knzen Posted December 27, 2013 Report Posted December 27, 2013 I've been writing a Sailor Moon fic for the past month or so. It is in the female/female area because it is all female female for the first 4 chapters. In the 5th chapter there is a male sort of introduced who is involved in some encounters (4 total though 3 of them are short enough that to me they all blend together). Anyway there are in total around 20 female/female encounters (usually clumped together and in some cases making up 90% of the chapter), and the 4 (or 2) encounters involving a male. A review was posted that the whole story should be moved because of the hand full of hetero encounters. My question is this, is the female/female category for stories that have 100% female/female content, or stories centered around female/female pairings? In the general section this would be no worry but when I started I didn't plan for there to be any males involved but I let the characters do whatever and made some requests happen, one of which caused this male to enter. Is it fine to be in the female/female section or should I see about having it moved? Here is a link to the story:http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600054394 Quote
SillySilenia Posted December 27, 2013 Report Posted December 27, 2013 So long as the focus of the story lies on the f/f encounters and the m/f encounters are relatively speaking of lesser importance to the story rather than a huge part of it, it is fine in the F/F section. However, it would be fairly important in this case to add an M/F-tag to your summary or first chapter. People who are reading in a Femslash section are expecting, well, female action. Without the appropriate tagging, having M/F scenes could come as a nasty surprise to them. Quote
knzen Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Posted December 27, 2013 Ok, I shall add the tag, they kind of need to be updated anyway. Is that the official mod answer, or should I keep checking back? Don't want to have to worry about having to reupload the material. I had a feeling the section needed stories focused on f/f encounters but not strictly 100%. There are a lot of encounters, especially in chapter 3-5. Quote
DemonGoddess Posted December 27, 2013 Report Posted December 27, 2013 Nope, that's the official answer. Your story is predominantly F/F, so that is DEFINITELY where it belongs. Quote
knzen Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Posted December 27, 2013 Awesome, thanks a bunch. Sorry for doubting you guys, I wasnted to have all my basis covered. Quote
SillySilenia Posted December 27, 2013 Report Posted December 27, 2013 Don't worry about it. Better that you make sure than that you end up following flawed advice, yes? Quote
knzen Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Posted December 27, 2013 Thanks again, I linked the top of that chapter here and added the M/F tag to the story and the top portion of the chapter before the disclaimer. Anything else I should do? Will this topic stay here? It's kinda odd there are no clear cut rules about this that I could find already written anywhere. Quote
DemonGoddess Posted December 27, 2013 Report Posted December 27, 2013 Actually there are. That's exactly why the tagging exists. In a for instance such as this story, the predominant feature of the story is that it is F/F. That you have some M/F included in it, simply means you tag for that part of your story. For that matter, where it's only a few places, here and there, we have plenty of authors who add the tag as the first paragraph of the affected chapter, rather than adding it to the summary. I expect I should step this out at some point, so that should the question come up, the answer is perfectly clear. Quote
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