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HerrPibb

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As a new "member" of Literotica, I submitted a three-chapter story under Celebrities. I know the first two chapters were approved and online for about 48 hours and yesterday afternoon the third chapter had been approved for posting. I just checked for comments and was surprised to learn all three are now rejected, the sole reason given that fictional characters can't be (in essence) made older than they were on TV.

That's all very well and good, but you should be consistent in enforcing that rule. There are stories about the "Leave It To Beaver" cast in the Literotica archives; I read them before I started writing to gauge what was acceptable on Literotica and to verify that my idea wasn't a rehash of a previous submission. Literotica also has stories about the "Happy Days" characters and "The Brady Bunch." "Happy Days" may have continued after the main characters had graduated from high school, but as I recall Greg and Marcia were still in high school when "The Brady Bunch" ended.

And actually, the "kids" in "Leave It To Beaver" did enter adulthood as fictional characters. In the 80s, "The New Leave It To Beaver" and "Still The Beaver" featured Theodore, Wally and Eddie as grown men and heads of households. So technically my stories about Beaver and the gang in college do meet Literotica's rules, based on the 80s TV sequels to the 60s sitcom.
 
If you really want to address the "you," you'll have to send a PM to Laurel, the site editor. It seems that she rarely reads the bulletin board. And you'd best include examples of what you found like yours that are still in the story file. It's quite possible the inconsistency is there, but posting about to the board is just spinning wheels. Nothing we can do but say "aww, too bad."
 
HerrPibb said:
As a new "member" of Literotica, I submitted a three-chapter story under Celebrities. I know the first two chapters were approved and online for about 48 hours and yesterday afternoon the third chapter had been approved for posting. I just checked for comments and was surprised to learn all three are now rejected, the sole reason given that fictional characters can't be (in essence) made older than they were on TV.

That's all very well and good, but you should be consistent in enforcing that rule. There are stories about the "Leave It To Beaver" cast in the Literotica archives; I read them before I started writing to gauge what was acceptable on Literotica and to verify that my idea wasn't a rehash of a previous submission. Literotica also has stories about the "Happy Days" characters and "The Brady Bunch." "Happy Days" may have continued after the main characters had graduated from high school, but as I recall Greg and Marcia were still in high school when "The Brady Bunch" ended.

And actually, the "kids" in "Leave It To Beaver" did enter adulthood as fictional characters. In the 80s, "The New Leave It To Beaver" and "Still The Beaver" featured Theodore, Wally and Eddie as grown men and heads of households. So technically my stories about Beaver and the gang in college do meet Literotica's rules, based on the 80s TV sequels to the 60s sitcom.
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Thank you for responding to my comment, Laurel. Following your instructions, I've added a disclaimer at the beginning of each story that references the "Still The Beaver" 80s sequel rather than the original series. In the "Notes" section I've added an explanation that includes titles of the "Brady Bunch" and "Happy Days" stories in the Literotica archive.

I probably would have just dropped it if you hadn't responded to this thread. If the disclaimer won't satisfy Literotica's guidelines, then so be it. I've found Literotica stories through Google search in the past, but in setting up an account and learning the site's proper submission process and acceptable types of stories, I've realized that y'all are quite heterosexual. It appears most of the visitors to Literotica are looking for straight porn, which shouldn't surprise me. But I couldn't even begin to write a description of straight sex. The resulting story would be such a joke it wouldn't even be considered satire.
 
HerrPibb said:
I've found Literotica stories through Google search in the past, but in setting up an account and learning the site's proper submission process and acceptable types of stories, I've realized that y'all are quite heterosexual. It appears most of the visitors to Literotica are looking for straight porn, which shouldn't surprise me. But I couldn't even begin to write a description of straight sex. The resulting story would be such a joke it wouldn't even be considered satire.
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In my experience Literotica readers are a pretty diverse bunch. People looking for straight sex might well be a majority, but the reader base is large enough that there are probably fans out there for just about anything you might care to write. The tricky part is helping them find your particular needle in that gigantic haystack.

The current categorisation system doesn't serve same-sex content very well; if I'm writing a F-F romance or horror story, I have to choose which aspect to categorise by, and risk losing half my target audience (while annoying a whole bunch who like F-F but not romance, or vice versa). If you're writing same-sex celeb stories you may not even get the choice; I think Celebrity trumps other categories.

But if you write a lot of M-M celebrity, eventually people who want M-M celeb will discover it and bookmark you, and people who don't will learn not to click on your stories. Everybody wins! Another option might be to write some non-celeb M-M stories for the Gay Male category, and draw readers over. I can't speak for GM, but I can tell you that readers who discovered me as an author of happily-ever-after F-F romance have followed me all the way into Erotic Horror.
 
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