Deadman

I would say so personally. I mean, most characters are the gender they are for a reason. Particularly if the character has appeared on screen, like most of mine have. So I prefer to create an OC rather than gender bend a character. Or I just shift the sexuality of the character. More than a few of the female characters I write about have intense relationships with other women. Though most of them aren’t explicitly lesbians. So occasionally I just give them a broader sexuality, usually bisexual.

Okay, I guess the thing is that there’s a supernatural situation and the character is motionless for a while, then something magical happened, and they get up. I can see people thinking that would be interpreted as dying, but that’s not how I wrote it. Maybe I should rewrite it so it’s more clear?

Okay, new but related question on this same topic. Since asking about this, I wrote the ending to a completely different story. However, after finishing it, I realized that someone could take it to mean a character had died. Although that’s not the intention, I could see someone taking it that way. Curious if I should put a tag on that?

New chapter is up featuring Willow titled “Covenant”. https://buffy.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600092228&chapter=14 Only 2 chapters left after this.

Covenant Chapter 14 is up Summary: Willow is doing her best to recover from her magic addiction and all the terrible things she did in Sunnydale because of it. She is encouraged to join the rest of the Devon Coven in a particularly difficult test of her control of her magic. Things escalate from there.

I totally get that sentiment. As a general rule, I’m not a fan of Spike as a character. If you notice from Scooby Gang Time, he only appears once in the Anya chapter and it’s not even him. It’s a projection of him. He’s mentioned once another time in another chapter. He’s also not mentioned in Waking Up at Dawn. Technically, I wouldn’t have gotten Scooby Gang Time done beyond the first 3 chapters if not for Spiked though. I had mostly abandoned Scooby Gang Time as a collection of one shots until this story kinda bugged me until I couldn’t let it go. So as I was writing Spiked, it got me wanting to finish Scooby Gang Time. They were kinda written parallel to each other. Scooby Gang Time isn’t finished though. There are 3 more chapters and then I go into another fandom other than Buffy.

I wouldn’t say that the character is central to the story. But they are a main character in the fandom. The character only appears in one chapter out of six but they are technically the ex of another character who appears in the story and is mentioned in other chapters. The ex isn’t a major character either, they also just appear in one chapter but are mentioned other chapters. The character died in canon and so in a chapter after their appearance, it’s mentioned that they died. I don’t think that readers aware of the fandom would be surprised by it.

Just curious about the major character death tag. I have a story in which a character death happens in between two chapters. It’s mentioned but it’s not necessarily part of the story. The character does appear in a chapter of the story. Basically, between the two chapters is about a year of canon in which the character died. Should I be putting the tag on my story?

This is the review topic for my story Spiked. Just to give you a summary: https://buffy.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600092235

Author: Deadman Title: Spiked Summary: After Spike receives an unexpected visitor instead of Buffy who he was waiting for, they make a fun suggestion for when Buffy does get there. Spike takes them up on it, which then leads to a series of sexy situations between Spike, Buffy and a number of Buffy's friends. Buffy/Spike/Harmony, Buffy/Spike/Willow, Buffy/Spike/Amy, Buffy/Spike/Anya, Buffy/Spike/Tara, Buffy/Spike/Dawn Feedback: Happy to have feedback or suggestions. Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pairing: Threesomes/Moresomes Warnings: 3Plus AFFO Angst Bi BP CR Ds FF HC HJ Humil Inc MF Oral PWP Spank WIP Solo story or chaptered story: Chaptered story URL: https://buffy.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600092235

Well see, this is literally where the basics is though, the whole non-sex versus sex stuff. The original story that it’s based on is a love story with a mystery element. Basically, the main characters start to have feelings for each other and then a stalker starts trying to force them to confront their feelings. At one point they have to pretend to be a couple in public as a way to keep the stalker at bay. So the only thing that actually gets written is maybe some making out. There’s one scene where the main characters decide after revealing the true identity of the stalker decide to finally give in to their feelings. But literally what happens is that one invites the other into their bedroom, the door shuts and then the next chapter is the morning after. Whereas the sex version has no stalker because the stalker hasn’t been introduced to the story by the time it diverges. Essentially, they’re up on this weekend away and decide, “You know what? Let’s have sex and include our boyfriends in the fun.” That’s basically the whole story. But as I mentioned previously, that weekend away happens in chapter 4 of the above story I just outlined. I don’t think the sex story makes sense without the first 3 chapters.

Yes, that was a typo. I intended to say “non-sex” which is how AFF tends to categories things. If you’re writing a more traditional narrative story where the point isn’t necessarily the sex, it goes under “non-sex”. So my intent there is for it to be that I would have 20-30 pages of non-sex plot before getting to the sex stuff.

I appreciate it for sure. For details, most of my stuff here involve at least 5-15 pages of story before the sex actually happens in the story. However, for this story it would probably by 20-30 pages and either will have sex around page 25. Or I could just have 20-30 pages of non story, then chapter 2 will be the sex stuff.

I get that. The original story was very mystery oriented. Two female characters realize that they’re starting to have feelings for each other. The clean version does “fade to black” in the one sex scene that exists. Around chapter 3 or 4, they go away for the weekend with their boyfriends. The more sexual version has the four of them getting it on during their weekend away in various ways. Usually my stories on AFF are about 20-30 pages long per chapter. Whereas the first couple chapters of the clean on is 10 pages or so, if not less. So combining them together would put it in line with what I usually put on AFF.

Well that’s interesting. I guess I have a different definition of what plot is. But that’s just me.

Okay, that’s good to know. I’ve seen so many stories on the site where sex happens very quickly.

I appreciate the suggestion but I don’t need it. I literally just copied the chapters into a new folder with a new name for the story and solved the organizational problem. I’ll keep them separate that way.

I figured as much, but almost everything that I read on AFF usually has sex in the first chapter. I know at least a couple I’ve been interested in had no sex in it but the story didn’t make me want to read the rest. So I’m wondering if I’m an outlier or other people do bail on stories. Basically, the first 3 chapters of the “clean” version would end up as the first chapter of the AFF version. The fourth chapter has a sex scene which I could add to the first three.

I’m not worried. I’ve already finished with one without sex in it. So I don’t have to worry about mixing them up or anything like that. It’s more about how people on the site will likely want to read it. Whether people will read the first chapter expecting a sex scene but don’t get one. If that will stop people from reading chapter 2.

I’ve been thinking about a story I’ve been working on and it wasn’t originally intended to involve a lot of sex. However, I’ve since decided to do a second version of the story which has more sex. But I want to post the first couple chapters together as the first chapter for context. Would you read it if they only had sex in the second chapter? There’s a version of it where the end of the first chapter could have some sex in it. Not sure if I want to do this though.

New chapter is up featuring Faith titled “Men of Faith”. https://buffy.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600092228&chapter=13 Just FYI, there are only 3 more chapters left in this series.

Men of Faith Chapter 13 is up Summary: Frustrated with her patrol that night and looking forward to some time alone, Faith is interrupted by a vampire attack on a bus full of priests. She fights the vamps off but that doesn't help with her frustration. It has her looking for... other ways to be satisfied.

Okay, well, I suppose that’s good to know. For clarification, it’s actually a woman wanting to claim another woman as their own. In fact, it’s multiple women all getting the same tattoo. Or that’s the idea anyway. Given the nature of the relationships, it made sense to have them do this and a tramp stamp seemed to work. But if it’s in one location, that can still work.

Okay, because if wearing revealing clothing is part of it, technically wearing a sports bra would be revealing and anything under the shirt would be considered a “tramp stamp”. But if the lower back is the aspect, I suppose I can work with that. I guess I would just call a tattoo elsewhere, a tattoo? Unless there’s some other word for a tattoo meant to indicate a relationship. That’s sorta the point. To use an example from a fandom. There was a couple who got the other’s name tattooed on their body. When they put their arms next to each other, it formed a heart. That’s sorta the intent behind this but with much less of a cheesy idea behind it.

So the question sorta points out the whole thing. I’ve been thinking about the idea of a tramp stamp tattoo but I’m wondering where does it actually go? I don’t know that much about tattoos and don’t have anything myself. My understanding is that it usually goes on the lower back. But if it goes elsewhere on the body, is it not a tramp stamp? I have a character who is focused on certain parts of the body and I’m wondering if the tramp stamp is on a particular body part, is it still a tramp stamp?