I realized that ffn doesn't offer an option to turn off guest reviews when I published here. And this, I realized, means ffn doesn't protect underage kids from being able to access explicit content. I had reservations when starting this account (I try to make separate profiles for different fandoms and het fanfic vs. slash fanfic), but I went against them when I published to this site. I made a difficult choice this morning (07-04-2015) and decided not put publish my explicit slash work on this site any longer. If you're going to criticize me, I at least want to thank you for having the guts to speak up. It takes a lot of courage to tell an artist/writer that you don't like what they've done and say with the intention of helping them grow. That's called workshopping. It's a character challenge (at least to me) to listen to people tell you they didn't like what you wrote and why without flying off the handle and telling them to go to hell. Sometimes, they have really valid points. When you're hiding under anonymous to say something negative, I can't thank you for your honesty and courage to criticize and attempt to start a dialogue about where/what sucks in my writing. That drives me insane, I'm such a people-pleaser. I have published in small presses and it's hard to have an editor come down on what you wrote (and I like my privacy, so please don't ask where I'm published and what my OrigiFic penname is and where are my vignettes published). There is a reason I don't publish under my real name or have a beta; it would be too close to letting people know who I really am.

I want to chat with you (in a non-confrontational kind of way) when you say you don't like what I've written. Why? Where did I go wrong? I personally sign in to leave a negative review in hopes that we can discuss how YOU view someone else's characters you're writing as if they were your own. It's a sign of childishness and bullying to hide behind anonymous. And if there are people being childish on here, there's a chance some of them actually ARE children, and that scares me a LOT. I may be a little pervy and participate from time-to-time in alternative sexual lifestyles, but I am a huge advocate for the ending of all forms of child abuse and neglect, since I was a victim of child molestation myself. Fanfiction dot net isn't protecting minors when they don't require a sign-in for viewing explicit works, let alone reviewing. I am attempting to contact them about having some kind of method to protect minors from accessing explicit content.

I don't know that I will publish anything else explicit on here due to a lack of attempt to protect minor readers in fandoms, unless ffn offers us the option to make it only viewable to signed-in members. That's kind of atrocious to me as a mom. It's a challenge to interpret other people's characters from other works and it's sometimes difficult. I may seem like I have few morals (and maybe I don't after all), but I do think protecting children is difficult in this online world and we should be concerned about it. I will still publish on A03, though. Flame me all you want there, we can at least have a dialogue and I can work on improving my writing through on that site and start a dialogue with you.