BronxWench

Uh... that.
Thanks.

In all honesty, I think writing, and the inherent escapism of living for a time in another world of one's own creation, is probably one of the healthiest and sanest responses to stress that there is.
It's often easier to face hard issues in the settings we create and control, and I'm frequently surprised when I see a solution to a real life problem after I've been writing about something quite different. The skills I use as a writer to resolve conflict in my stories and among my characters seem to trigger a sort of thinking outside the box effect in my real life, if that makes any sense.

If they don't actually stay dead, the MCD is probably overkill. Just saying. Unless they come back as something incorporeal, in which case MCD is probably needed.

Damned if I can remember who or where, but I did read somewhere that a good novel-length story should have 3 crises and an ending that resolves them. The crises don't need to be overwhelmingly dark or gritty, but that seemed to have been seen as the key. With that in mind, I thought about most of the books I've read and found memorable, and there seems to be something to that theory.
In a short work, you can have one issue, and as long as you resolve it for the reader, it's all good. But novels need something more, and sometimes the viewpoint that life isn't always pretty, or orderly, or even very fair works for those crises. I think that's why I enjoy doing short pieces here, because it's actually much more of a challenge to create short fiction that holds a reader's attention while letting them enjoy the fapping bits, too.

The largest selling segment in the erotic romance market right now is slash, which is roughly half the market. The primary purchasers are women, and most of the publishers that handle this market ask for Happy Ever After, or at least Happily For Now endings. Rape is pretty much off the table, along with a few other quirks. You can actually look at the submission requirements for most of our advertisers to see what they want.
Here at AFF, we prefer to remain free of censorship as far as content, but we do ask that it be tagged to avoid having readers encounter trigger issues like rape unprepared. The tags can be offputting, however, and many authors would prefer not to have them right up front like that. But it boils down to the site admins' decision to protect readers first and foremost, while acknowledging that tags can cause readers to avoid certain stories.

While I might argue the "socially conditioned" portion of the above, I do agree. And it is very true that we insist on trigger tags specifically so that people CAN avoid rape fics and other things they find objectionable. (Like scat, thankyouverymuch.)

The first thing I look for (unsurprisingly) is the summary. I don't read a huge number of fandoms, and those I do read tend to lend themselves to serious amounts of plot mixed in with the erotica. I like plot as opposed to PWP.
I both read and write slash and het. I'm not overly fond of femmeslash, but I will read it if it's well done, and not just an excuse to parade girls in strap-ons or futanari. And at the first sign of one female calling another her "ass-bitch" or "anal slut," i'm gone. Sorry, but I don't care for women who emulate the worse of male behavior.
I don't like rape when it's presented as enjoyable, or an excuse for a character to decide to fall for their rapist. Really? I'd be much more likely to want to see the son of a bitch dead in a dozen really creative and hideously painful ways. I can accept rape as a plot device, I prefer it to be presented as the bad thing it is, and I certainly don't squeal with happiness when I encounter gang rape.
Same thing with incest, for the most part, although I will happily make an exception for Elladan and Elrohir because that is just too delicious a bit of twincest to ignore.
So what DO I like? I like characters that have flaws, characters that are complex and interesting, and plot. Lots of plot. I like women who aren't always beautiful, who don't have every man lapping at their feet, and who can take care of themselves for the most part. I like men who can look a woman in the eye, or who can have a relationship with another man without turning into a queen who cries during sex. (There is NO crying during sex.)
That's a bit, anyway, of what I like.

My most evil plot bunny (currently locked in the closet) was spawned while driving with my mother. I was passed by a tanker carrying jet fuel, and moments later, a truck loaded with industrial lubricant passed me.
I blame my mother for pointing out the truck of lube.

The difference is largely in the visual depictions found on that site. I'm going to quote from the response we give to complaints about stories with under-18 fictional characters:
We follow a policy of no censorship, as long as the content is legal. While we can't allow stories involving real persons under the age of 18, fictional characters are permissible as long as the story is properly tagged so those readers who prefer not to see such content can click on past it.
And given the volume of Harry Potter fictions involving a large cast of generally underage characters involved with each other, with professors, with parents, with siblings, and with creatures, I'd say that it's not so much the content as it is the context.

I will state, as one of the archive moderators, I rarely warn an author if the only tag missing is NoSex, just like I don't warn for a missing M/F tag if the story is in the Het subcategory. It honestly shouldn't matter, and I say that as an author as well as a moderator.
Adult fiction means a great deal more than erotica. It can mean dealing with darker themes: loss, anxiety, depression, and the like. There's no requirement that stories here have sex, and there's not even a requirement that stories contain "adult" content. Many authors come here simply because we are an actively moderated archive, and we respond to our members promptly when there is a question or an issue, such as suspected plagiarism. It makes the authors feel safe, because we care about their stories as much as they do.
There are sites that only permit erotic content. We are not one of them, and I for one am quite proud of that.

Well, of course, because it's an awesome book!

After a week and a half, I think, of disappearance I have finally finished what I set off to do. Danse Macabre is finally available to the masses! Hurrah *shoots off streamers* It's free on Smashwords and .99 cents on Amazon and Nook (I couldn't figure out how to make it free) until the 24th and it's 12.99 in paperback... because amazon -.-.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013VVSIDK
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/danse-macabre-christina-quinn/1122520020
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/568827
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1514116650/ <-- print

I will state, as one of the archive moderators, I rarely warn an author if the only tag missing is NoSex, just like I don't warn for a missing M/F tag if the story is in the Het subcategory. It honestly shouldn't matter, and I say that as an author as well as a moderator.
Adult fiction means a great deal more than erotica. It can mean dealing with darker themes: loss, anxiety, depression, and the like. There's no requirement that stories here have sex, and there's not even a requirement that stories contain "adult" content. Many authors come here simply because we are an actively moderated archive, and we respond to our members promptly when there is a question or an issue, such as suspected plagiarism. It makes the authors feel safe, because we care about their stories as much as they do.
There are sites that only permit erotic content. We are not one of them, and I for one am quite proud of that.

But sometimes there is sex, it's just not in the first chapter... I myself have been lambasted for the lack of smut and/or the fact that it takes a few chapters to get to the smut in my stories. I'm sorry but I prefer to advance the plot a bit and give my characters a reason to have sex.
I suggest you look for the PWP tag if you're simply looking for something to fap to and leave those of us that actually like a little plot with our erotica alone to enjoy it.
CL

Guest XxX, we are a moderated archive, and therefore we enforce the rules on required tags, etc. So, the moderators do make sure that stories are correctly tagged, and if they are not, the moderators ask the authors to fix the missing tags.
Since our mods are human (mostly ) there can always (on rare occasions) be mistakes, or missed tags that are not addressed. And if you find a story like that, it would be highly appreciated if you could let us know, and send us a link to the "offending" story.
To do that, you can either click the little "Report" button at the bottom of each chapter (this is the best option), send an email to: tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org or post a report here: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/forum/97-all-other-tos-violations/ No matter which option you use, please be as detailed as you can, providing links to the story, name of the story, and what is missing.
Beyond that, I agree with CL, and suggest you keep your eyes open for the PWP-tag.
Thank you, and we hope you have fun.

I will state, as one of the archive moderators, I rarely warn an author if the only tag missing is NoSex, just like I don't warn for a missing M/F tag if the story is in the Het subcategory. It honestly shouldn't matter, and I say that as an author as well as a moderator.
Adult fiction means a great deal more than erotica. It can mean dealing with darker themes: loss, anxiety, depression, and the like. There's no requirement that stories here have sex, and there's not even a requirement that stories contain "adult" content. Many authors come here simply because we are an actively moderated archive, and we respond to our members promptly when there is a question or an issue, such as suspected plagiarism. It makes the authors feel safe, because we care about their stories as much as they do.
There are sites that only permit erotic content. We are not one of them, and I for one am quite proud of that.

I will state, as one of the archive moderators, I rarely warn an author if the only tag missing is NoSex, just like I don't warn for a missing M/F tag if the story is in the Het subcategory. It honestly shouldn't matter, and I say that as an author as well as a moderator.
Adult fiction means a great deal more than erotica. It can mean dealing with darker themes: loss, anxiety, depression, and the like. There's no requirement that stories here have sex, and there's not even a requirement that stories contain "adult" content. Many authors come here simply because we are an actively moderated archive, and we respond to our members promptly when there is a question or an issue, such as suspected plagiarism. It makes the authors feel safe, because we care about their stories as much as they do.
There are sites that only permit erotic content. We are not one of them, and I for one am quite proud of that.

Thank you! but sorry, 15 years and younger is too young for me to write or think about and even if they were a couple years older I don't think I could make it work. Still, I'm sure someone will take it for you

Looking at my stories, I've made Amelia Bones a rapist, Flitwick a necrophile, Luna a lesbian, McGonagall a student seducer, Harry a secret glory holer, Draco an enslaver and Hermione a dog fucker. And only the Flitwick thing has any kind of subtext in canon. Maybe.

As such, I fear that I've done more than many to propogate the sort of terrible PWP stories that shit all over the HP characters, settting, and plots.

In HP fanfic terms - I'm a monster. I do things in the setting that make no possible sense. My muse was so disgusted they packed up and went off around the world for eight months, and then came back and forced me to write a second person story. And even I wasn't able to work out how the "big butt, big breast" requirement could possibly work in a story that involves "femHarry" "in the first year" in a "brothel". It's like the OP is the only pedophile in the world who doesn't remember what the other 11 year olds looked like when they were a kid. Maybe the character could be played by one of the ladies linked in thebooblover's always entertaining and sometimes quite scary requests.

Still, as long as readers and writers are happy I suppose the "Don't like, Don't read" mantra makes a lot of sense. I always like to suggest it for any stories likely to cause distress, although sadly I still have English majors emailing me in tears over my grammar and complete lack of understanding of the vocative comma, which I thought was a Brooklyn low-fi band.
Possibly the best way to protest unliked requests is to make liked requests, or write liked stories, or support liked authors doing the proper-in-character-canon-compliant smut with concrit, or other comments. Positivity is more effective than negativity! Which is why I, as a negative asshole, never achive much of anything and instead just complain about stuff that pisses me off on the internet all the time. Like magusfang. That guy... *shakes fist* I kid... I kid... or do I?

Yes. Yes it is.

Does it really matter if its not canon? The writer just has to put that its AU. It's called creative licence.
If you don't think you would enjoy their story, you don't have to read it. It's honestly that simple.

I guess it doesn't really need much explaining, but just in case it does: :drool:

My wet dream weapon of mass tire destruction became my main avatar everywhere I have an avatar change friendly account. I used to own an AAR Cuda, but I lost it because of the idiot I used to be married to long ago. Since this one is also in my all time favorite color of green, and I write Initial D Yaoi coupled with actual automotive info and facts involved, seemed to be the best idea. My only other Avatar is a dragon image from a book jacket that I adored reading in the 80's.

My avatar cannot be explained.
It just is.

Sometimes I catch her