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I know ages of consent vary, but what matters is the legal age in the country that houses the servers that host your fic. And if you're posting on lj, that's America. (Or is it Russia now? I lose track). The age of consent on livejournal is therefore 18, even if you're English and writing about English teenagers having perfectly legal and consensual English sex.

When all this kerfluffle went on last year (I seem to recall it was some extremely conservative American group causing hassle, or claimed to be; I forget the specifics), the rule being implemented was simply No Sex Involving Minors. In the ensuing purge of livejournals, fanart (and not necessarily realistic art) of possibly-minors was hit, as were some journals and.or communities in which people discussed their experiences of sexual abuse. Suffice to say, it was a tad silly, but the net result is you're better off not taking the risk.

Of course, locked posts are another matter, because it's not like the general public is just going to stumble upon them, be outraged, and report you.

When you say leaking, what sort of quantities, velocities etc are we talking here?

If a man ejaculates inside a woman sans condom, and she then lies down for snuggles or sleep or angstiness or whatever (please, don't detail the whatevers you've found on aff.net for me), she's going to be feeling a bit... damp, thanks to their combined fluids.

If she gets up the next day, throws her knickers on, and dashes straight out to work, she's going to be finding semen in her undies all day. This is decidedly Not Pleasant.

If a woman has the sense to go to the toilet immediately or shortly after sex (because we don't want any UTIs, thank you very much), then some semen can be wiped away, and "bearing down" (as I believe is the technical name for those pelvic contractions used in passing waste, giving birth, and removing garlic if you're into home remedies for yeast infections) will help to remove much of the rest.

If a woman is trying to get knocked up, therefore, he best bet is to shuffle about immediately after sex so her legs are leaning up against a wall. This prevents leakage and so aids conception.

And that got disturbingly graphic, so maybe we should keep further technical sex questions to emails.

Consensus seems to be that we're looking at a purely British English phenomenon. I'm still confused by why non-British English is rather more prescriptive in this particular matter, but investigations will continue.

Cheers!

You see, said Monitor problems show everything as rancid yellow-green, meaning that I can't see anything red right now. Sorry!

Anyway, who wishes to take the fic? Hello, anyone, hello?

...someone going by "Ugolino" asked for a link to a story mentioned (but left unnamed) on the "Villain Sue" entry on TVTropes. Considering the fandom and the details, that sounds like a piece called "Stand of the Exiles," which I sporked on a blog a few months ago.

Much fanwank resulted, so I don't want to link to the damn thing directly. But here's the blog entry:
http://community.livejournal.com/warcraftsues/69041.html

Hope that helps.

but I have a morbid interest in, say, Deathstalker because I have no idea how he writes what he writes without throwing up. Also, he has no concept of biology and believes that the mouth and the womb are connected, but whatever...

"On the other hand, don't ever specifically say a character is under 18 in an unlocked post if they're making with the sexytimes. There was an awful lot of "the intarwebz are exploding!" over that a while back."

But it all depends on what fandom you're writing for and what the legal age of consent was in the country it is set in/your country. I think that Britain's legal age is sixteen. If I was writing something set around Roman Empire times, surely it'd be acceptable to write about a thirteen year old girl, say, in the first stages of sex. It'd be too uncomfortable for me to go 'all the way', shall we say, but that was what happened in that era. In one country (I can't remember what) grown men are married to girls before they're even out of the womb.

A couple of my scenes involve seventeen year olds, because that's perfectly legal here. I've considered one with two fifteen year olds, but I can't remember what for and it's not that far from the legal age, so it's relatively fine compared to some things I've read. *glares at SuicideKing on AFF*

And I'm almost afraid to ask but...

In most of the things I've seen on AFF, after the man has climaxed, semen started... well, leaking from the woman. Is this at all accurate.

Sorry... total virgin here... (which makes it rather scary that I can still seem to write better sex scenes than those who claim to have it daily)..

... couldn't the minors just, you know, lie about their age? I know that I first encountered AFF when I was sixteen. I was on a Halo website at the age of fourteen and clicked 'yes' to 'are you over sixteen?' Those sorts of things just annoy me.

This is along the lines of the chose your own adventure plot bunney a couple weeks ago.

The idea is, you are reading through a fic from the characters perspective, when you make your choice in the story, if it is not the `sue choice, you go along in the story. If you take the `sue choice, you get visited by agents and the story ends. (It may have to be a couple of chices but I really haven:t figured that part out yet)

I was thinking that an existing good fic could be used for this and side story lines could be written in by many people.

Is this a good idea? It would be a break from the regular agent perspective and have it from the `sues perspective.

Leto

No offense, dear, but that is a lot of excess punctuation.

Anyway, to actually be useful, I think that they'd just be a sort of Author's Note. The author attempting to put words in the readers' mouths, I guess. That's my two cents.

One of my few problems with your last mission was that it read more like an MST than a mission, so I'm glad that was improved on in this case. The mission was done well, I enjoyed reading it, look forward to seeing more from you.

In a badfic found on Quizilla, what do we do with the entities known as "the Quiztakers"? You know, you get stuff like...
"and then legolas wakled in he was crying and Sierrahressandranianala said 'whats' wrong?'
i luv legolas she cant have him!!! (well ok)
oh no whys he cryng (youll see)
*points sorwd at quizmakre* (oh no)"
...in which those loving Legolas, questioning his lachrymose state, or pointing swords are the Quiztakers. (This is not a genuine badfic.)
What is the correct procedure for disposing of them? Should they be killed? If so, how? They don't actively participate in the story, so do they count as bits or Author-Wraiths or what? Are they merely a glorified AN? Help!

A) Frederick, MD, America

B) [ii] He needs his head checked.

a)Central North Island, New Zealand.
b)"He needs his head checked." In a put-on Cockney accent.

http://hungryugolino.livejournal.com/936.html

Short and to the point this time.

For one, it means that it hides all the text put into the cut, so that you only see that by clicking on the post.

Take a look in here. Scroll down a bit. The entries with those bolded bracketed links are entries with LJ cuts. If you click on one of those entries, it will open it up, and you can see the full post. Until then, see how much easier it is to find individual posts? It's far less cluttered that way.

Also, on livejournal there is a thing called the friends page, where you can see all the posts made recently by your friends. Without an LJ cut, a post like yours is truly huge on the friends page, and requires a lot of scrolling to go past. It's considered polite to put long posts behind a cut.

Also, you use LJ cuts if you are saying something or using images that a person may find distressing or are not work safe. Then you use a cut, and warn outside the cut for what is in it.

But yes, I am still at letohaven @ hotmail . com and will ship it to you when you want! I know the pain of waiting for things. I wait for my favourite authors to write their novels all the time!

If they all come out at the same time, I will be able to get them to you. And 6300 yen is much less then I would have expected for them.

I am in the country until Sepetember, maybe December, haven:t decided yet.

L

What does a LJ cut do?

This sounds like FUN. We can totally do this.

At least, he got into quite a lot of trouble for talking about floral sexual organs as if they were human ...

As well as the locking, which Ansela's explained, lj also has adult content filters. So say you'd written a graphic and gory non-con fic. You'd mark it with the highest category of filter. Then, if anyone was logged into lj and tried to view your fic, if their stated birthdate makes them under 18, they'll be denied access. People who aren't logged in have to click a button confirming their age. It's not going to stop anyone from reading what you've written, but that extra level of attempt, on lj's part, to make sure underage people go where they're going willingly and with warnings, covers them slightly more legally (I presume) and means they're not so fussed about really graphic stuff.

On the other hand, don't ever specifically say a character is under 18 in an unlocked post if they're making with the sexytimes. There was an awful lot of "the intarwebz are exploding!" over that a while back.