A Fanfiction Writing Limit List

[reynardo]

This one is for all of you fanfic writers (and receivers) out there, who are signing up for various fests and have to say what you do or do not want included in your fic. It's hard to write *all* the different preferences down, so here's what you do:

Scan these lists. If you're happy with everything under a category, just put in your fic-request a link to this and say "Green, please" or "Green, Blue and Pink please".

If there's bits and pieces, your request might read "Green and blue please, but no pink. Also whipped cream and honey."

And if your choices are fairly broad, you might do "No Black, No Red, only Playing Doctor out of orange, everything else is good."

(Warning - there are lists of all sorts of sexual activities under here. Please be aware they may be triggering.)

Here we go!

Green: Pre-sex.
Holding hands
Hugging
Goodnight kiss on the cheek
Going on a date/going out with someone (just the going out bit, nothing else)
Gentle Flirting
French Kissing
Necking (clothes on) (ear-nibbling, over-clothes breast fondlings, finger-sucking)
Petting (Some clothes off)
Massages (Up to towel-only)
Shared sleeping situation with someone (eg sharing a bed with nothing happening, or in the car due to breakdown)
Writing love letters, making sweet phone calls, declarations of love.


Blue (Opposite gender) or Pink (Same-Sex) Starting to get a little steamy.
Masturbation by yourself
Frottage
Mutual Masturbation
Sexual Intercourse in a standard position
Oral Sex
Anal Sex
Sexual intercourse in tame locations, eg hotel bed, couch at the beach house, tent while camping.
Phone sex
Stripteasing and slow undressing of the other person.
Washing each other or naked swimming
Shaving genitals


Purple: Getting a little out of the vanilla here.
BDSM Lite: Consensual hand-tying, blindfolding
Spanking, tickling, teasing
Use of dildos, vibrators, suitable implements (eg carrots, turnips - be careful here please) for orgasmic or enjoyable times
Feathers
Whipped cream, chocolate sauce and honey
Making out in more unlikely places - the pool, the back seat of the car at the drive-in, under the bridal table of your sister's wedding (yes, I heard about that one),
Picking up a one-night-stand, or anonymous sex
Lots of noise and physical activity - off the chandelier, weird positions, something that knocks the entire dinner setting off the bridal table at your sister's wedding.
Threesomes and moresomes
Fantasies, (made clear at the beginning, eg "pretend non-consensual with safe word")
Large age differences. (Eg 20 year old man, 50 year old woman)
Leather wear, rubber wear, lacy negligees and real stockings
Gender play.


Orange: Getting a bit stranger.
Prostitution.
Posing naked in magazines, strip show, art piece, or as the centrepiece of the bridal table at your sister's wedding.
Fisting.
Felching
Cross-dressing for the enjoyment.
Adult Baby play
Streaking across the dance floor
Serious rope work - shibari, immobilisation, suspension, isolation.
Genital Piercings, chastity belts
Ball gags, harnesses, getting into pony play
Playing doctor with all those nasty instruments.
Having Sex in a strange place - church, graveyard, public monument, in front of the cameras trying to film the Superbowl
Hot wax
Filming or sound recording sex
The undead - vampires, zombies, mummies (Hey, some of that fanfic...)
Supernatural creatures (from Cthulhu to a Space Monster)


Red: Rough and Nasty, or just unpleasant.
Rough sex to the point of deliberate bruising or even bleeding
BDSM involving clamps, whips, large objects and pain
No-limits-no-safeword
Infidelity
Drugs
Scat, golden showers, spitting in someone's face, cutting, menstrual blood, enemas
Humility and power games
Body Modification of a more serious nature (tattoos, tight corsets, etc)
Breath play


Black: Illegal, immoral but not fattening.
Underage
Non con and dub con, and full-on rape.
Mutilation
Deliberate injury and death
Animals (including Tentacle Porn if it's not capable of giving consent)
Humiliation, reputation ruining, psychological attacks.
Coercion and blackmail.
Giving someone drugs or alcohol against their will
The dead.
Mind control and memory wiping
Sexual Abuse, emotional abuse, gaslighting


I fully admit that I scanned a couple of different Purity Tests for these, but also made arbitrary decisions about where to draw the various lines. Hey - you've got to put them somewhere.

Please feel free to suggest additions or amendments, (I'll keep a track of them from here on), and definitely feel free to pass this to your fest-fic loving friends.

Edits:
1.1.1 - 24/9 - moved Undead to "Orange", clarified. Also added ABO, Supernatural, fisting to Orange. Gender play to Purple. Animal Tentacles clarified under Black unless able to communicate consent.

1.1.2 - 1/2/2016 piercing is in twice, so limiting it to "orange".

Comments

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

The undead

I remain grateful that in my forays into reading Walking Dead fic, I've haven't seen zombie porn....yet.

Very handy reference!

[nopseud]

The only zombie porn I've read (and written) has been in popslash. Because, yes.


Interesting list. I'll might point people over here for Make The Yuletide Gay, although by now I think most of the people who still sign up know each other pretty well.

Have you thought about adding broader tropes that affect the sex scenes? Like genderswitch, ABO, that kind of thing? Um...tentacles, maybe?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thank you! And, in thinking about it, tentacles and undead aren't that bad - I'm downgrading them to Orange.

[nopseud]

Undead are kind of tricky, because you're running the whole gamut from sexy vampires who are basically just people with sharp teeth, to actual rotting corpses that squelch and run the risk of shedding organs during sex. And tentacles can be anything from really cute and innocuous to very nasty, depending on what they're doing at the time.

Hmm...likewise, drugs is pretty broad. I'm not sure a couple of characters sharing a joint and a snuggle really fits in with the rest of the Red. But I can see that it could get tricky to break it down further.

(I have so many appropriate icons to choose from for this post. Two zombies, one vampire, these tentacles, the various animals including the giant newt...)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It also is very much a matter of consent vs non - a sentient mushroom asking nicely is a lot less nasty than a vampire using the mind control. Same with the drugs. But yes, the lines need to be somewhere.

And as for icons - so many :-)

[nopseud]

Yes! I was going to comment about animals in the same vein -- some people who would be squicked by fic including sex with normal animals would be okay with sentient animals/people who've turned into animals, and some people would be squicked by both. Maybe there should be a 'sentient non-humans' category in, hmm, Orange?

Actually, to wildly over-engineer a solution, maybe what this problem needs is a 'geek code' style shorthand, plus a website where you can generate a code, or plug in your recipient's code and it will return full lists of their okay/not okay preferences. :-)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember the old Geek code that was a series of letters in your sig file. Oh god how that ages me! Yes, would work too. I leave that one in your capable hands!

[delphipsmith]

...a sentient mushroom asking nicely is a lot less nasty than a vampire using the mind control...

::giggles madly at mushroom idea::

[kerravonsen]

I think vampires count as undead too, and I suspect there is a lot of vampire sex out there...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Agreed - vampires, zombies, mummies - but also I'm going to move them to orange. After all, if they're consenting...

[delphipsmith]

Zombie porn seems like it would be tricky because with zombies, don't things eventually, y'know, rot and fall off?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

But if they were paying for it, they could leave a tip...


*Ducks and runs like hell*

[delphipsmith]

Now THAT is bad lol

[nopseud]

don't things eventually, y'know, rot and fall off?

Why yes, yes they do.

[delphipsmith]

*snerk*