Stories with a choice of categories.

[Panthers70]

I'd like your views on a problem I've encountered with a story I've recently had published,

Becoming more than a mother .

The main theme of the story was the developing sexual relationship between mother and son so I placed it in the incest category. However, because the story also has a non-consensual element when the mother was drugged and gang banged, it received a lot of negative feedback and low marks because people felt it was in the wrong category.

I've resubmitted it and asked admin to move it into the non-con category but now I'm wondering if people there won't like it because of the incest element!

Anyone got advice on what to do when a story could be placed into several distinctly different categories to minimise this type of negative feedback? Or do you just post it knowing that your story will almost certainly alienate a certain percentage of people who follow that particular group?

 

[DaddysLilLolly]

Or do you just post it knowing that your story will almost certainly alienate a certain percentage of people who follow that particular group?

I think you've hit the nail on the head with the part I've quoted. Besides, don't the owners place stories in categories they see fit no matter the category the author chose?

 

[NotWise]

I'd like your views on a problem I've encountered with a story I've recently had published,

Incest content is usually considered to trump any other possible category. People aren't reading Non-con to read about Sonny banging Mommy. I/T readers normally accept most other content along with the incest, but maybe raping Mommy is a little too much.

 

[Hypoxia]

Incest content is usually considered to trump any other possible category. People aren't reading Non-con to read about Sonny banging Mommy. I/T readers normally accept most other content along with the incest, but maybe raping Mommy is a little too much.

Have demons rape Mom. Then it fits in Erotic Horror.

You can successfully put violence in I/T tales if the violence isn't glorified and detailed, and there's redemption and maybe appropriate retribution.

I'd approach your scenario as: Mom and Sonny are somewhat close. Mom is raped by thugs (not too much detail). Sonny helps her recover. Romance grows. If Sonny finds a way to (non-violently) ratfuck the rapists, so much the better. That will be somewhat like an I/T series I need to finish.

That also follows model I use in much I/T. Consensual incest doesn't just happen. Something drastic triggers the taboo violation. Danger, trauma, and recovery are handy plot tools.

 

[SimonDoom]

Incest, as I understand it, is a "trump" category, meaning if you have incest in the story that's where it will be put by the site admins even if you have other elements and even if you want to put it elsewhere. So if that's a major element of the story, that's where it belongs.

You can't do anything about the fact that fans of some categories hate stories with elements of other categories.

 

[Hypoxia]

Incest, as I understand it, is a "trump" category, meaning if you have incest in the story that's where it will be put by the site admins even if you have other elements and even if you want to put it elsewhere. So if that's a major element of the story, that's where it belongs.

That's the kicker. I've posted successful Group tales with incest, GM, and other 'trump' elements, some significant, but they've all been subsidiary themes. (Fucking a bunch of cousins makes it Group, right?) I've put spots of incest in Mature and SciFi with no complaints.

You can't do anything about the fact that fans of some categories hate stories with elements of other categories.

That's how it works here. Audiences have their expectations.

 

[yukonnights]

If it's not too late to do so; About the best you can do is leave it the Incest category...but submit an 'edit' with a clear disclaimer/warning at beginning of it to warn of non-con elements. If they hate non-con but keep reading and hate non-con it's on them...

 

[Panthers70]

If it's not too late to do so; About the best you can do is leave it the Incest category...but submit an 'edit' with a clear disclaimer/warning at beginning of it to warn of non-con elements. If they hate non-con but keep reading and hate non-con it's on them...

Excellent idea, I've just done that and also asked admin to add the non-con tag to the story.

Thanks for your advice.