One of our readers, Kerry Smith, has drawn our attention to something causing concern throughout fanfiction communities. She forwarded this to us -
- comments from Writtenword aka Kuschi
Fanfiction.net is doing a major "cleansing" of all stories that contain scenes of a mature sexual nature. That means pretty much 90% of all their stories. Their rules have always been vague, because what constitutes as "adult themes" in one place of the world, is totally acceptable for teenagers in others. If you have your stories archived on ff.net, be sure to get a backup before your account ends up deleted or temporarily banned. A couple of Mirandy stories have already disappeared!! It could very well be that my account there gets banned or deleted some time soon as well, because half of my stories contain sex scenes. Where I live, consensual, happy, non-violent sex does not constitute as "MA", but apparently on ff.net it does.
Women in Kevlar has a moderator's notice about it. With links to a petition you can sign.
And the LiveJournal community dedicated to rants about fanfiction.net has about 40 posts on the subject - including how to get AO3 codes
To be honest, while I'm surprised that the FFdotnet admins have collectively managed to find the energy to do anything - given their snail-like attitude to dealing with complaints of plagiarism or abuse, I'm not surprised that having decided to do something they are removing these stories. Many of them are, after all, in contravention of the sites TOS, and if you play in somebody else's garden you have to play by their rules. I do think they should give people warning though, and allow them to amend or remove their stories themselves, rather than simply charging in left, right, and centre. And if they're cracking down on this then they really should be cracking down on all the other abuses - script-fics, for example. Or non-fics that are merely ship rants. A bit of consistency in applying the rules is always a good idea.
There are plenty of other load-it-yourself sites which do allow more adult themes. Lunaescence, AO3, l-word, Adult Fanfiction.net. Not to mention the communities on Dreamwidth or LiveJournal.
And of course there are masses of single fandom or multi-fandom submission-only archives around.
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- Final Fantasy XIII
- Native by thene (GirlGay).
Grey's Anatomy
- Chapter 4 of Turns on a Dime by trancegem (callie-arizona).
- Battered Polaroids by strandedinaber (callie-arizona).
NCIS
- Fragments of the Whole by olivia_j (NCIS Femslash).
Original
- The Candy Striper by Melissa Grace (Royal Academy of Bards).
- Part 6 of Haven by Knightales (Royal Academy of Bards).
Rizzoli & Isles
- Marathon by ArcadiaArden (Royal Academy of Bards Annex).
- Run by ArcadiaArden (Royal Academy of Bards Annex).
- Chapter 15 of Kismet by xxblackxsatinxx (Rizzoli & Isles LJ).
South of Nowhere
- Chapter 5 of Let’s Get Married by Dev (Clom n Dev's S-O-N Fanfiction).
Xena Warrior Princess
- Parts 24 & 25 of Lord Conqueror of the Realm by WarriorJudge (Royal Academy of Bards).
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