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[MC Dirty]

That sounds like the kind of story I'd write if I was willing to write a rape scene. Except for that the n would inherently be incompatible with the a without some kind of blasphemous magic.

That is, unfortunately, true.
Hell, [n] would be incompatible with most of the other tags. Oh well, no [longcat] for us.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It'd just take an original character for whom rape and cruel bloody torture constitute a normal, everyday activity. Someone like Slag.

L is a bit too arbitrary a letter for "rape" though. L could mean same-sex relationships... with amplification going from low-squick F/F to high-squick M/M... oh gog this is horrible.

Why are we talking about this in a pony thread?

[Neonivek]

That sounds like the kind of story I'd write if I was willing to write a rape scene. Except for that the n would inherently be incompatible with the a without some kind of blasphemous magic.

That is, unfortunately, true.
Hell, [n] would be incompatible with most of the other tags. Oh well, no [longcat] for us.

Wait is everyone talking about the Carebears all of a sudden?

[Flying Dice]

Suggest use of [l]

• [L]
• for rape; [l] is used for male, [L] for female, and the case of the o indicates if it is described or implied. Rapist would come first, rapee second, with the o in the middle. So Dsarker's would be [L]
• [L].

[Dsarker]

Wait. The implication from that is that male rape is less bad than female rape.

[MC Dirty]

Code: [Select]

Suggest use of [l][o][L][O] for rape; [l] is used for male, [L] for female, and the case of the o indicates if it is described or implied. Rapist would come first, rapee second, with the o in the middle. So Dsarker's would be [L][o][L].

Sorta fixed that for ya.
Hmm, I don't know, this is getting way too complicated right now, especially since O is already "original character".
I think it's fine as it is. We can't possibly hope to cover every single fanfic with any amount of tags, so going into all these specifics makes it, in my opinion, more complicated than necessary.

[Flying Dice]

Of course, that wasn't a serious suggestion. I wanted to point out how absurd the idea of rape-as-comedy is.


 Also, just noticed how I screwed my post with lists.

Trixie, why does this not surprise me?

[Dsarker]

Just have a Brain Bleach-ometer.

From the lowest level (Lauren Faust) to low (Sean) medium (Crazy Cow) high (Dsarker) to ultra high (TBP).

[Drago55577]

A what?

[Flying Dice]

Or leave everything completely untagged, with a readme file containing a sanity warning.

A what?

See you in a few years. Or more.


_hopefully

[kaijyuu]

There are few things that can throw me into fits of real life rage, but implying that men being raped is in any way, shape, or form less heinous than women being raped is one of them. Use the same tag, please.

[MC Dirty]

Trixie, why does this not surprise me?

Haha, oh wow, that fits so well.

Also, new EqD banner already.

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Dsarker, I like your idea of a Brain-Bleach-o-Meter, but I don't think it would be a replacement for tags. It would make a good addition, though. Only problem is, it would make the tags in the file names even longer. Besides, how would you depict it? Numerically, from 1 to 5?
Hmm, actually, now that I think about it, that could work. It would mean just one more symbol in the file name.

[Sean Mirrsen]

A brainbleach-o-meter would give faulty readings on me. I've got an equivalent of a constant flow of bleach through mine, like a cooling system. It preemptively makes me forget things I'll regret remembering. Well, most of the time.

And yeah, kind of like a star rating, except more like a Squick rating.

[Flying Dice]

There are few things that can throw me into fits of real life rage, but implying that men being raped is in any way, shape, or form less heinous than women being raped is one of them. Use the same tag, please.

Actually, running with the interpretation Dsarker took from that comment of mine on how rape isn't funny, the implication would have been the other way around. (As 'lol' is less funny than 'LoL' and hence more serious)

And I still maintain my original position that if something needs a tag to indicate that there is rape in it, it probably shouldn't be included in the first place, as approximately 0% of rapes in (fan)fiction are treated seriously. So, I would say no rape tag at all, because chances are, the rape isn't particularly relevant to the plot, should never have been included in the first place, and should be removed before inclusion.

[Dsarker]

There are few things that can throw me into fits of real life rage, but implying that men being raped is in any way, shape, or form less heinous than women being raped is one of them. Use the same tag, please.

I'd say more heinous, simply because many countries don't have laws against the rape of men. It's not even considered.