This is true, but it's hard not to hope that what pleases you will please other people. At the very least, I'd like to get them thinking. Even a scathing critique (that is not simply nastiness for the sake of being nasty, a la TWOP) would be a sigh of some kind of engagement with the text.

Oh, absolutely. But I think first you should always write what turns *you* on, not what you think the market will bear, or what the most people will comment on.

And I agree wholeheartedly with what you said about critique -- a YA blogger reviewed Cold Kiss and mostly loved it, but she was so funny and dead-on about the things she didn't like, and why, I was cheering through the whole thing because she obviously thought about it, and really engaged with the book.

Amy, would that depend on the state?

I think that what really scared me was the idea that since I had asked a question, I suddenly felt the fic being threatened (not really, just in my crazy brain) to turn into some afterschool special, and I think my research is doing a good enough job at that.

It would, but I'm thinking in general, or most states.

Amy, it looks like there is a fine and a probationary period: [link] although other links (California) seem to indicate some jail time.

Thanks, Julie!

Okay, Julie, I read the rest of apokteino's trilogy, and it's not what you're thinking of. But it is massively fucked up. And I checked the warnings--possible dub con. Yet? In the story? Seems so aware of being messed up and complicated.

I mean, it's different from the Cas-fellating-Colt story because we actually get a number of different POVs, but it seems pretty clear in the story that Cas is the only one that doesn't think there are consent issues. Weird.

Julie, you're brave to write asexual in fandom, but, yeah, in the end you gotta tell your story, not the possible story of everyone reading.

Thanks ita.

And to respond to your first post that outed me (bitch, I have an ulcer now, even though I feel much much better) I am delighted to hear that you're unsure what to root for! I think that was one of the nicest comments I've gotten. I still can't believe the fucking fluff I'm writing. . .

Actually, no, the nicest thing you said was that after being unimpressed with the D/C out there, you singled out mine. I'm fucking flabbergasted.

Am now reading apokteino's third fic because of you, damnit (still not seeing how it relates to the other two).

You must be thinking of other work by her. Bone starts of with Dean torturing Cas. It's all very much the same story. Messed up. No rape, though.

Take compliments where you can get 'em!

Huh.

Oh. Oh! Okay, now I remember which story we're in. The one where Dean tortures Cas into loving him. Okay. That one was slightly less, a lot less, horrific than the one I was thinking of. This makes so much more sense.

Take compliments where you can get 'em!

thanks again! This didn't turn out like my paranoid mind envisioned. Seriously, ulcer.

Complete left turn: Does anyone know what happens if you get arrested for hustling/hooking when you're an adult? Like, is there actual jail time involved?

I would imagine even in states that only have fines and probation, the arrest itself would result in a night in lock-up until one could make bail.