Monica/Akira-chan wrote: 

At 08:41 PM 10/6/97, you wrote:

EternalLostLurker@worldnet.att.net wrote:

Uhhh...you're wrong about that. They're called "lemons" >> for a

reason. a "lemon" *is* *a* *sex* *fanfic*. No ifs, >> ands, butts, or
breasts about it. We call them lemons

because that's what they are.

There is a difference between a fanfic which is simply "an excuse" to have

sexual >situations present, and one in which the sexual content is there
for a reason. They >are both classified as lemons, and I do not object to
that. I simply did not wish my >story to be put in the wrong category
within that classification, that being only an >excuse to include sex
rather than a reason.

Very true...
As seeming to be of a very tiny minority on this ml at least, of a gal who
write yaoi stuffs, well, how do I put this? Lots and lots of ffic
yaoi/shonen-ai stuff on the net is also influenced by Western Slash, which
forces the charas thru _lots_ and _lots_ of angst. Yes, there is sex, but
the important focus is that the sex opens up to a new stage in the
relationship. So what does that make such fanfics? Just lemons?

A question from a friendly ecchi ml denizen...

	Well, to answer your question, straight from the Parrot Kings unmoving
yet oh so supile and yeilding yet firm and possesive yet quite definatly
dead... <gasp, wheeze> beak, is my question to you. When I read a REAL
good fic, one that leaps out of my silently glowering monitor and
straight into my brain, pausing just long enough to smell the roses of
my imagination on the way there, is that just a fan fic? Is Transitions
just a fic? What about Bitter End, is that simply dark? Or is Nameless
Sequel simply a funny little diversion? Yes and no. They ARE fic, dark,
lemony or humerous, by definetion. By the stagnant rules of what we as a
collective agree to view the world through, they are. But on that
intangible level of creativity, spirit, life, vibrance, and just plain
"Damn Goodness!" that they rise above the labels... or in this case,
tags. 

	Moncia, I would NEVER refer to one of your works as simply a fic I
read, Silk for Birthday was absoluelty bueatiful, but it IS a fic... a
yaoi fic. We give terms like these to quantify what we see, so as to
more easily catalouge it in our heads for further study. It is the
work's and the author's JOB to break through those limiting markers, and
into our souls. I come up with the same problems in my Jiastsu Bakuha
and Uses of the Knife story. Try as I might, they WILL get labled "dark"
simply becuase they deal with suicide <a subject dark as it deals with
the most unrationalable tradgedy of all, the death of the soul> but I
hope through my writing and expierence in that areana, that they will be
looked at as more. They will remain, to everyone, both Ranma fanfics,
and dark ones at that, but if I succeed... maybe something more will be
tagged on in the recesses of my reader's brain. 

	As for lemons, well, I have done the EXACT opposite of the norm, my
sexual scenes <the lemony scent of pine cones dipped in Haggis gravey>
were actually excuses for the punchilines ^_- <Mousse's Fun with
Fettellio, Ninja Gecko's, Logs N Love> There STILL lemons, but the only
sex involved is what's nessicary to get my audience into the COMPLETELY
wrong mood for the jokes I fling their way.

	One last note... YES people will STILL delete certain tags on sight.
There's nothing that can be done about it. I have lost more readers to
my original title Suicide Blast, then to my inordinate typos. Still,
those who are open enough to read and take in your work in the first
place WILL be your audience. Maybe they can convince others about the
gem that is hiding "beneath" their notice... maybe not, in the end,
you've lost nothing. Tag away, and warn your veiwers, far better to let
the rats abandon the offending fic, then to suffer innane flames by
those who wouldn't understand, great work or no.

	But then, I might be mistaken. ^_^;;

	Your friend, fan, and hack... 
	
	Keener, that guy who can't finish a fic to save his life. I'm listening
to PSME cd... are you?

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