Question on category placement

[GCStargazer]

So, I've been on Lit for a few years now and I occasionally do commissions. I was recently asked to do a comm but it's incest. Obviously, that goes in the incest/taboo category. The problem is I write furry/anthro-style fiction, so all my stuff falls in non-human.

Not sure which direction to go with this. If I post in non-human, I can clearly see everyone being like "That goes in incest/taboo" but I could also see incest/taboo being like "Take that furry-sh*t to non-human!".

Any advice would be awesome, thank you!

 

[LongDraw]

I would cover your bases early and make an author's comments section at the very beginning before the story like many authors here have done, myself included due to a long novel that contains elements of incest/taboo, anal, fantasy, and SciFi in addition to the overarching theme of Loving Wives.

I would recommend you click the link in my signature below for VY: A Beginning And An End as I used another author's note section as a template for my own.

 

[GCStargazer]

Thank you. Yes, I'm no stranger to throwing out messages from the author before a story begins. I suppose I'll put it in incest/taboo since that's the most hard-hitting kink in it, then just put a cursory warning at the beginning that it's anthro characters. Nothing else the moderators can move it if they don't like it. XD

Thanks again for the advice.

 

[LongDraw]

I basically go by the rule of if 50% or more of the story involves one category, then that's where it belongs.

 

[njlauren]

The categories can be very fluid, it is possible to have content in an area like romance that involved transgender characters, and the way I look at it is relevance. If the story is erotic about someone being transgendered or a crossdresser, put it there, but if the person being transgender or kinky is an aspect but not the focus, then put it in romance or wherever. I just ran into that, I wrote a satire centered around a story that has spawned some ridiculous number of versions over on loving wives. I could have put it in humor and satire, but by putting it in loving wives i felt it would have a lot more relevant since regular readers there know the story i am satirizing.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And don't forget, Laurel has the last word on where a story goes. Incest among furries would probably not cause her to move it to I/T.

But just so you know, there are several trump categories...

Gay Male trumps everything
Incest/Taboo trumps everything but Gay Male

All others are equal.

 

[jehoram]

I'm pretty sure there was a "priority" list compiled by somebody, about what category takes precedence over other categories in "squink" factor, but I can't find it now. It should be a sticky in the "Author's Hangout."

I'll ask over there where the location of that list is.

 

[PennameWombat]

I'm pretty sure there was a "priority" list compiled by somebody, about what category takes precedence over other categories in "squink" factor, but I can't find it now. It should be a sticky in the "Author's Hangout."

I'll ask over there where the location of that list is.

Here is a list that seems to be a reasonably clear delineation of 'priority' categories (not by me, but I follow it):

Love Your Readers: Categories.

If it has incest, any incest, it goes in I/T. Even if it's a quickie on one page in a twenty page story... At least, that's what the article says. Unless it's Gay Male (like Zeb says..., although the article waffles, considers that Incest should trump, but, well, the zeitgeist here says otherwise...)

 

[PennameWombat]

I'm pretty sure there was a "priority" list compiled by somebody, about what category takes precedence over other categories in "squink" factor, but I can't find it now. It should be a sticky in the "Author's Hangout."

I'll ask over there where the location of that list is.

"Squick" is the usual term.

 

[jehoram]

"Squick" is the usual term.

I've always heard "squink." But I expect it's the sort of regional variation you'll find in any words that don't show up in a standard dictionary.

 

[GCStargazer]

Thanks for all the follow-up replies! There was some good stuff here, I appreciate it!

 

[Athalia]

Here is a list that seems to be a reasonably clear delineation of 'priority' categories (not by me, but I follow it):

Love Your Readers: Categories.

If it has incest, any incest, it goes in I/T. Even if it's a quickie on one page in a twenty page story... At least, that's what the article says. Unless it's Gay Male (like Zeb says..., although the article waffles, considers that Incest should trump, but, well, the zeitgeist here says otherwise...)

I agree that the URL for that thread should be in the "Stickies" section of AH.