, but it´s a nice bonus if authors do do it. Mostly for plot heavy fic that happens to contain not plot relevant sex.
See, in my case it's largely a matter of bad planning on my end. I hadn't intended for the scene in question to be terribly explicit (it was gonna be very fade-to-black initially), but then I thought of something that could happen during the sex that would have some deliciously fucked up consequences, and decided that I definitely wanted that to happen. I guess I could still have it be kinda fade-to-black? But I feel like the Thing That Happens is something that'd have more impact if it's actually shown, since it's the classic "person calls out the wrong name in bed" setup with a bunch of external circumstances that kinda make it worse for everyone involved.
I've run across a number of fics where the author has explained in the notes at the beginning of chapters that the rating has gone up because the content is more explicit than they knew it would be when they started the story. You could maybe provide a brief summary of the fucked up thing that happened in the notes at the end of the chapter if you feel like it?
That's probably a good way to go about it. The fic is already rated Mature, so depending on how in-depth I get with the sexings I might be able to keep the rating? Thanks y'all! <3
Well its taken a few weeks in this fandom but bromance is offically one of my least favorite words ever invented =_= (Stop tagging your fics bromance because you want them to exist in some sort of queer dmz where oh, its meant to be friendship but you knoooowwww it could be more ;););););););) )
yep. queer baiting is bad enough when canon does it. and "bromance" is just one of those no homo words in general, the way it tends to get used, so even without it being used in a fic's tags to create a queer dmv, i still always feel about it.
Subjugation is…oh geez. In my head it's "the everyone-rapes-hermaphrodite!Snape" fic, although it's not actually everyone, I thiiiink just Dumbledore and Voldemort and…Sirius Black? Um, and Snape gets pregnant. And you know, I've seen so much crazy shit in HP fic that summary sounds really tame to me. fake edit: ninja'd! Thanks for that link, @LadyNighteyes, I'd forgotten Lupin was involved…
You know, I'm always willing to give a/b/o a shot, but man I could really do without the whole "ohhhh your a/b/o thing is your GENDER (but we're still only going to use two pronouns and it's going to be heavily coded as male/female and the genital makeup is going to be standard but for Butt Lube)" thing that leads to a/b/o fics getting tagged with 'trans character'. Buddy, I read the whole damn thing. A self-lubricating butthole does not a transman make. Frankly, that's an entirely different condition there.
Like, listen, if you want to discuss a/b/o dynamics in terms of gender, that's great, but that means your entire plot hinging on puberty is nnnnnot ideal. Because now it's not just "your pronouns and your presentation have no connection with your gender" (sometimes true but not always) but also "your gender and sex are intrinsically linked" (oh no) and "transgender identities are inherently sexual and must exist only as a direct result of puberty and sexual inclinations" (oh no.) It's bad from top to bottom, is what I'm saying.
