'Heart Of Gold'
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Several people have pointed out that Juliet was underage
They do know that Juliet's fictional, right? Good lord, are they going to apply the current age of consent/underage rules to all of history?? God help the person writing fiction about historical people.
I see the fuss, now.
oh, crap. My story "Nessuno" specifically says Alexander is 17. Jeez, in Renaissance Italy, he could likely be a dad by then!
Here's the money quote:
This includes...child pornography (photos or videos), or other material -- including drawings and text -- that explicitly depicts minors under the age of 18 (real or not) in a graphic sexual context. Or, in other words: Romeo and Juliet is okay. Teens talking about their experiences with sex is okay. Smut focused on a twelve year old is not okay.
Frankly, the way I read that, I don't see that teens talking about their experience are okay at all, if they're at all frank. And Romeo and Juliet may be fine, but half of freaking Judy Blume's oeuvre could be right out.
It also wipes out most of Smallville fandom, half of Harry Potter fandom, some of Buffy fandom...
Oh, for sure.
I want to see their definition of "explicit" and "graphic".
"If you call it a dick that's explicit, please call it a penis. We prefer pee-pee. Throbbing manroot is also acceptable."
Their explanations made vague references to "fluids". Basically it seems to come down to "makes us go ewww."
LJ has made a "clarification" of their previous statements -- [link] and it's not exactly clear.
Cue HP fandom explosion.
(Also, I'm confused by all these AS/S icons, and I know it's a spoiler for book 7, and I'll be sad to be spoiled, but I wanna know! I'm such a whiner.)
Oh, cool, Nutty has posted her story. Here's a nice non-wanky way to spend some time, and no HP spoilers!
SPN, AU, PG, gen. And very good.