Questions about whether a concept breaks TOS

[CaryJanJunior]

I am planning to write a story involving spirits, which would be essentially manifestations of concepts.

Part of their depictions would be that they sexfight, and the loser dissolves into thin air while the winner does something with the energy they absorb from this.

I am not sure whether this doesn't violate the no snuff rule, however. The spirits are not sapient, and not truly alive, but I was intending on having them have some form of personality, which could, arguably, make them human enough for this to be a problem.

Similarly, there is no blood or bodies or violence, but dissolving would probably imply a death.

If the above described setup would break TOS, would altering it to the spirits not dissolving entirely, but fading into temporary non-existence while they accrete new energy and return with their memories intact be enough to avoid breaking TOS?

 

[TheLobster]

The content rule is about sexualizing death, not merely death being present in the work. Unless you manage to find a way to sexualize the obliteration of non-corporeal, ephemeral and abstract spirits -- an impressive feat if you do -- I don't think you have much to worry about

 

[EmilyMiller]

I had a vampire mistakenly bite my angel character mid-orgasm and (to borrow from Buffy) get dusted. The angel and her demon girlfriend had dressed up as each other for Halloween.

 

[CaryJanJunior]

The content rule is about sexualizing death, not merely death being present in the work. Unless you manage to find a way to sexualize the obliteration of non-corporeal, ephemeral and abstract spirits -- an impressive feat if you do -- I don't think you have much to worry about

Well, it would happen as a consequence of losing a sexfight - that is, a contest to outfuck the other party. I might have not quite conveyed that while they represent those concepts, they take humanoid forms to interact with humans and each other.

I fear it could be counted as snuff the same way a setup where two women trib and the one to cum first dies would obviously be snuff. The reason it might not be snuff in my case is I am not sure where exactly the lines for 'death' and 'person' are.

 

[Djmac1031]

I think you'll be fine.

 

[CaryJanJunior]

I think you'll be fine.

Okay, thank you for the feedback.

 

[Voboy]

I think I've done a story or two where the character "goes away" after immediately fucking some sort of demon, though I think I make it explicit that their death is not permanent.

One of my favorite writers here did a story you can take a look at, some years ago, that might help you see how to do this in a way that comports with the site's guidelines. But I think you'll be okay.

 

[Erozetta]

I'd argue you can't kill what's not corporeal.

 

[TheLobster]

I'd argue you can't kill what's not corporeal.

Or to quote South Park, "How can you kill that which has no life?"

 

[SimonDoom]

Probably OK. I think the key is not to sexualize the killing of a person, and it doesn't sound like your story does that.

I wrote and published a story that featured a ritual killing as the climax of the story, and I thought long and hard about how to do it to meet the site's standards. I seem to have succeeded with that.

 

[NotWise]

I think you'll be OK. As you described it, the spirits aren't very different from a masturbatory fantasy that vanishes when it's all done.