Can I just say that I find it weirdly cool that you print out my stories to read them in the bath? I don't know why, I suppose I just always figure people just read them on the computer screen and the idea of them being printed out and read elsewhere is cool to me. :D Don't worry about the lateness! It was a nice surprise.
Oh man, I am so bad at trying to decide if something should be R or NC-17 and what the actual difference is. Generally now I figure that if it's fairly vague smut that doesn't mention actual words for genitalia, I can give it an R, whereas if it's much more detailed it gets an NC-17. But I struggled with this one, because it did end up kinda specific. And I also have this silly worry that giving something an NC-17 rating can sometimes de-value it in some way, because a total PWP would be rated NC-17, but a really long plot-filled fic could have one short but detailed sex scene and that would get an NC-17 too. And it's not like the PWP wouldn't be as good a story or anything, but sometimes I worry that an NC-17 rating reduces it to the sex alone. And with this fic in particular, I felt like it went deeper than that with Skandar's feelings and the intricacies of their relationship. It's hard to explain.
Then, as you said, there's something about just the strength of it, aside from the technicalities like whether I've written the word 'cock' or not, because a fic might say all the words but not have any heat to it, and then what does that mean for the rating? Hmm. It's tricky. But I'll take the fact that you thought it might need a higher rating as a compliment. :D
I have such a specific way of seeing Skandar and Tilda's relationship, and it's all thought out and detailed in my head, and so it's interesting to read the reactions of people who obviously don't have that, because as much as I tried to get it all across in the fic I just couldn't. I definitely don't see it as the kind of thing where they would acknowledge anything that was going on, it's almost competitive in that way. And Skandar's denial and refusal to say anything comes mostly from shame, in my mind, and shyness and intimidation, all centered around the fact that he met her when he was so young and she was an even more intimidating character, and he was scared of women and Andrew basically set the whole thing up for him to see her a certain way.
Gah - rambling now, I get this way about them. Anyway, I'm so glad I could show the complexity of the relationship at all, let alone well - thank you. ♥ As always, I love your comments.
Poor random woman at the door!! I think she would probably just assume her mind was playing tricks on her, because surely she didn't just walk in on the aftermath of the kid who plays Edmund going down on Tilda Swinton...haha. XD
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Date: 2011-04-24 11:14 pm (UTC)Oh man, I am so bad at trying to decide if something should be R or NC-17 and what the actual difference is. Generally now I figure that if it's fairly vague smut that doesn't mention actual words for genitalia, I can give it an R, whereas if it's much more detailed it gets an NC-17. But I struggled with this one, because it did end up kinda specific. And I also have this silly worry that giving something an NC-17 rating can sometimes de-value it in some way, because a total PWP would be rated NC-17, but a really long plot-filled fic could have one short but detailed sex scene and that would get an NC-17 too. And it's not like the PWP wouldn't be as good a story or anything, but sometimes I worry that an NC-17 rating reduces it to the sex alone. And with this fic in particular, I felt like it went deeper than that with Skandar's feelings and the intricacies of their relationship. It's hard to explain.
Then, as you said, there's something about just the strength of it, aside from the technicalities like whether I've written the word 'cock' or not, because a fic might say all the words but not have any heat to it, and then what does that mean for the rating? Hmm. It's tricky. But I'll take the fact that you thought it might need a higher rating as a compliment. :D
I have such a specific way of seeing Skandar and Tilda's relationship, and it's all thought out and detailed in my head, and so it's interesting to read the reactions of people who obviously don't have that, because as much as I tried to get it all across in the fic I just couldn't. I definitely don't see it as the kind of thing where they would acknowledge anything that was going on, it's almost competitive in that way. And Skandar's denial and refusal to say anything comes mostly from shame, in my mind, and shyness and intimidation, all centered around the fact that he met her when he was so young and she was an even more intimidating character, and he was scared of women and Andrew basically set the whole thing up for him to see her a certain way.
Gah - rambling now, I get this way about them. Anyway, I'm so glad I could show the complexity of the relationship at all, let alone well - thank you. ♥ As always, I love your comments.
Poor random woman at the door!! I think she would probably just assume her mind was playing tricks on her, because surely she didn't just walk in on the aftermath of the kid who plays Edmund going down on Tilda Swinton...haha. XD