ext_245255 ([identity profile] lumcheng.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] getithere2009-11-05 08:53 pm

Sad, depressing fics including sex

Edit 2: Okay, lol, funny discussion but still no recs (which I didn't know) ._. Slip Away can't be the only one, or? ;_;
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Yeah, the title says it all, I think, lol
I'm in the mood for this right now, so...
Can someone rec me some well-written really, sad, depressing B/J fics which also include lemonSEX? (There's nothing better than despair!sex, lol)
Something like 'Slip away' by Branwen777.
I checked the 'down the well' tags/memories, but I couldn't figure out which of these fics were really depressing in general AND had the dirty stuff as well ^^;

Edit: Sorry ^^; Bidyke is right - lemon means graphic sex, lol. Didn't know it's only common in germany for sex in all kind of fics. We have lemon for more graphic sex and lime for implied sex. There's even something in between, but I won't go that deep into explanations now, lol

[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's not. You'll find the terms "lemon" and "lime" in slash fiction. Almost every archive out there that caters to slash use those terms, as well as "yaoi" and "hentai", geared more towards the anime fics. There's also chan, which you may know. If not, that's fic with underaged characters.

I wish I'd seen this earlier, it would have been funny jumping in going, "Hey, we only use those terms for non-canon slash!fic!" lol

[identity profile] flamencanyc.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. I've never seen or heard of them used in the QaF, DW/TW, Star Trek, Oz, or AI fandoms, that's for sure. Slash or no.

So let me rephrase, it sounds like they're predominantly used in the anime and other related fandoms (i.e. those of Japanese origin such as anime, hentai, yaoi, chan, etc.), but I guess they may also be used in some other non-Japanese origin slash fandoms that I'm not familiar with.

Interesting either way. Though I still don't get why anyone would bother using such odd euphemisms rather than just saying sex or porn or using standard ratings. But that's okay, I don't need to get it. Fact is, they do.

[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I remember the first time I saw those types of warnings; it was when I was brand new to the fanfiction thing...way back in 2002. lol Those warnings had me all kinds of confused! I was all, "Lemon? WTF is that??"

Those warnings abound at large multi-fandom archives, such as ff.net, aff.net, and several Harry Potter archives as well. I haven't seen any at archives that host QAF fic, that I recall, anyway. And oddly enough, I don't recall seeing that at the Smallville archive sites, either, which would be mostly slash.