Introducing: The 'Sauce-O-Meter v1.1'! · 1:16am May 5th, 2012
You're probably a bit baffled, and maybe even a little more than perturbed, by my choice of post title. Let's dive right in;
Thing is, 'Shipping' and 'Romance' aren't exactly the most infomative of tags. You click on a story listed as such, and you could end up reading something rediculously explicit. It could be a simple innocent frolic in the adventure of crushes and flirting, but never go into any squemish detail. Any story from the former, the latter and anywhere in between gets mixed together into the same category, Shipping. That word has very diverse and complicated connotations now.
So, the Sauce-O-Meter is a rating system I cunningly devised back in semptember of last year. Simply rating the content on a scale of 0 to 10 on the extent it goes to in the shipping genre can tell the reader what kind of a shipfic it is, and help judge whether they want to read it. It also includes a Content Rating Description as well as a score, but in all honesty they're just guidelines to help with the rating, and are done in part for the sake of humour.
The Sauce-O-Meter v1.1;
0. No Ship
1. FriendShip!
2. Crushes / Dating
3. Bonking Faces Together
4. 'True Love'
5. Romance
6. Hot-Sauce
7. Implied Sexytime
8. Explicit Sexytime
9. Eyesoap
10. Hot Stuff Baby This Evening
So yeah, have fun with that. Hopefully this system will help people know that the story they're about to read is what they think it is, so you won't every again start reading what you think is a simple shipfic and end up mentally scarred again.
And now my minions, go forth and rate the monumental backlog of fics that have been written prior to this post! Fly!
-Beige