Desiderius Price

On the story code question, would a used tampon (with blood), w/o sex, qualify as MBP?

Melrick will appreciate your volunteerism on this topic (once his computer woes are fixed).

Chapter 4, “Next Step”, is now posted, enjoy! - DP

They’re even more prolific than Mary Sue.

In my stories, the overarching antagonist is society, with the collective requirement of group thought. Don’t like it? Then, you are the problem, and must be sorted out. So, I’ll typically manifest that through characters in the story (ie, Ernest in Dolbourne Chronicles.) Of course, we all know who the real antagonists are … plot bunnies.

I tend to prefer mine realistic, so that typically means the antagonist isn’t evil-evil, but rather, operating from a different point of view. In my stories, that typically means the more “evil” characters believe they are doing the Lord’s work, believe that they are being righteous in doing so, or believe that they’ve been wronged somehow and it’s justice/revenge being levied out.

And roast some trolls while you’re at it. How much ketchup does it require to smother out the flavor of troll?

I know nothing about the situation, but it’s not like that stopped me from responding before! It’s a shame that those mods aren’t doing a better job at protecting an author from abuse (where they can reasonably do so). Assuming the mods aren’t being malicious in this, I can think of some reasons. 1) the horde replied to the summons, so you’re now one voice vs many on the matter, and they chose to believe the majority. 2) The mods don’t like your pairing either (or one of them has become part of the horde). 3) Way overloaded, and, well you’re one vs many. Trouble with trolls, it’s like weeds in a garden, let one stay, and you’re soon overran by them; chasing good authors away isn’t a good long term strategy. I second JayDee’s opinion, be the adult. If AO3 isn’t a good fit for you, well, AFF’s archives are open

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Little tidbit, Dale's Game was originally drafted to be my 2016 holiday story, starting with the shower scene in chapter two. However, once I realized it was too much for a oneshot, I decided to make Dale's Game a full story, and moved back a bit in time, to make the holiday fic. Overall, I’m happy I did this, because Dale's Game needed the space/pages that a oneshot couldn’t give it.

In the end, such a tag system would have to factor in intensity/duration/etc, and that’d just be more work for our already overtasked moderators. Also, how often do we stick to our original plans for our stories? Tags grow in scope, or get introduced. In the beginning, I wasn’t planning on Minor1 for any of my stories; however, I’m creating a universe so adding the tag can be far easier than rewriting a character’s age so they're 14 instead of 13.

To me, I was thinking [abortion] is “I heard Mary Sue had an abortion”, [abortion+] being “Mary Sue went to Planned Parenthood”, and [abortion++] is “Fred inserted the coat hanger….” Somebody looking for a gory abortion fic, would look for abortion++. btw, this post has the warning code [abortion] on it!

If 3+ is central to the story, then please advertise it! We're kinda using tags to serve two roles, one to warn about objectional content, and the second is to advertise. I’ve been keeping mine to the first purpose, because that makes it easier to apply them where needed. But, if people are treating them as advertisement, that’s where it gets tougher. That’s because using abortion] for mentioning that “Ms Charming” had an abortion, is different than [abortion] for describing the fine details of the procedure, a distinction crucial to somebody looking for a fic centered around an abortion. I’ve given this some thought. We could, for instance, tag each chapter with a severity rating, *but* such a system would be very prone to leaking spoilers if you know that chapter 7 has [abortion++], chapter 10 has [MCD], with [nec] in chapter 11; plus the time to code it up, get people adjusted, etc. In the end, the simplest solution is to keep doing what we’ve been doing, tag as a warning to objectional content, and advertise via category/summary. That’s my $0.02 worth on this.

Hmm… if the parasite is doing the control, might [toy] count?

Add in another human and you’re covered by 3+. Now, [xeno] might be applicable too. And if this isn’t related to some new president of the United States, I think that requires its own tag, with big warning all around it. - DP

Chapter 3, “Hard Evidence”, is now posted.

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