Usually I would use this space to advertise DT's fic, but unfortunately it has been brought to my attention that a dear friend of mine is in need and I want to help her out. Anyone that doesn't agree with what she's trying to do can go to hell for all I care. I could name many people who I know have insulted her and I think you (if you're reading this) should be ashamed of yourselves and for encouraging others to follow your behavior. Some people just need to grow up and learn how to follow the rules that Xing has given us.
We may not like the no NC-17 rule, hells knows I don't, but it's no right to start some half-assed rebellion.
Teenage rebellion is all fine and dandy, but please find something worth rebelling about. Not this. Believe me, I'm a teenager and I signed that petition a year ago, but the rules are still here, and it's time we all moved on. There are plenty of other places to post NC-17, you don't need to post them on here.
If anyone is insulted by this, I'm sorry. Unless you happen to have insulted Vindictive, then I'm not. I hope you get mad at me too. See if I care.
Thank you.
OMAKE: The Special Case.
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And in this world of many ups and downs, more downs some of the time, everything comes to a screeching halt as the members of this assorted cast are assembled.
A lot of them have just woken up. A lot of them didn't even bother to show up, since they haven't actually taken residence in the house inside the fan fic author's brain, so they don't feel obligated to. And they're not, so however isn't there won't get into trouble. Chrissy Sky seems to be mad at a few other things at the moment.
DT frowned. "This is like when you got those flames for Parody From Hell, isn't it?"
"This is much worse," murmured her sister, who was huddled underneath a Sith-like cloak for this occasion. "Much, much worse."
Trowa, while in a half-asleep haze, knocked over the coffeemaker, and screamed. Quatre smirked over the rim of his teacup.
DT patted Quatre on the head then went to see what her sister was huddled over. "Nee-chan, mind me asking what this is about?"
"That's what we all want to know, woman," Wufei complained, swatting at Treize with a rolled up newspaper. Treize is wearing a pair of antennae, like Fred's. Fred probably doesn't mind since he's not there and can't see it.
Chrissy looked up at them suddenly, eyes bloodshot.
They all made faces at her, of various shock and disgust.
"Chrissy, maybe you should have gotten more sleep last night," Quatre said thoughtfully.
"Nee-chan, you look miserable," DT added.
"You look grotesque," Wufei said. DT hit him.
"Where's Heero and Duo?" Trowa murmured, coming into the room also.
DT shrugged. "Maybe they're getting reacquainted with each other. How should I know?"
"You're the other author of this," Wufei pointed out. He was still swatting at Treize.
"Not really. I just help Nee-chan out when she needs it." DT glared at him.
Just then, Heero ran into the room, chased by a haggard looking Zechs, who was being chased by a psychotic looking Duo.
DT's lips twitched. "Random Ranma ½ moment."
"Yeah," Trowa agreed, still sulking over his coffee that never was.
Quatre still looked rather happy about that.
"See, I was talking to a friend of mine, because we're working on something together, and if I say what people will know the true identity of said friend, so I'll try to be as anonymous as I can be," Chrissy said, then took a deep breath before she continued. Hopefully with a few more periods. "So, we were talking right? Then I saw how people were treating her when she reported people's fics."
"Reporting fics?" Quatre asked.
"On ff.net you mean?" Wufei asked, now interesting but still hitting Treize from time to time.
Chrissy nodded. "Yeah. People are posting NC-17 under R. So, when she finds them she reports them. And people actually think she's in the wrong!"
DT frowned again. "Well, isn't she being kind of a tattletale doing that?"
"If she doesn't, and if people continue posting lemons on here that shouldn't be, then Xing might get in trouble again and ff.net might be made a paying members-only site. She's doing the right thing."
"Who says it's the right thing?" Trowa asked, still a little lost over his coffee and not paying attention.
Chrissy sighed. "Okay, NC-17 fics are not allowed. R is, and I know that, but there's a fine line between foreplay and soft-core porn. The Harry Potter section is a good example of this."
Wufei irked. "Harry Potter porn?!" he managed between coughs.
DT nodded. "Not as extraordinary as you make it seem. It's gotten so popular that JK Rowling herself found HP fan fics. Even NC-17 ones, or so I've heard. She was angry and wanted them removed, for the sake of younger fans of her books. You have to see where people are coming from; they're adults with children and they want to protect those children. That is why those new rules are up. Well, maybe not all of them, but definitely the one about NC-17 fics. Xing doesn't want to be sued because kids are reading porn on his site. That's all there is to it."
Chrissy nodded vehemently in agreement, hair moving along in accordance to the movement. "My friend, Vindictive, is just trying to do the right thing and I really, really don't appreciate some of the responses she's getting. People are calling her a hypocrite. They don't even know what a hypocrite means! If she were a hypocrite she would have NC-17 fics posted on ff.net. I know for a fact that she doesn't! So she's not a hypocrite. They don't even know her and they're attacking her! She's just trying to get people to follow the rules, for the common good of us all."
"How's she handling it?" DT asked, patting Chrissy on the shoulder to try and calm her down. When her sister got started on these tirades it was hard to bring her back to Earth.
"She's cool about it, actually," Chrissy said, calming down slightly. "She told me to laugh about it and not worry about it." She glared at the floor then. "It's hard to ignore it though when it's a good friend who's getting flamed just because she's trying to do the right thing. So what if she's telling on people? They're breaking the rules!"
"And you're just an outstanding citizen," Wufei spat.
Chrissy waved a hand. "I do get carried away sometimes, but I've never gone that far. I love rebellion as much as the next person, but it's a rule on here now. If we want to continue using the services of ff.net we have to follow the rules given to us. We're obligated, Xing pays for this out of his pocket. Even if we may be angry at him we can't break his rules. We just grow up and move on."
"Are there any other places to post NC-17 fics?" Quatre asked.
"Tons!" Chrissy told him. "A good site that I moved to is Gundam Wing Universe, which allows NC-17 and has sections not only for GW but for Harry Potter and other Anime. And they have separate sections for Yaoi and Het, which I think is just awesome. You're guaranteed not to get any flames!" (1)
"That's cool," DT agreed.
"Fandomination, AdultFanFiction; a long story short," Chrissy concluded, "if you really want to write an NC-17 fic, go ahead, but don't try to play innocent and say it's not really a lemon, because I for one will tell you a lot of people do that. And it's not right for the rest of us who are following the rules. The MST3k section was removed because people weren't asking permission to mst fics, and it was removed. I wasn't always asking permission, but due to these recent circumstances I am now obligated to, even if I don't post them on ff.net." Damn her guilty conscious.
"Can we go now?" Wufei asked.
Chrissy nodded, climbing onto the couch to take a nap. "Yeah, sure, do what you want."
"Awesome," Treize said, and jumped onto the struggling Wufei.
"That's not what I mean!" Wufei cried, finding his newspaper useless.
If you find an NC-17 fic on FF.Net, I'm not asking you to report it. But I'm asking you to think long and hard about what I've said and make up your own minds about what's right and what's wrong. If you know what Vindictive is trying to do and don't agree with it, that's your own problem. If you have an NC-17 fic on this site, just know that it may or may not be reported, then removed. Then you'll get mad, and then what? Why's it so important to have a lemon on a site that doesn't allow them? Why is it important to get so angry about? Vindictive is just trying to do the right thing, and personally I don't see that she's wrong.
A link to her profile will be up in my own profile if you want further details. (Since I know I'm bad a them.)
1. I believe the link is in my profile. Go look if you're interested.
Note: This was written at 2 AM. Forgive the grammar. I'm going on a trip to Nevada in the morning and I should go to bed RIGHT NOW. =P
