Adult Humour and Time Preview · 11:54pm Jul 24th, 2012
*WARNING* This blog post contains spoilers and what FiMFiction has decided classify as mature-rated subjects. *WARNING*
If you're just here for the preview, check the bottom of this post.
So, I was happily making myself dinner after I finished reading the latest chapter of Lyra and Bon-Bon's Odd Jobs when I realized that hey, Triple X has adult humour. And I'm the author of Triple X...I should probably be worried about whether or not its rating will get changed...hey, that'd make a good blog post!
So, after spilling my dinner all over the floor (luckily it was just a microwave one) and making myself a new one, here I am. Now, this whole thing started probably around the time Friendly Uncle started posting his old stories here, eg Fluffershy and Estrus, each one being rated Teen. A story about Lyra and Bon-Bon working in a sperm bank also popped up at around the same time, also rated Teen. Understandably, some people took offense to these stories being rated Teen, and presumably bombarded knighty to do something about it, which he did. Though, then again, this is all assumptions, considering the blog post he made was excruciatingly vague. I personally think this topic deserves more mention than 11 words (unless you count that picture as a 1000, but only you trolls do that).
Now, deciding what's mature and what isn't is definitely a hard thing to do. It's a very fine line to tread, and you'll get a group of people mad no matter where you set the boundary. That said, I think knighty's decision was actually pretty justified. Chugging sperm and talking about doing it with a cloud cause you don't need lube is, in my opinion, probably crossing that imaginary line. Fluffershy also got changed to mature, though, and that's what makes me worry. No single moment in that story really stood out to me like the other two stories did as something that crosses the line, and there were a lot of times in the story where the humour is about on the same level as Triple X. In Chapter 2 and 3 of my story specifically, multiple types of porn are mentioned, and in Chapter 3, clopping is a discussed subject. Oh yeah, and Chapter 1 has a stripper in it...yeah, my story would probably be rated mature if it was still being read as much as Estrus is now. Seriously, everyone and their grandmother has probably read that thing by now!...Um, guess I should apologize for that mental image.
But I don't know, maybe knighty did consider my story for a rating change, but decided against it. You could certainly make an argument for it, too. For one, Fluffershy's entire plot (heh, plot) is based only around adult humour, while Triple X has a bit more depth than that. (Mind you, I'm not insulting Friendly Uncle or his stories here; I loved his stories, and I recommend that you guys read them if you haven't already.) Maybe that made it evade knighty's ratinghammer? Or he could've just decided it didn't matter, once again I don't know, due to the brevity of his blog post.
TL;DR, I'm not mad at knighty, his decisions were justified, and I fear for Triple X and am hoping he doesn't care about it.
Okay, so now that that's out of the way, I bet a few of you are wondering what the hell happened to the story I talked about when I wrote that blog post. Well, the first chapter's rough draft done now, and in fact, it's been done for a week, but my pre-reader has been lazy in getting around to reading it, so it's not ready to be released yet. So, here's an UNEDITED snippet of the first chapter for your wait. Hopefully, the chapter will be finished ASAP.
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A single candle illuminated the parchment, newly wet with ink. A quill levitated in front of it, deftly writing a flurry of words, each one perfectly written despite the speed. As it neared the end of the page, it stopped momentarily, allowing its holder to adjust her glasses.
Satisfied with their new location, Twilight magicked her paper onto what seemed like an evergrowing stack. When the night was young, it had only been a few pages deep, but it had at least quadrupled in size since then. Yawning, Twilight glanced back up at the tome she was copying, its ancient runes, ineligible to most ponies, looking back at her.
Twilight reached out with her magic and turned the page, being careful not to damage the fraying papyrus. She squinted at the page number in the top right corner. 483. Twilight had read through this book many times before accepting Celestia’s request for it to be translated, and she knew exactly how much more she’d have to write.
“Only 127,603 words to go...” she said with a sigh.
Twilight magicked a new page onto the desk and dipped the quill in her rapidly depleting inkwell. She was about to begin writing again when it dawned on her that a new light source had entered the room. She looked up to her window, and saw Celestia’s sun peaking over the newly-explored eastern reaches of the Everfree, heralding the arrival of a new day.
Twilight smirked at the sun. “Another all-nighter, huh?”
Thanks for snipit, I don't think they will care about stories that are already completed as much as those that are still going though.
They don't really mess with stories that already got approved, but you might want to change it to avoid any problems.
I wish they had a tag for adult topics but not adult presentation. Aka strippers is a mature topic that people object to but by itself can be a teen rating.
I just think it would be more honest to the reader.
248356 I'm not saying that I'm gonna change it; in fact, that's probably impossible without ruining the entire story. I'd much prefer to have it rated Mature.
248579 I'm sure they wont touch it though, I'm at least 82% positive.