Kids today, amiright?

[lizbee]

Finding myself awake at 4 am this morning, I checked my email. I had two pieces of anonymous feedback on an Avatar fic I posted ... last year? The year before? Anyway, when I woke up again at 7, I had two more reviews from the same anon:



They go from the bottom up.

First, I had to ask what "lemons" means. (It's a now out-of-vogue term for smut, apparently, mostly popular in anime fandoms.)

Sadly, there's no way of communicating with this anonymouse. Otherwise, I would say the following:

1. The fic is ended. It had a high rating for violence and an arranged underage marriage. Nowhere did I promise "lemons".

2. You're right, that was a weak ending. But not because of the lack of citrus fruit. Even if I did a "remake", it wouldn't be smutty.

3. I was not aware that having over 20 reviews meant I was now taking orders.

4. FF.net doesn't even allow explicit fic!

5. Aang is, like, 13 in this fic! Are you some kind of pervert?

Comments

[umadoshi]

Awww, I still find myself automatically starting to use citrus as a labeling system. Now I feel vaguely sentimental.

I'd always had the vague impression that is was done more among anime fans than English-language media fans, but perhaps that's incorrect. ^^;

[amberfox]

To the best of my knowledge, that's correct. I mean, it's been a while, but that's how I remember it.

[geek_anachronism]

I've been reading a bunch of academic histories of fandom and yeah, it gets a mention as a ratings system in early fandom, but not a whole lot apart from that. I vaguely remember seeing it a few times in my early Potter/Stargate years (late 90s/early 00s) but not recently.

[delfinnium]

When I was in Gundam Wing, which is an anime, lemon and lime were ratings yes. And they were both to imply sex, violence was warned for separately, if warned for at all. If a citrus fruit appeared at all in the ratings it meant sex/makingouts/something was going to happen.

It still is visible in anime fandoms - (see the GWAddiction fanfic archive), and I do think that for fans who had come from those times and continue on in similar anime fandoms, they would continue to use that ratings.

Western type fandoms do not use it.

(Hi! reading from a friend of a friend's dwroll!)

[attackfish]

Western type fandoms do not use it.

Lies and slander. It was all over Harry Potter fandom once upon a time. Takes me back.

Dear God, ff.net reviewers seem to be uncommonly entitled as a whole.